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Making BitTorrent Clients Prioritize By Geography?

Posted by timothy on from the hey-you're-blocking-my-bandwidth dept.

Daengbo writes "While I live in S.Korea and have virtually unlimited bandwidth in and out of the country, not all my Asian friends are so lucky. Many of the SE Asian and African countries have small international pipes. Even when a user has a high-speed local connection, downloads from abroad will trickle in. Bittorrent clients apparently don't prioritize other users on the same ISP or at least in the same country. Why is that? Is it difficult to manage? If I were to write a plug-in for, say, Deluge, what hurdles would I be likely to come across? If this functionality is available in other clients or through plug-ins, please chime in."

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  1. Bit Torrents? by SQL_SAM · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I havent used them in years, always thought there were better alternatives - but you might have to pay (news groups). I guess that is the whole issue isnt it? Gotta be free!!

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  2. download bandwith in South Korea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A little bit off topic, but I thought I'd add a little bit about download speeds. It's not too bad here in Canada, I can get 200-300 KB/sec on a good torrent. When they talk about virtually unlimited bandwith in South Korea, they aren't joking - I have a friend living there and if I remember correctly he can get 1.5-2 MB/sec - that means a 700 MB movie can be downloaded in under 10 minutes. That's pretty amazing when you think about it!