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50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want (techcrunch.com)
10 points by transburgh on Oct 16, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Isn't this more about bandwidth in China, and not the technology of the p2p networks? I don't know, the title makes a statement but it isn't backed up (and I can't read Chinese).


What title? You mean the four characters at the beginning on the whiteboard? It says "Beware of glass" Presumably, the guy was standing in front of a small eatery.


The title of the blog post makes a claim that this new technology is "50x Faster Than BitTorrent". Also, the site referenced (http://www.blin.cn) is in Chinese.


50x faster? Unlikely - when I'm downloading BitTorrent files (with say >100 peers), my connection's bandwidth limit (Cable modem, 1MBps down) is usually the bottleneck. So no matter how much faster the blin.ch protocol is, I'm not getting 50x faster downloads.


BitTorrent let's you play movies that you have yet to finish. So it's not 50x Faster than BitTorrent.


Does bittorrent necessarily download the movie in that order? Usually, I can't play more than five minutes of a movie before the download is complete (and usually less than a minute until it's 95% done).


It's up to the client what order it downloads chunks in (assuming all chunks are available). I'm sure there are clients that try to download chunks in order.




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