Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:05 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:
I agree. BitTorrent works.
If you haven't had problems with it, you're not much help troubleshooting it.
My firewall's built from scratch, so I have a pretty good idea how it works. It does work.
Bittorrent doesn't.
Note that this is the problem: for the fortunate, bittorrent works. For the rest of us, it doesn't, and short of a major effort to troubleshoot it it won't. Most of us aren't going to put that effort in, especially if there's something available via ftp that will do the job we're actually trying to do.
All the "helpful" suggestions from people who've never had a problem with bittorrent notwithstanding, _ftp_ works.
The consensus so far agrees on 2 points - ftp works and bittorrent needs work . The logical next step to me is those who can- will do what's required to make bittorrent the usability peer to ftp , OR those committed to a slower evolution of bittorrent will be always a bit behind the curve as will be projects solely shared so . Which is depressing . There are a significant percentage of us handicapped by geography denying us bandwith . Forgetting the alleged leech /all take-no give ethics said to have your d/l proportional to your u/l at heart we can do better . Though the above is claimed to justify darker aspects by some paranoids we here hopefully are not that petty - this does not seem un fixable .
To my admittedly incomplete experience with torrents even if one does negotiate getting a stable client that plays nice with everything else in their install there's a bit more to it . Like renegotiation time after a cloud goes over my Starband dish . Or the unexplained mirage like nature of connections that should be rock solid . Let me be clear- * IF * we can get this to work it will be like going from zmodem up to 100mb Ethernet in terms of bandwith management but we don't have a grip on how to implement this .
Anyone have some constructive and CONCRETE how-to ?
Oren