Donkey versus Waterfall
So, I fired up E-Mule, to get some stuff I want.
Usually I use bittorrent (Azureus implementation) to get stuff I want, but it doesn’t work with particularly old/rare/low demand stuff.
So, I went to emule. And I searched for it. And lo and behold, I found 35 different versions of what I wanted.
And so I started a session up. Shared the couple of files I’ve pulled off the mule before, and let it go for like 8 hours while I was at work.
And uploaded about 550 megs at 20K/sec.
And downloaded about 5 megs.
Yes, that’s right. Despite having roughly a gig of not-uncommon files queued up to pull from the mule, all of which have sources, I managed to get 5 megs toward the target in 8 hours.
Then I killed it, because of connection-rape (high latency on remote desktop and all).
And I came back a bit later, and started it up. And now I’m at 80 megs uploaded this session. and 110KB down. That’s right. 80 megs, 110 KB.
So much for “rewarding uploaders”.
This is why bittorrent is so much better a protocol.