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Re:The Mission to Decentralize the Internet by peterwwillis on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @02:36PM (#6923342)
You're missing out on newsgroup and fxp speeds (in the gigabits-per-second range). And that applies to every download, not just the odd torrent with as many seeders as leechers.
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Re:The Mission to Decentralize the Internet by wmf on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:03PM (#6925430)
It's not hard for a system with strictly more resources (e.g. massive servers) to be faster, but who's paying for it and how much more does it cost? I suspect if those massive servers acted as BitTorrent permaseeds the result would be even faster because the peers could contribute additional bandwidth.
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