Re: [NTLK] Newton Museum DVDs

The real issue (at least in the older version of BitTorrent I am
familiar with) is that the tracker and the "seed" file both have to
stay online for the downloading to work. You don't need a lot of
bandwidth, but you do need more than dial-up. And, of course, the
more bandwidth, the better, especially if the there are few people
sharing the load...

On 24. Mar, 2006, at 11:25, Matthew Surles wrote:

> I think I oversimplified. I guess what I was trying to say was
> that if
> there were 100 people downloading the torrent, then the person
> seeding/hosting is not responsible for all 100 downloads, and the
> bandwidth
> (costs?) that it entails. The bandwidth necessary for all 100
> downloads is
> spread out among all participants. The seeder may be responsible
> for more
> like 10 or 20 downloads.
> ...
> I didn't want people to think that one person's bandwidth limit was a
> limiting factor for torrent.

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