[94405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Jan 21 15:48:56 2007
In-Reply-To: <007501c73d94$5e4f06c0$6801a8c0@atlanta.polycom.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:40:04 -0500
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 21-Jan-2007, at 14:07, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Every torrent indexing site I'm aware of has RSS feeds for newly-
> added torrents, categorized many different ways. Any ISP that
> wanted to set up such a service could do so _today_ with _existing_
> tools. All that's missing is the budget and a go-ahead from the
> lawyers.
Yes, I know.
>> If anybody has tried this, I'd be interested to hear whether on-
>> net clients actually take advantage of the local monster seed, or
>> whether they persist in pulling data from elsewhere.
>
> [...] Do I have hard data? No. [...]
So, has anybody actually tried this?
Speculating about how clients might behave is easy, but real
experience is more interesting.
Joe
