Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released

wintermute1974 writes "After sitting at a stable release of 3.4.2 since last spring, Bram Cohen's official BitTorrent client has been upgraded to version 4. In addition to its existing, rock-steady functionality, BitTorrent now sports a new queue-based UI. The revision details are on the BitTorrent site. Packets are now marked as bulk data too, which is significant considering that about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data."

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Fast internets... and packet flags

[Gopal.V]

> I'm interested to see where this'll go-- will ISPs absolutely choke 'bulk data' packets and drive folks into using older or fringe BT clients to get faster downloads?

Also already Layer7 Firewalls can classify and demote packets... but they are a lot more CPU expensive. If I were a sysadmin, this would run on all packets just to classify outbound traffic. (would be less expensive than a proxy, I think).

About Speed and ISPs. I don't know how often I say this. "What do you mean by FAST internet". I was talking with my sister and she was complaining how the asianet net connection was slower than the previous dialup. For my sister, "fast" internet means that Yahoo Mail shows up quickly. Being the gullible geek, I booted up the box with a knoppix I had handy and looked into the network. Ended up increasing positive DNS TTL - to get internet "FAST" :).