NEW features— we NEED

[leahman@knology.net]

Okay— when I send an E-mail
it MIGHT go to a thousand people - at the SAME time.

So— WHY can't the data from my file
be headed to MORE THAN ONE person ?

THIS is the reason— we get BUMPED
when we try to download. And why the download
IS SLOW.

WHEN there are
128 copies of the same file—
it oughta download to my computer -at at least
400kps— if not 1,500kps.

Also— will the nasty person who keeps putting up movies
LABELED WITH THE WRONG MOVIE TITLE—
Please STOP IT ? ? ?

[arne_bab]

You know, download speed on the network is limited by the total upload speed of those who have the file.

If you try to download from 120 people, but at the same time 500 other people try to download from those, the upload speed of those 120 people gets divided between the 500 downloaders, so every downloader gets only a fraction of the upload speed of the uploaders. That is why sharing files is so important.

Besides: If you have a provider which supports multicast, your data might go to more than one person at the same time. Sadly those are scarce.

An easieer answer is to get more people to share files.

And that E-Mail also doesn't go to thousands of people at the same time without effort. Instead the Mailservers exchange them, and they often get sent a thousand times, not only one time. The only exception is, when all receivers use the same provider, but even then all of those have to download the Mail individually. As mailsender you just use the capacities of a Mailserver, which has all the work to do, while you have almost none. In p2p Apps, users do that work themselves, and no mailserver would be able to serve the sheer volume of traffic which is normal in p2p-networks.

At least no private server I know about.

So try to get people to share, only then can everyone in the network get better download speeds.

[Morgwen]

Originally posted by leahman@knology.net
Okay— when I send an E-mail
it MIGHT go to a thousand people - at the SAME time.

So— WHY can't the data from my file
be headed to MORE THAN ONE person ?

Just compare the speed of your line and the speed of the line of your provider, look which other hardware your e-mail provider has and you have the anwser.

THIS is the reason— we get BUMPED
when we try to download. And why the download
IS SLOW.

No the reason is that you can´t compare P2P with downloading from big fast servers. Read a few articles about P2P.

WHEN there are
128 copies of the same file—
it oughta download to my computer -at at least
400kps— if not 1,500kps.

This prooves that you don´t know anything about P2P, do a little research before you come here and claim things that only exist in your dreams.

Morgwen

[arne_bab]

@Morgwen: Faster

[Morgwen]

I beat you several times so notice this vitory very well it won´t happen very soon again.

Morgwen

[arne_bab]

That remains to be seen (but I assume the chances are on your side, when I look at my timetable, and what i should have already done this evening )

And I'll remember this victory for sure... Maybe I should print this thread and tack it at my bedroom-wall