BITS can do peer-to-peer and I know it can do the multiple-master thing; but I can't claim to be anything close to an expert on it.
I do know that it has mucho logic designed to not impact "user experience" while file transfers are ongoing. DFS R2 is a BITS server. It can be securely exposed (so say the white papers), but I've never done it. I'm not qualified to compare BITS to BT, but I think it's a "neato" technology to have built-in to Windows. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > MSFT has its own technology for this "Background Intelligent Transfer > Service" - BITS. Oh! I forgot about BITS. And doesn't BITS in Vista SP1 have the capability of doing peer-to-peer file sharing, just like BitTorrent does? Microsoft could release a stand-alone BITS client to let people without Vista download big things like this Win 7 Beta. They could even offer a stand-alone BITS *server* for other companies to use. That would be downright useful. (Just to tie in to a previous topic in this thread: But instead of that, Vista gives us transparent window trim.) > More than likely, the assumption is that most folks are not going > to want to wait for a couple of days while BITS transfers huge > files in the background. BitTorrent can generally deliver a 650 MB CD image in around ten minutes on my nuttin' special cable Internet feed. And unlike conventional file transfer methods, the more people downloading a torrent at once, the *faster* it goes. I dunno if BITS was intended for that kind of massive share swarm, high-speed transfer though. BitTorrent has caused a lot of cheap routers and network drivers to fail under the load it can generate. Trying to use BITS that way might violate the design assumption. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
