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It also leads to more balance between upload/download. This is perhaps less good on typical broadband which usually has a much higher bandwidth for downloads bu
by dan-robertson 8y ago
It also leads to more balance between upload/download. This is perhaps less good on typical broadband which usually has a much higher bandwidth for downloads but a typical datacentre will have a much greater upload demand to download (there’s a reason that downloading to an aws box is much cheaper than uploading).
On the other hand, big networks can be more efficient by caching things near the edge so that the total “bit miles” (I.e. the total over all packets sent of distance traveled * bits of data) are decreased.
- jjeaff 8y agoI'd say BitTorrent is likely just as efficient or much more so at keeping distances short. At least, it optimizes by taking the fastest available peers. Your typical big torrent file could have thousands of peers. That's more endpoints than most any other big CDN and more likely to have a few peers really close to you. Heck, it could even download from someone on your local network if they happened to be serving up the file you are looking for.