said by espaeth:said by beatsnpieces:P2P saturates the download AND upload while HTTP only saturates the downstream. That is my understanding of it anyhow.
It's a combination of a few factors:
1) Spreading the traffic across several TCP connections (as a collective of many P2P clients, not just a single end node) can be slightly unfair with regards to other traffic using single TCP sessions.
2) With P2P more traffic is consumed than a straight HTTP download because you are uploading while downloading the content. Your role in the swarm causes your total bandwidth usage to be higher than just a straight download.
2) HTTP is a finite duration transfer, P2P approaches infinite. When you download something with HTTP, once you have the content the traffic is done. With P2P, not only do you upload while you are downloading, but if the client is left unattended it will continue seeding the content until the client is shutdown. This can lead to network utilization being several orders of magnitude greater than just a straight HTTP download of the same content.
Does the throttling to 30KBps actually limit any of these things?
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