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Yet both Microsoft and Blizzard have decided P2P file distribution is just fine and dandy to use for their customers. It seems the only downsides are a slight c
by StudentStuff 8y ago
Yet both Microsoft and Blizzard have decided P2P file distribution is just fine and dandy to use for their customers. It seems the only downsides are a slight complexity increase to handle torrent downloads for files that most of your customers need, with the upside that those same clients get their files faster thanks to the additional bandwidth gained using P2P tech like BitTorrent.
On the reliability side, you can easily include an HTTP web seed, though as long as the company offers the torrent on their fileserver, there isn't much benefit for doing that.
Windows 10 P2P Distribution for Updates: https://lifehacker.com/windows-10-uses-your-bandwidth-to-distribute-updates-d-1721091469 https://lifehacker.com/windows-10-uses-your-bandwidth-to-dis...
Blizzard/HTTP Web Seed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
- blibble 8y agoblizzard binned bittorrent in 2015 https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/16283439122 https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/16283439122
- StudentStuff 8y agoThat they did, but P2P distribution of files is still alive and well used in numerous industries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Adoption