interesting case. happens here too. the best way to determine max speed of a connection is to use bittorrent for one of the most popular torrents for some time and look at the speed.
On 2009-Apr-18, at 06:51, Stig Meireles Johansen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Torrent isn't a very good transfer method for things which are not >> fairly popular as it has a fair amount of overhead. >> >> The wikimedia download site should be able to saturate your internet >> connection in any case… > > > But some ISP's throttle TCP-connections (either by design or by simple > oversubscription and random packet drops), so many small connections > *can* > yield a better result for the end user. And if you are so unlucky as > to > having a crappy connection from your country to the download-site, > maybe, > just maybe someone in your own country already has downloaded it and > is > willing to share the torrent... :) > > I can saturate my little 1M ADSL-link with torrent-downloads, but > forget > about getting throughput when it comes to HTTP-requests... if it's > in the > country, in close proximity and the server is willing, then > *maybe*.. but > else.. no way. > > Not everyone is very well connected, unfortunately... > > /Stigmj > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
