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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:42:34PM -0400, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: |
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> Note that bittorrent does not work very well for dialup users. The |
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> overhead ends up being twice as large or more than the payload. It |
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> also ends up blocking most other traffic. |
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> It generally helps for those with more bandwidth, of course, but |
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> something that does not open a couple of hundred sockets works |
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> better over straws. |
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A couple of hundred sockets may be too much for reliable download even for |
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some broadband users. For example, here Telefonica installs a Zyxel 643 |
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ADSL router, and its NAT table has a limit of 256 simultaneous entries with |
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a default 180 seconds timeout (yah, it sucks) |
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