Comments on: Evolution of the Bittorrent to mainstream market http://news.techwhack.com/1633-evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market News from the Tech and IT World Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Niranjan http://news.techwhack.com/1633-evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market#comment-2805 Niranjan Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:17:12 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/1633/evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market/#comment-2805 Ok, I promise, this is going to be the last comment... Traditionally, when a file is to be downloaded... -Initial search is broadcast to all clients -A list of having the file is built -Downloading starts from few selected clients -Now, till the file is downloaded, further communication is only with these selected clients. this means the network is no longer jammed with protocol packets. Contrast this with BitTorrent... -It searches and builds a list of clients having the requested chunk which is usually of size 128kb+ -So if a file is of n chunks, this protocol packets keep jamming the network n times till the download finishes. So, i wonder, if this overhead is justified. Ok, I promise, this is going to be the last comment…

Traditionally, when a file is to be downloaded…
-Initial search is broadcast to all clients
-A list of having the file is built
-Downloading starts from few selected clients
-Now, till the file is downloaded, further communication is only with these selected clients. this means the network is no longer jammed with protocol packets.

Contrast this with BitTorrent…
-It searches and builds a list of clients having the requested chunk which is usually of size 128kb+
-So if a file is of n chunks, this protocol packets keep jamming the network n times till the download finishes.

So, i wonder, if this overhead is justified.

]]> By: Niranjan http://news.techwhack.com/1633-evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market#comment-2804 Niranjan Fri, 05 Aug 2005 07:58:41 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/1633/evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market/#comment-2804 One more comment... Seeing the files available for download in sizes GB [GigaByte] common, I belive we can bid farewell to the good old cd's... :) One more comment…
Seeing the files available for download in sizes GB [GigaByte] common, I belive we can bid farewell to the good old cd’s… :)

]]> By: Niranjan http://news.techwhack.com/1633-evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market#comment-2803 Niranjan Fri, 05 Aug 2005 07:39:08 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/1633/evolution-of-the-bittorrent-to-mainstream-market/#comment-2803 Nice article... The article does not talk about the disadvantages of the BitTorrent protocol: It downloads/request each chunk of file from 5 sources and often ends up with around 5% of file size as discarded data :(( : i was just wondering is it justifiable? Nice article…
The article does not talk about the disadvantages of the BitTorrent protocol: It downloads/request each chunk of file from 5 sources and often ends up with around 5% of file size as discarded data :(( : i was just wondering is it justifiable?

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