Reply To: JCCC4 Twit-arr post-mortem
@BrettGlass is just being his usual self because he runs an ISP company (and is therefore understandably predisposed to hate any technology of the type that makes his work environment harder). 🙂
BitTorrent for local filesharing seems to be a reasonable idea as long as the local bandwidth supports it, but there are problems too. The real issue though is: does even a Bittorrent setup collapse if there’s only one seed and many leechers? Bearing in mind that the moment someone leaves local wi-fi range, they’re going to drop out of the torrent seed/leecher pool, you’d need multiple devices seeding simultaneously to absorb the crush of traffic, otherwise you’re going to get a lot of data call thrashing as each seed asks for a different piece of what are going to be very, very large files.