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Torrents don't work well in most of the world due to asymmetric upload/download speeds.
by dharmab 3y ago
Torrents don't work well in most of the world due to asymmetric upload/download speeds.
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- mcpackieh 3y agoTorrents handle most people leaching if at least a handful of people are seeding. Westerners with fat upload pipes can support everybody else. At a bit less than 5GB, this is the perfect candidate for a torrent. Small enough to reasonably seed to a high ratio, while so large that it apparently puts me over mega's transfer quota for my IP..
- hunter2_ 3y agoI'm not sure about upload specifically, but recent lists of countries sorted by average download speed puts a lot of non-Western countries (in the sense of lack of European influence, etc.) near the top of the list. But your point stands that the large pipes, wherever they are, can support the RoW.
- blueflow 3y agoLow upload speed doesn't matter if there are enough peers. I'd argue BitTorrent was designed with this limitation in mind.
- nly 3y agoDoesn't matter if you have a seeding ratio set of >=1