Saw this on /. a couple days back and noticed that the peer efficiency being reported by Bittorrent in this study is upwards of 96%. Not bad! Does anyone read Norwegian, and can they determine what the (harmonic) average download speed was for S3 versus Bittorrent?
-david > FrostPaw writes > > "An experiment was conducted recently by Norwegian broadcasting > company NRK involving the release of the series 'Nordkalotten 365' (a > wildlife program) in a DRM free format using BitTorrent. One of the > broadcasters has posted the approximate figures for the overall > distribution costs, and discussed his reasons for doing so. Their > estimated cost for using Amazon S3 to offer the files through > HTTP/FTP/etc. come to approximately 41,000 NOK (about $8,000 US). > However, when using the Amazon servers as the originating seed and > utilizing BitTorrent, their total cost for distribution of the entire > project, thanks to generous seeds, would amount to approximately > 1,700 NOK. The post with the original figures is available only in > Norwegian." _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
