[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:15:43PM +0300, sammy ominsky wrote:
> No, that's cheating.  I mean staying attached to torrents but not  
> active until needed.  I can literally keep 200 torrents open and not  
> have it consume massive amounts of RAM or bandwidth.

That's the one fundemental flaw of BitTorrent. It's the same flaw
that is in sendmail and people have been trying to fix (in sendmail) for 
almost 20 years.

The procotol assumes people are honest. The tracker regulates the amount
of connections (which controls the amount of incoming data) based upon
your upload speed. HOWEVER, it only can tell how much you are uploading
from information you supply.

There is one Windows client that is sharware. If you pay the fee, it 
(among other things) improves your download speeds tremendously. It
does so by reporting high (false) upload speeds to the tracker.

I'm sure there are hacks for all of the popular clients to do this, but
I'm not interested in them, so I haven't looked. 

I've found in public trackers, that increasing upload speed only makes things 
that are popular faster, but not things that are not. The torrents with 
one seeder and 3 or for leechers is not going to go quickly no matter
what you do. Nor will the one where the only seeder is online a few
hours a day. 

I've got two of those running now. Eventually I'll get them. :-)

I usually watch TV shows the next afternoon after being broadcast. Considering
many of them have not even been seen on the left coast when I get up
in the morning, it's not that bad. :-)

Geoff.

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