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Actually it was a comment questioning why they don't use torrents to provide their services. And also pointing out that p2p based solutions somehow outperform t

Actually it was a comment questioning why they don't use torrents to provide their services. And also pointing out that p2p based solutions somehow outperform theirs in many cases (for me, not US based so the net neutrality stuff is maybe not relevant). Anyway sorry I was too silly and didn't clarify these points.

Klathmon 9y ago
P2P has traditionally not worked out well for companies. Even recently Microsoft tried it for updates, and people were quite angry. I honestly don't see a situation where someone would prefer to use their own bandwidth for a paid service rather than having a server do the heavy lifting. Either as the provider, or the consumer.
- inciampati 9y ago
  This is true, and I wonder if someone has done an analysis of the many failures. It is impressive that something which works so well in the wild provides so little benefit when tamed. Maybe Netflix or a streaming service could pay for bytes uploaded. Abuse would be difficult to mitigate but in principle this would encourage peers to provide the company's service to the network.
- will4274 9y ago
  > people were quite angry. I don't think this is true. Some enterprises were concerned about the security aspects and asked for greater controls, which Microsoft provided, but Windows 10 has not removed P2P updates, AFAIK.
  - PuffinBlue 9y ago
    It has not but I think it's not enabled by default now, and you can declare you want it but limit to a certain amount if on a metered connection, or just turn it on fully. I think it was the metered connection bit people were annoyed about, especially those who were tethering to their phones and then it downloaded/shared a huge amount of data.
    - will4274 9y ago
      > I think it's not enabled by default now This is easy enough to check with a simple Google search. (It's still enabled by default).

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Actually it was a comment questioning why they don't use torrents to provide their services. And also pointing out that p2p based solutions somehow outperform t

by inciampati 9y ago

Klathmon 9y ago
P2P has traditionally not worked out well for companies. Even recently Microsoft tried it for updates, and people were quite angry. I honestly don't see a situation where someone would prefer to use their own bandwidth for a paid service rather than having a server do the heavy lifting. Either as the provider, or the consumer.
- inciampati 9y ago
  This is true, and I wonder if someone has done an analysis of the many failures. It is impressive that something which works so well in the wild provides so little benefit when tamed. Maybe Netflix or a streaming service could pay for bytes uploaded. Abuse would be difficult to mitigate but in principle this would encourage peers to provide the company's service to the network.
- will4274 9y ago
  > people were quite angry. I don't think this is true. Some enterprises were concerned about the security aspects and asked for greater controls, which Microsoft provided, but Windows 10 has not removed P2P updates, AFAIK.
  - PuffinBlue 9y ago
    It has not but I think it's not enabled by default now, and you can declare you want it but limit to a certain amount if on a metered connection, or just turn it on fully. I think it was the metered connection bit people were annoyed about, especially those who were tethering to their phones and then it downloaded/shared a huge amount of data.
    - will4274 9y ago
      > I think it's not enabled by default now This is easy enough to check with a simple Google search. (It's still enabled by default).