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Anonymous
| | Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 03:13 am: | |
There will undoubtedly be a lot of people complaining about BitTorrent throttling which can be hard to test due to bad seeder-leecher ratios and a number of other issues.
There are already a stack of "speed test" site out there that get the user to download a file made up of junk data or load an image in their browser, so would it be possible to get something similar for BT testing? Or at least develop a platform to test from and then hand it out to whoever has a spare Gigabit pipe going spare?
Maybe the best way of doing this would be for the test site to generate random torrent files and upload them to an internal tracker so that every user gets their own personal torrent with one very fast seed.
To test against systems that look for large numbers of connections (some are dumb and torrent traffic is easy to spot), perhaps every torrent could also have (say) another 25 seeds that only upload a very, very small amount of data (and can be put to use with other test torrents as well). You'd need a bunch of IPs to make the torrents look "normal" to the throttling agent, but I think it would be quite possible to create an artificial test environment.
Just saying "go try a popular Linux torrent" isn't very helpful as there are way too many users with NORMALLY crap speeds (such as Comcast users  ) to test well.
Also, if anyone is able to set up a test ED2K/Gnutella/Gnutella2 host with URI links + fixed source, I'm sure that would help a lot of people too. |
kalmi (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 08:34 am: | |
Ubuntu Hardy Desktop downloads at >10 MB/s (not mbs) |
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