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[codyb]

If you’re downloading ten segments from ten different uploaders it can all balance out I think.

Bittorrent can be damn quick. Haven’t used it in a while but it was certainly fast on well seeded items.

[notyourday → codyb]

Bittorrent would eat all of the available bandwidth if the content is popular enough that there are always new leachers available.

With enough bandwidth Bittorrent would be less efficient than a single stream TCP between the source and destination because of the protocol overhead.