No, I mean 96% of bytes were downloaded from peers rather than from the S3 seed.
Though the peer connectivity question is interesting as well. -david Frank W. Miller wrote: > > Meaning 96% successful NAT traversal? I'd luv to have a copy of the study > if and when its translated to English. > > Thanks, > FM > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barrett > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:35 PM > To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks > Subject: [p2p-hackers] Norwegian Bittorrent Study > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
