Regional differences in P2P

Sun Jul 18 06:53:35 UTC 2004

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, k claffy wrote:

> servent, it's not like the network figures out the available
> bandwidth to potential remote clients.  that's a pretty loose
> definition of intelligence, believing everything you hear from
> an end host :)

Well, if the p2p program gets chunks of data from all sources, anyone with
a faster uplink will complete faster and thus get more chunks (as the p2p
program requests new chunks from each peer as the previous one is
finished), and thus produce more traffic. Not much intelligence, just the
way they work.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se