 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | Awful for many reasons, but this one irks me the most. "Cache Discovery Protocol", a.k.a. CDP.
CDP is an already-used acronym in the networking industry. Anyone who's familiar with Cisco Discovery Protocol will surely become irritated when some torrent kids start talking about "CDP".
Plus, "cache" is an ambiguous word as well. *sigh*
Someone will eventually come out with a BitTorrent alternative. It's pretty obvious BT is going downhill...
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| I hate to say this guys but there are a LOT OF SITES using bit torrent as a source of downloading. And that's NOT for illegal purposes actually for legal files and downloads such as patches and other things.
So throttling Bit torrent right now is stupid, and should not be done. |
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>Someone will eventually come out with a BitTorrent alternative. It's pretty obvious BT is going downhill...
I doubt there's an alternative. The whole reason BT is successful is because it is using ordinary users' upstream that normally they wouldn't use. BT is maxing out the upstream so what's the alternative? Downstream from major hosting sites, which is what we were doing before.
In order to do that, you still have to upload your file to a hosting site and you can't even do that easily. That's where I'm sitting right now, I have a website I'm trying to run and my cable upstream is garbage. |
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 IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK
2 edits | reply to koitsu
I doubt that most people really care about Cisco Discovery Protocol and it certainly won't be the only thing that shares an acronym. IGMP = Internet Gateway Message Protocol, Internet Group Management Protocol? If it really irks you get out more.
Cache is hardly an ambiguous word in this context, you may want to check out »www.cachelogic.com ? Peer to peer content caching? Been about for a while now in testing in the uk.
Oh and yes some sites do use Bittorrent to distribute content, because they don't want to pay to. End of the day why should ISPs be picking up the tab for sourcing their content? Yes users are paying their ISPs but it's another issue entirely whether they are paying them to distribute content to others.
Flat rate products are based around a large number of light users subsiding heavy ones, so those who are using a lot of bandwidth are not paying the full costs of their usage.
Bittorrent is sadly a major contributor to this in the upstream direction where cable bandwidth is weakest. |
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