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From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: Caleb Shay <caleb@××××××××.com>
Cc: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:42:57
Message-Id: m3vfxgfv5x.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage by Caleb Shay
1 Note that bittorrent does not work very well for dialup users. The
2 overhead ends up being twice as large or more than the payload. It
3 also ends up blocking most other traffic.
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5 It generally helps for those with more bandwidth, of course, but
6 something that does not open a couple of hundred sockets works
7 better over straws.
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9 It will work well as a supplement to the staus quo,
10 but not so well as a replacement.
11
12 -JimC
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Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage Caleb Shay <caleb@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@×××××××.com>