[mythtv-users] Torrentocracy

[steve at nexusuk.org]

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, David Huseby wrote:

> I also think that torrentocracy will be the killer app to put all of
> those city-wide wireless networks (a la www.seattlewireless.net) to use.
> The increased bandwidth would make torrenting much more efficient...plus
> with all of the WRT54G hacking going on, the torrent packets could be
> given higher priority on the QoS routing.

With QoS routing you actually want to give high bandwidth applications 
like bittorrent lower priority - BT won't gain much from the higher 
priority, but interactive stuff like SSH gains lots.  Push BT to the 
highest priority and the latency for everything else will really suck.

- -- 

 - Steve                                             http://www.nexusuk.org/

     Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence

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