Jason Wright wrote:
I'm not sure I agree with this. TCP does throttling already
What makes BitTorrent different from regular TCP connections is that you can have 200+ TCP BitTorrent connections acting as one huge "meta" connection to download a single resource. Even if TCP's congestion control mechanisms kick in to throttle down each individual TCP connection, the BitTorrent client will simply spawn more connections to make up for the lost bandwidth, until it saturates your link fully. This is why normal TCP congestion control doesn't actually control BitTorrent connections. It's really great for speedy downloads, but it clobbers other TCP connections, like the ability to check your gmail.
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