@jonas, you are exactly the right person to ask this.
lets take an example... torrents from piratebay, kickasstorrents and isohunt, if i am downloading a certain file, and i get a torrent from piratebay, i will download file chunks from clients that got their torrent from pb, right? and assuming most of these are russian, then ill be downloading my files from russia, sio?
If on the other hand we have a "default" torrents portal, where if regularly seeded guys would get their torrents from, then a big likelyhood would be that many of the Kenyans torrents would be on the same "network" which would mean lots more local chunks than the russian case.
My reasoning also assumes that somehow if most of the chunks im looking for are in kilifi, mombasa or nairobi, ill get them faster than if most are in uzbekistan... simple mass X velocity here.....On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Jonas | Lamu Software <jonas@lamusoftware.com> wrote:Don't really understand this. From a technical perspective isn't this
what local peer discovery, DHT and PEX do in a BT client - find local
peers?
>From what I understand the advantage of a local tracker would only mean
that most peers would be locally (initially at least) but how does that
benefit a user? I am not aware of any ISP offering quicker speeds only
locally.
If the purpose is local content and MCSK would interfere wouldn't it be
better to create a specific account at one of the big trackers that only
uploads local content?
On the other hand ... maintaining a tracker in Kenya could be very cool
if MCSK are relaxed about international content and the purpose would be
to attract a lot of foreign visitors to the site. Problem is as always with
hosting any bandwidth intense application locally ... the price of bandwidth.
There is also the option of a local direct connect hub - would maybe make
more sense depending on the purpose (if someone still uses them :)?
On 10/21/2010 08:28 PM, [ Brainiac ] wrote:
im interested on the principle, not the content. (:-) ) If we have a
local torrents search engine, with actual torrents that are local (or at
least the first stop for most torrenters locally), it would do us good.
so....
Who's up for the challenge?
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Billy <billyx5@gmail.com<mailto:billyx5@gmail.com>> wrote:2010/10/21 m mugo <mugo2of3@gmail.com <mailto:mugo2of3@gmail.com>>
Interestingly, MCSK actually doesn't care about international stuff
(music, movies, videos) just local. Walk into any of those stalls
where they burn music, movies, videos, games etc they'll tell you
the same.
-Billy
<http://mashada.com> and nationmedia.co.ke
I agree, local torrents would be a very good idea. It's about
time that we stopped being just consumers media emanating form
ideas designed by internet users to help all around the world,
and contribute something.
And one of the reasons that websites like mashada.com
<http://nationmedia.co.ke> are so popular is that the users can
access local content easily.
However, challenges come to mind such as sharing of local media
files being illegal (read MCSK, etc)
And for us that are on torrents sites a lot of time, let's make
sure that we seed.
My thoughts,
Mugo
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, [ Brainiac ]<arebacollins@gmail.com <mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello skunks,
I have been toying with this idea and would like someone to
tell me if it indeed is true and makes sense.
Most people nowadays are downloading a lot of stuff on
torrents, as a result, there is plenty of chunks around .
Popular torrents thus have a lot more chunks locally. Now im
wondering, if there was a local torrents database, and local
trackers, would that ensure popular files locally would be
accessed faster ?
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