It'd be nice to be on a BT with 5000 seeds and 3 peers, but it's not realistic. Generally I allow my share ratio to get > 1 before I turn it off.
Im a big fan of BT :) if used right, its awesome.
I wonder about the scalability of BT from the tracker perspective. For example, I play World of Warcraft (yaay for Wine), and Blizzard uses BT for their patch system. I assume there are about a million people downloading a patch at a given time, and I typically get about 2kb/s whereas I get 200kb/s from many other torrent distributors.
Can anyone speculate whether this is a BT protocol problem where it can't deal with that many peers, or whether it is likely a tracker problem? I have never heard of anyone using BT on that large of a scale before (I think the most peers I have ever seen is around 800).
Just curious
Ian.
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