statistically, their local latency will always be lower than their international latency.
On average. rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug On Wednesday 03 December 2008 11:39:44 Hari Kurup wrote: > On 12/3/08 10:13 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:- > > > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 16:06:59 Hari Kurup wrote: > >> That would be second I think. First would be the kind of > >> bandwidth two fellows on the same ISP have between > >> themselves. > > > > The benefit of using a local seed is improved performance > > through reduced latency. > > > > Without a local exchange point, traffic is switched through > > some foreign country (take your pick). This increases the > > bandwidth cost of ISP's, who's only recourse of recovery is > > to pass this cost along to their customers. > > > > Adding in the cost of leasing last mile, as well as the > > 1,200ms latency for ISP A on Luwum Street to reach ISP B on > > Kampala Road, I'd rather have a 128Kbps at home with a seed > > reachable over the exchange point, because any packet loss > > will be quickly addressed (and not be as severely > > amplified) with the reduced latency. > > My scenario was looking at users A and B both on ISP X trying to share > files via bit torrent. Their traffic is locally switched but each of > their last miles is capped on a small pipe. Local latency between them > could be more than the 1200ms depending on what else they are using > their pipes for (email, browsing, etc.) > > So p4p as opposed to p2p is not a one size fits all solution. > > -- > Hari > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
