April 11th, 2001
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| Disciple | | Join Date: April 9th, 2001 Location: Vancouver
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by milhouse_ph:
The biggest problem is... large files take a really long time for people to upload to others... most people are capped at about 15kb/s on cable and dsl connections. Meaning you can download at 250 kb/s but you can only upload at 15kb/s. This is what causes the problem....
Assume you have someone serving movies...and the movie is 600Mb and he only allows 2 people to d/l at a time...and he is capped at 15kb/s.
so it takes one person
600mb x 1024kb/mb = 614400Kb
614400Kb / (15kb/s / 2 users) = 81920 seconds
81920 sec / 60sec/min = 1366 minutes
1366min / 60min/hr = 22 hours.
So it means that it takes 22 hours before those slots will open again... that's why it takes so long... and it exactly the reason i stopped sharing my movies... I want people to get my movies but it's ridiculous to try this without 1) a reliable resume function (I mean one with 100% reliability) 2) higher bandwidth. All I got was people getting partial movies from me... they got the first 100MB and then a data collision, or something and the connection was dropped....
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