From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15292 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Apr 2003 08:17:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11751 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2003 08:17:00 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:09:36 +0200 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa To: "James H. Cloos Jr." Cc: Caleb Shay , Gentoo-Dev Message-ID: <20030415080936.GA2217@linalco.com> References: <1050351263.19545.20.camel@chinstrap.penguins.homeunix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage X-Archives-Salt: 22891531-d640-42f0-91a9-709c8e65e6bf X-Archives-Hash: b050e81eb67fa5327558b9d2416a3473 On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:42:34PM -0400, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: > Note that bittorrent does not work very well for dialup users. The > overhead ends up being twice as large or more than the payload. It > also ends up blocking most other traffic. > > It generally helps for those with more bandwidth, of course, but > something that does not open a couple of hundred sockets works > better over straws. A couple of hundred sockets may be too much for reliable download even for some broadband users. For example, here Telefonica installs a Zyxel 643 ADSL router, and its NAT table has a limit of 256 simultaneous entries with a default 180 seconds timeout (yah, it sucks) -- Ragnar Hojland - Project Manager Linalco "Especialistas Linux y en Software Libre" http://www.linalco.com Tel: +34-91-5970074 Fax: +34-91-5970083 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list