[95248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Tue Mar 13 12:44:28 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:35:09 +0000
From: Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
[...]
> "Ideally" that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of
> present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does
> not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out
> there which specifically *does not* share any of the data being downloaded
> (thus acting as a pure leeching client):
Yes, but if *everybody* did that, nobody would be uploading and thus there
would be nothing being downloaded.
