Comparing FTP with Bittorrent is like comparing apples and oranges. And even that is even too modest to apply for your analysis of FTP and Bittorrent.
For starters, you cannot extrapolate that FTP is surperior to Bittorrent simply because you have experienced surperior transfer rates with FTP over bittorrent. You have to ask yourself, what kind of speeds would you get if the FTP site that you are transfering from were to be the seed a particular torrent, and that it was only seeding the file to a few clients.
Reversely, you also have to ask yourself what kind of performance you would get from each of those individual "ips" that you were connected with as peers when you were using bittorrent if they all ran FTP servers for you connect to?
Your arguments for claiming "bittorrent" not living up to the hype is not justified and poorly formed. Can I answer the questions that I posed? Not unless I do the exact same thing.
One thing can do is to perform a simple test of using clients such as Download Accelerator or GetRight, or Xi's NetworkConnect to purposely connect multiple times to a single URL but spread out the download. Observe the speed that you obtain by a single download stream vs the aggregate download streams of connecting multiple times to the same file. Most likely you would see that you obtained a much higher aggregate throughput when you hammered it in multiple streams.
Bittorrent is simliar in that it is attaching itself to multiple nodes in obtaining the single goal of a file. The problem what you may have experienced is perhaps the 'torrents' you are trying to acquire are not being seeded by sites that have a lot of through put and the clients that are part of that swarm are not very 'upload' friendly. Just because you see 150 peers that does not mean you have access to all 150 of those peers. Individually those peers can have different settings, and like most people, they probably tuend their bittorrent clients to not to occupy their entire upload stream and maybe with a maximum number of upload streams set to 2-4. With all these constraints in place, you cannot just plainly say that Bittorent sucks because if those 150 peers allowed for unlimited upload sreams with unlimited capacity to the best of their ability, I would safely say that you would much better performance than a single stream of a FTP.
Your argument for not setting the MTU or TCP windowing to optimize your other application to INCLUDE bittorrent is not justified. "Optimizing" in itself is to make compromises so that the available resources are utilized to the best of the abilities by those consume it. The fact that you don't want to include bittorrent in your suite of application is not optimizing at all. If you find a suitable MTU or TCP windowing setting that works for not just bittorrent but your "other" suite of application, that is truly optimizing. Simply ignoring it or even attacking the problem is not the best solution. Maybe the new settings will affect the other applications in some manner. But do you really need to optimize Gopher protocol? or telnet? if these were application protocols that somehow that took a hit? You don't know that, and I don't know that. Do you even know that FTP and SFTP would be affected?
Also, you claim that you can achieve speeds of 400KBps on your ftp download. This would mean that your ftp site has an upload capacity of at least 3.2768Mbps. With overhead, let's just say it has about 4Mbps. Last I checked, I have not seen many residential dsl or cable provider(s) that offer services that include a 4Mbps upload.
And no. I don't know what I am talking about because I don't have any certs. No CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE.
Anyone else have something to add to this? After all, I could be and probably wrong...:-( Though if someone would be willing to attack the aforementioned problem that would be great!
Umm... ok. Let's all just start seeding every linux distro bittorrent known to man. Oh wait.. wasn't Disney doing that thing with Movies-on-Demand? And oh... wait, wouldn't that also use a lot of bandwidth, too?
I don't think the Music Industry has a right to know that I like to order Bambi and watch it on Demand everday... for my kid sister:-)
I'm not sure why they discontinued the service. It was really cool. Nothing like running down the BT and knowing exactly when and where the BT is...:-) Maximize your nap time schedules...:-)
Actually, a few years ago when I was at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Transit had GPS units mounted on their buses which enabled the realtime display of the location of their buses. This was particularly neat because I could check at anytime from the website of where their buses were and I could run time my run to the bus stop. Unfortunately, they don't have this running on their site anymore... very sad:-/ Talk about 'big brother'.
You can encode your own movies on the PSP using the MSSW-IC2 software available from Sony. For any other accessories, you can visit here. You can find the 1GB Memory Stick there.
I still have my IBM 360MB Deskstar and WD Caviar 1GB drive from 1993 and 1995 respectively. These two drives were in the IBMDX2/66 Valuepoint that I bought when I went away to college (Virginia Tech) and the system still works, including these drives. IBM's hard drive division of course now is now under the Hitachi brand name, but my Western Digital Caviar..well still a Western Digital Caviar and it still kicks ass. Just not in a very high storage capacity sort of way.
Of course I have had my share of failures with the hard drive vendors in the article: Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate. All these vendors have always been very helpful, as long as your warranty is still valid. They will be more than happy to RMA your drive. Of course if you don't, then you're SOL.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said second program is a decoding program.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein said decoding program decodes MPEG data.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein said decoding program decodes ATRAC data.
Is it just me or didn't sony recently own up to the fact that ATRAC was a technology that no one used? And why is it they believe they can embed ATRAC audio along with MPEG? Seems kind of stupid.
Would you be referring to AllAdvantage.com?:-) I was one of those few individuals who got a couple hundred dollars from that. Yay! Too bad the checks stop coming in:-(
Before long, you will start seeing technology gangs being formed in prisons. They might be weak but they will gather in numbers and increase their percentage in the general population of the prisons.
Ok, I will probably get flamed or modded down, but I just wanted to point out some interesting facts.
Currently, the U.S. foreign policy is to support the One-China policy. Under this policy as supported by mainland China, whose government is a communist state. The U.S. as of October 29 as stated by Secretary of State Colin Powell that the U.S. is against the independence of Taiwan, whose goverment is a democratic state with free elections.
It is kind of ironic that the United States would 'liberate' Iraq, a nation ruled under tyranny to establish and promote demoracy, but support the foreign policies of a nation (China) whose main objective is to denounce democracy and free speech of a 'rogue' province/nation/state (Taiwan) which is already an established democratic state simply because China is good for business. Oh wait, I forgot, Iraq has oil and China also has oil reserves in Manchuria.
In one hand we claim to support democracy while in another we support the downfall of a nation who is already democratic and support its integration with a communist state.
Another interesting fact is if you visit CIA's website on Taiwan, from the drop down list, all the countries are listed in alphabetical order, except for Taiwan. It is listed last, behind Zimbabwe. Coincidence?
Just thought I would point out a few interesting things. Then again, I could be mistaken or misinformed.
Someone from AOL (I presume higher-ups) that uses craigslist posted the news last night about the layoffs at 10:05PM EST. You can see the original post here.
What makes a file legal vs illegal? If i rip an mp3 from my CD, encode it using old school encoders which no copyright information, no id3 or id3v2 tags, and it just so happen to be named "Britney Spears - Baby One More Time.mp3", how is a program going to know if that file is legal or illegal? It would be pretty bad if it deletes something that I created and spent time doing...even if I am a Britney lover and probably deserve to have that file deleted for being a Britney lover. But don't I have fair-use rights on my Britney Spears CD?
I will be honest that I did not read the article, but from just reading the blurb, it sounds like it's just 'TV Programs' being distributed on p2p networks, or in this bittorrent. Last time I checked, Red vs. Blue is already doing this by cycling their episodes from week to week to conserve bandwidth. Perhaps someone could correct me on this but I was just thinking this is already being done...
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Comparing FTP with Bittorrent is like comparing apples and oranges. And even that is even too modest to apply for your analysis of FTP and Bittorrent.
:-( Though if someone would be willing to attack the aforementioned problem that would be great!
For starters, you cannot extrapolate that FTP is surperior to Bittorrent simply because you have experienced surperior transfer rates with FTP over bittorrent. You have to ask yourself, what kind of speeds would you get if the FTP site that you are transfering from were to be the seed a particular torrent, and that it was only seeding the file to a few clients.
Reversely, you also have to ask yourself what kind of performance you would get from each of those individual "ips" that you were connected with as peers when you were using bittorrent if they all ran FTP servers for you connect to?
Your arguments for claiming "bittorrent" not living up to the hype is not justified and poorly formed. Can I answer the questions that I posed? Not unless I do the exact same thing.
One thing can do is to perform a simple test of using clients such as Download Accelerator or GetRight, or Xi's NetworkConnect to purposely connect multiple times to a single URL but spread out the download. Observe the speed that you obtain by a single download stream vs the aggregate download streams of connecting multiple times to the same file. Most likely you would see that you obtained a much higher aggregate throughput when you hammered it in multiple streams.
Bittorrent is simliar in that it is attaching itself to multiple nodes in obtaining the single goal of a file. The problem what you may have experienced is perhaps the 'torrents' you are trying to acquire are not being seeded by sites that have a lot of through put and the clients that are part of that swarm are not very 'upload' friendly. Just because you see 150 peers that does not mean you have access to all 150 of those peers. Individually those peers can have different settings, and like most people, they probably tuend their bittorrent clients to not to occupy their entire upload stream and maybe with a maximum number of upload streams set to 2-4. With all these constraints in place, you cannot just plainly say that Bittorent sucks because if those 150 peers allowed for unlimited upload sreams with unlimited capacity to the best of their ability, I would safely say that you would much better performance than a single stream of a FTP.
Your argument for not setting the MTU or TCP windowing to optimize your other application to INCLUDE bittorrent is not justified. "Optimizing" in itself is to make compromises so that the available resources are utilized to the best of the abilities by those consume it. The fact that you don't want to include bittorrent in your suite of application is not optimizing at all. If you find a suitable MTU or TCP windowing setting that works for not just bittorrent but your "other" suite of application, that is truly optimizing. Simply ignoring it or even attacking the problem is not the best solution. Maybe the new settings will affect the other applications in some manner. But do you really need to optimize Gopher protocol? or telnet? if these were application protocols that somehow that took a hit? You don't know that, and I don't know that. Do you even know that FTP and SFTP would be affected?
Also, you claim that you can achieve speeds of 400KBps on your ftp download. This would mean that your ftp site has an upload capacity of at least 3.2768Mbps. With overhead, let's just say it has about 4Mbps. Last I checked, I have not seen many residential dsl or cable provider(s) that offer services that include a 4Mbps upload.
And no. I don't know what I am talking about because I don't have any certs. No CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE.
Anyone else have something to add to this? After all, I could be and probably wrong...
"Show me."
Umm... ok. Let's all just start seeding every linux distro bittorrent known to man. Oh wait.. wasn't Disney doing that thing with Movies-on-Demand? And oh... wait, wouldn't that also use a lot of bandwidth, too?
:-)
I don't think the Music Industry has a right to know that I like to order Bambi and watch it on Demand everday... for my kid sister
I'm not sure why they discontinued the service. It was really cool. Nothing like running down the BT and knowing exactly when and where the BT is... :-) Maximize your nap time schedules... :-)
Actually, a few years ago when I was at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Transit had GPS units mounted on their buses which enabled the realtime display of the location of their buses. This was particularly neat because I could check at anytime from the website of where their buses were and I could run time my run to the bus stop. Unfortunately, they don't have this running on their site anymore... very sad :-/ Talk about 'big brother'.
I like china-man. Because I am one.
Perhaps he should be a chinaman and learn how to repair an abacaus before he try his hand on a real computer that plugs into the wall. :-)
:-/
Ok ok... I'm going to modded down...
You can encode your own movies on the PSP using the MSSW-IC2 software available from Sony. For any other accessories, you can visit here. You can find the 1GB Memory Stick there.
I still have my IBM 360MB Deskstar and WD Caviar 1GB drive from 1993 and 1995 respectively. These two drives were in the IBMDX2/66 Valuepoint that I bought when I went away to college (Virginia Tech) and the system still works, including these drives. IBM's hard drive division of course now is now under the Hitachi brand name, but my Western Digital Caviar..well still a Western Digital Caviar and it still kicks ass. Just not in a very high storage capacity sort of way.
Of course I have had my share of failures with the hard drive vendors in the article: Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate. All these vendors have always been very helpful, as long as your warranty is still valid. They will be more than happy to RMA your drive. Of course if you don't, then you're SOL.
Windows 3.11 for workgroups running TCP/IP and NCSA Mosaic. :-)
Below is a snippet from the patent itself:
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said second program is a decoding program.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein said decoding program decodes MPEG data.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein said decoding program decodes ATRAC data.
Is it just me or didn't sony recently own up to the fact that ATRAC was a technology that no one used? And why is it they believe they can embed ATRAC audio along with MPEG? Seems kind of stupid.
Would you be referring to AllAdvantage.com? :-) I was one of those few individuals who got a couple hundred dollars from that. Yay! Too bad the checks stop coming in :-(
Found crsnic referral to whois.melbourneit.com.
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Expiry Date.......... 2006-04-23
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Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Las Vegas
Organisation Address. 89123
Organisation Address. NV
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... na vanessa Miranda
Admin Address........ 1010 Grand Cerritos Ave
Admin Address........
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Admin Address........ 89123
Admin Address........ NV
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... jzoh@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... +44.702413697
Admin Fax............ +44.7026413697
Tech Name............ Domain Admin
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Tech Address.........
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Tech Email........... admin@powerhost.co.uk
Tech Phone........... +44.2082496081
Tech Fax............. +44.2082496076
Name Server.......... ns1.ukdnsservers.co.uk
Name Server.......... ns2.ukdnsservers.co.uk
now that you know the email address...spam away!
Before long, you will start seeing technology gangs being formed in prisons. They might be weak but they will gather in numbers and increase their percentage in the general population of the prisons.
I am using XP with no service pack and still on IE ver: 6.0.2600.0000.xpclient.010817-1148 and the exploit did not work... :-/
:-(
boohoo for me
A history of warezing in mp3 format that will educate you youngster the history of warez and consequences there of.
Check it out here. The warez song...ahh...the good old western days of the internet...
Ok, I will probably get flamed or modded down, but I just wanted to point out some interesting facts.
Currently, the U.S. foreign policy is to support the One-China policy. Under this policy as supported by mainland China, whose government is a communist state. The U.S. as of October 29 as stated by Secretary of State Colin Powell that the U.S. is against the independence of Taiwan, whose goverment is a democratic state with free elections.
It is kind of ironic that the United States would 'liberate' Iraq, a nation ruled under tyranny to establish and promote demoracy, but support the foreign policies of a nation (China) whose main objective is to denounce democracy and free speech of a 'rogue' province/nation/state (Taiwan) which is already an established democratic state simply because China is good for business. Oh wait, I forgot, Iraq has oil and China also has oil reserves in Manchuria.
In one hand we claim to support democracy while in another we support the downfall of a nation who is already democratic and support its integration with a communist state.
Another interesting fact is if you visit CIA's website on Taiwan, from the drop down list, all the countries are listed in alphabetical order, except for Taiwan. It is listed last, behind Zimbabwe. Coincidence?
Just thought I would point out a few interesting things. Then again, I could be mistaken or misinformed.
Someone from AOL (I presume higher-ups) that uses craigslist posted the news last night about the layoffs at 10:05PM EST. You can see the original post here.
Doh! I still need to get a PII 450 to install into my dual 440GX board. I hope I will get one in time!
Is it just me (perhaps I am old) but are these guys playing too much Altered Beasts on their spare time? :-)
Yeah, I'm off topic but the title of the article just lend itself to this question.
What makes a file legal vs illegal? If i rip an mp3 from my CD, encode it using old school encoders which no copyright information, no id3 or id3v2 tags, and it just so happen to be named "Britney Spears - Baby One More Time.mp3", how is a program going to know if that file is legal or illegal? It would be pretty bad if it deletes something that I created and spent time doing...even if I am a Britney lover and probably deserve to have that file deleted for being a Britney lover. But don't I have fair-use rights on my Britney Spears CD?
You can read some sample chapters here. Just use your favorite archiving application and acrobat reader(neither included).
Read here...
I just heard the free track from the new soundtrack for Halo 2 and it sounds pretty cool. Download here.
I will be honest that I did not read the article, but from just reading the blurb, it sounds like it's just 'TV Programs' being distributed on p2p networks, or in this bittorrent. Last time I checked, Red vs. Blue is already doing this by cycling their episodes from week to week to conserve bandwidth. Perhaps someone could correct me on this but I was just thinking this is already being done...