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Upstream: sending data. Downstream: receiving data. With HTTP and media streaming you send very little data ("I'd like this web page, please") and you receive
by beaumartinez 15y ago
Upstream: sending data. Downstream: receiving data.
With HTTP and media streaming you send very little data ("I'd like this web page, please") and you receive lots ("here's the entire content of the web page"). With BitTorrent you send lots of data (fragments of files to other peers) and you receive lots (the fragments of files you're missing).
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- koenigdavidmj 15y agoWith HTTP you still send an ACK for every incoming packet. A friend of mine at university was the technically minded person at his fraternity, and he found that just the outgoing ACK:s were saturating the DSL line. Media streaming might be done over UDP, depending on the protocol, which should alleviate this a bit.
- Dylan16807 15y agoYou don't need an ACK for every incoming packet. But even if you send that many you're looking at 40-64 bytes out per 1400+ bytes in.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoAnd now I have my stupid typo all over the Internet under my real name. How embarrassing. (Worse---I work for a network appliances company!)