Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:54:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Eric Smith"
Bittorrent doesn't help at all for things that
only a few (less than
about five) people are trying to download at the same time. FTP is
generally *more* efficient than bittorrent for that.
Agreed. When you have a small community who have interest in a BT
file and most of the interested people have picked it up already, you
can grow whiskers waiting for a seed to emerge. I've seen some
rather pitiful begging on the 'net for a seed for such-and-such a
file.
Sometimes you do find a seed, but he's got his upload throttled down
to something like 3Kb/second. It'd be faster to get the file via
Aldis lamp.
The idea behind BT is utilizing the power of a mob, er "swarm".
Three isn't a swarm.
Cheers,
Chuck