Posted by Don Wiss on 10/23/05 18:21

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:05:44 +0100, anthonyberet <nospam@me.invalid> wrote:

>There are arguments against sharing incomplets, such as quality-checking
>etc, but don't forget that incomplete large files (over 100mb total) are
>pretty much essential for large files to propagate effectivley.

I disagree. Because of leeching the WinMX is upload bandwidth constricted.
Even many people that share a lot of files choke down their upload
bandwidth. So getting bytes is dependent on this limitation, and not
whether you are downloading from a completed file or an incomplete.

The only time incompletes help bandwidth is from the people that only share
incompletes. If they didn't share them they would not be supplying any
bytes into the network.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

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