On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
Aren't these speeds a relative notion, ie. dependent on where you are as a peer?
yes, which is why I said all these machines were locaed inside hosting DC's - which normally have good connectivity. One on the East coast US, one on the West Coast, one in Germany, one in London and the rest coming on at diff places.
What makes a major difference however is when there are a lot of people, even with lesser speeds, seeding at the same time.
Thinking of analogies, if one person throws a small stone at you, maybe you get a small bruise at worst. If a thousand do it at the same time you *die*, likely.
That is to say, thousands throwing packets your way all at once tend to negate a single-point bottleneck existing between you and any specific source off your ISPs network, if they tend to come from all different directions (different remote networks). 'Course if you live on a nasty cable provider (we'll leave them unnamed here) who feels it right to throttle you based on various usage statistics, you may only get hit by a few stones at once.