interesting case. happens here too. the best way to determine max
speed of a connection is to use bittorrent for one of the most popular
torrents for some time and look at the speed.
On 2009-Apr-18, at 06:51, Stig Meireles Johansen wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Torrent isn't a very good transfer method for
things which are not
fairly popular as it has a fair amount of overhead.
The wikimedia download site should be able to saturate your internet
connection in any caseā¦
But some ISP's throttle TCP-connections (either by design or by simple
oversubscription and random packet drops), so many small connections
*can*
yield a better result for the end user. And if you are so unlucky as
to
having a crappy connection from your country to the download-site,
maybe,
just maybe someone in your own country already has downloaded it and
is
willing to share the torrent... :)
I can saturate my little 1M ADSL-link with torrent-downloads, but
forget
about getting throughput when it comes to HTTP-requests... if it's
in the
country, in close proximity and the server is willing, then
*maybe*.. but
else.. no way.
Not everyone is very well connected, unfortunately...
/Stigmj
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