Re: [tlug] Bittorrent Newbie

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> writes:

    Scott> Oddly enough, though it's supposed to be faster, I've
    Scott> always found it slower than standard downloads of ISOs.

No, it's *supposed* to be slower, because you're supposed to feed one
block for every one you receive.  This is going to cost a certain
amount of latency per block, which can be fairly high unless it's a
really popular torrent *right now*.  There's a paper on this at
bittorrent.com (IIRC, if you can't find it, ask).

Torrents will have much lower initial latency, though, because you
don't have to get a connection to the same site that all the other
slashdaughters are downloading from.



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