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Article:		Enabling Peer-to-Peer BitTorrent Downloads with Azureus
Subject:		Peer to Peer?
Date:		2007-07-05 00:05:35
From:		R.Govoni
Response to: Peer to Peer?
Good article! IMHO, having only a few clients in the swarm is not really a problem, since the initial seeder will then be able to handle 'direct downloads' otherwise impossible with a greater swarm. You should try to balance between direct downloads (when there are few clients) and p2p downloads when the clients number arise. I think there's another sort of problem: in order to keep the swarm healthy, you need to keep as many clients connected as possible. How do you achieve this? The user may not want to keep a data connection open (and waste bandwidth for other users) once the update is finished, especially if we're dealing with a desktop application and not a networked one (such as World of Warcraft). I would not advise keeping the seeder active even when the update is finished, otherwise the user will suspect of having some sort of spyware installed in its system.