[79924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cost of doing business
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Apr 18 12:14:39 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504181729480.29505@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:13:38 -0400
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 18 Apr 2005, at 11:33, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>> I don't think that's true. I have seen bittorrent clients running on
>> machines that have good connectivity (>>typical North American
>> residential; say 100M access to a data centre on the east coast).
>> With only moderately-popular torrents (think fan movies like
>> fanimatrix or starship exeter, a week or so after the slashdot effect
>> has died down) such a client can easily seed at 10-20Mbit/s.
>
> Yes yes, it's of course technically possible. It's no problem to
> saturate a 100M either if you have a decent computer.
My point was not just that it was technically possible, but rather that
with active filesharing clients running it's something that a naive
user can easily do, today -- no future killer apps required.
Joe
