Posted by anthonyberet on 10/25/05 22:13

Don Wiss wrote:
> 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.
>
er hang on, are you saying that although I share complete files and large
incomplete files, when somebody downloads from an incomplete, that this
doesn't help the network?
Data is data - as long as not corrupted, more sources of a file are
always going to help, not hinder.

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