On 10/18/07, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder. Bittorrent seems to take a while to get rolling. That's no > big deal when you have one monster file lie a DVD ISO to pull in. But > individual packages can be as small as 10KB. Plus the overhead of > establishing a connection, etc. I wonder if bittorrent would be fast > enough with a lot of smaller files to justify itself.
That's inherent in the design of bittorrent. Its intended for larger downloads over many networks. Finding peers is one of its main jobs and if the peers aren't there, its gonna take a while. This is true for most p2p apps, but bittorrent usually ramps up very fast for most *popular* data. Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
