My network link is asymmetrical - I have very little upload bandwidth compared to download. This is not uncommon.
BitTorrent is abysmal for me. It quickly saturates my uplink bandwidth, destroying downlink performance. Or I cap it, or it discovers a cap, and my upload rate is slow enough that I'm labelled a leech in the BitTorrent network and get a slow download rate.
World of Warcraft's updater was absolute trash for me. I always got far better transfer rates turning off P2P and sucking up the congestion on the direct download option.
BitTorrent simply doesn't work for most of the world's commercially available home links.
BitTorrent doesn't necessarily mean everyone seeds, nor that access is free.
If there was some kind of micropayments infrastructure for seeders/leechers/content owners, I would happily seed arbitrary-but-legal torrents with my 1000/1000mbps connections in exchange for credits towards media or cash to cover the connection ... While I imagine you'd pay to download using BitTorrent, with some tiny fraction going to me (proportional to resource consumption) but never seeding to others.
BitTorrent is abysmal for me. It quickly saturates my uplink bandwidth, destroying downlink performance. Or I cap it, or it discovers a cap, and my upload rate is slow enough that I'm labelled a leech in the BitTorrent network and get a slow download rate.
World of Warcraft's updater was absolute trash for me. I always got far better transfer rates turning off P2P and sucking up the congestion on the direct download option.
BitTorrent simply doesn't work for most of the world's commercially available home links.