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. -- Bill