From: Han Holl <han.holl@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T22:41:28+09:00
Subject: Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell...

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On 9/28/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Well, honestly, BitTorrent requires that there be continuous interest in
> the files being torrented. Unless the files are well seeded and/or
> downloaded often, BitTorrent downloads will often be much slower than
> simple FTP downloads with round-robin mirrors as have been set up for
> RubyForge.
>
> Oh, I didn't know that. I my naivety I thought that if 4 servers were all
continuously offering these bittorent files, simple FTP download speed woul=
d
be the lower boundary.
Apparently there is more overhead in the bittorrent protocol than I thought=
.

Thanks,

Han Holl

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