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Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
From: Peter Corlett <abuse () cabal org uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:35:09 +0000
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...]
"Ideally" that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out there which specifically *does not* share any of the data being downloaded (thus acting as a pure leeching client):
Yes, but if *everybody* did that, nobody would be uploading and thus there would be nothing being downloaded.
Current thread:
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd), (continued)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Todd Vierling (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Chris L. Morrow (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Roland Dobbins (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Chris L. Morrow (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) David Meyer (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Matthew F. Ringel (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Roland Dobbins (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Chris L. Morrow (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Todd Vierling (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Peter Corlett (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Jeremy Chadwick (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Peter Corlett (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Joe Abley (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Roland Dobbins (Mar 13)
- RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Mills, Charles (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Joe Abley (Mar 13)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Todd Vierling (Mar 13)
- RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Bora Akyol (Mar 14)
- Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Roland Dobbins (Mar 14)
- NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT) Todd Christell (Mar 14)
- Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT) Justin M. Streiner (Mar 14)
- Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT) Simon Lyall (Mar 14)