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Mindfield
Premium
join:2002-02-28
Andover, MA
| Better methods are out there
Valve should adopt bittorrent, or something similar, for their broadband distribution. With a 750mbps connection initially seeding the file, then clients uploading the parts they have and eventually becoming a seed themselves for a while, the distribution would go a lot smoother IMO and the effective bandwidth would be huge. With the community that Valve has, bittorrent would give the users a chance to give back and get the file quicker.
It's a shame that bittorrent is seen as just a p2p tool to infringe copyrights and not an efficient distribution method. Because no matter what size pipe you have, if enough people try to download a file, it is going to choke. Or you can pay whatever ridiculous amount places like fileplanet are charging.
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Speedy8
Premium
join:2002-08-22
Alliance, OH
clubs:
| I agree. I wish companies would finally realize that bit torrent type of distribution is the way to go. In the end they use less bandwidth and people get files faster, why not do it? The only problem is most people upload slower than dl, but so what? It's going to be faster if anything. If we all had synchronus connections it would be a no brainer for sure. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | They have bit torrent servers now at »www.steampowered.com/getsteamnow.htm
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