Re: Bittorrent in a gaming cafe

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 06:51:03 -0000, uptime_steve
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Secondly, it seems the download rate of the files diminish quite
> rapidly.  we're using a 100mbit network, and get transfer speeds
> (using normal windows copy) of about 7meg / sec.  using bittorrent to
> copy a file (just 1 seed and no other peers) started off at a healthy
> 7meg a second, but as the file went on, the speed slowly went down and
> down.  w hat took 7 minutes using windows copy ultimately took half an
> hour using bittorrent.  it scaled well though, obviously, taking about
> 35mins to 5 machines at once.  this is for a file a little over 1gb in
> size.  

Are you comparing apples to apples here?  That is, it sounds like you
compared the speed of windows shares using just one client getting the
file from the server to the speed of bittorrent copying it to 5
clients.  Perhaps bittorrent seems slower on one machine but is faster
for the whole lab?

Greg


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