Comments on: ISP Friendly BitTorrent Tracker Doubles Download Speeds

By: pingo

pingo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:51:38 +0000

In the article a number of things are simplified not to confuse the not so tech sawy user, but as some of the comments point out there’s a lot more to make this a stable P2P network than just looking at your closest neighbors (for instance we give each Bittorrent a _mix_ of local and random peers to ensure both better download speeds and a robust network)
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By: zoom

zoom — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:07:03 +0000

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By: Anti-stupidity

Anti-stupidity — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:58:35 +0000

Stop with the crap, this will be effective if there are a lot of seeders, but every time, every torrent begin with only one, so there is nothing revolution that i see, more over you can do this with GeoIP database and a few lines. I would say hype to the sky for no reason. Mapping the internet, to find the closest peer????? This is like re-inventing the wheel.

By: Bittorrent downloads may get faster - Internet - City-Data Forum

Bittorrent downloads may get faster - Internet - City-Data Forum — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:59:49 +0000

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By: MHammett

MHammett — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:18:02 +0000

I don’t know the protocol, but I’m sure that it will still work with clients across the world, it’ll just prefer those closer to you.

Very few devices can do true geo, which isn’t what they’re trying to do… since geo has minimal bearing on network performance. Most existing geo methods don’t get much better than what country you’re in.

A Comcast user in Chicago probably has a better connection to a Comcast user in Seattle than the AT&T user in Chicago.

People, you will never be anonymous on the Internet, so give it up. It’s impossible. Think of a letter. Someone mails it to your house, you get caught. You give them your friend’s address and he hands it to you. Your friend gets caught. How many friends do you think it’ll take before none will let you have letters mailed to their house? I’m not saying that privacy is a bad thing, but it is an impossibility when you are receiving something… unless you’re /dev/null.

It also requires 0 ISP involvement.

By: MHammett

MHammett — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:32:39 +0000

Am I a Torrent user? On occasion.

Am I an ISP? Yes.

Most if not all of the ISPs aren’t around to bork you in the bum. There are immense financial and technical reasons why P2P is throttled. Some are more aggressive, but something that benefits both sides is a good thing.

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Links 25/08/2009: CentOS 4.8, UK Concedes to MAFIAA | Boycott Novell — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:08:52 +0000

[...] ISP Friendly BitTorrent Tracker Doubles Download Speeds A new Open Source BitTorrent tracker set to be released in September promises to boost download speeds by up to 150% and decrease the load BitTorrent users put on ISP networks by 20 to 50 percent. Based on the widely used OpenTracker software, the new BitTorrent tracker aims to overcome many of BitTorrent’s current limitations. [...]

By: makin's posterous - Home

makin's posterous - Home — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:15:45 +0000

[...] Since it was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, very few changes have been made to the way BitTorrent works. It was a revolutionary invention and to date it is by far the most effective way to transfer large files online. However, BitTorrent does have its limitations.Source:http://torrentfreak.com/isp-friendly-bittorrent-tracker-doubles-download-speeds-090823/ [...]