Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>It can give better effective bandwidth for you on the download by
>>getting data from a number of peers rather than from a single server
>>with limited IO capacity and bandwidth. It is also good form to
>
>leave
>
>>your client open after the download finishes to "give back" to the
>>community by sharing your bandwidth.
>
>Umm, lessee if I understand correctly. (The figures below are the
>actual rates wget obtained for me when I downloaded the FC4 CD
>ISOs.)
Seems it would depend on the number of peers operating, their aggregate
BW vs that available from a single dedicated server, your ISP's
limitations, the particular routing you are getting, load on the
server, .......
The operative word is "can" - YMMV.
Phil
As I said, my ADSL modem reports downstream connectivity at
894 Kbps or so. That corresponds to 110 KBps or so. I'm
actually getting 60-70 KBps download rate. That's pretty
much saturation, I think. I don't see how using more than
one source would increase the download rate, when my modem
is already just about saturated.
You didn't actually address whether my understanding be
correct.
Mike
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