Subj : Which VPN?
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Jul 14 2023 08:51 pm

  Re: Which VPN?
  By: Nightfox to Arelor on Thu Jul 13 2023 04:55 pm

 > 
 > Isn't part of the point of BitTorrent to help you get the most speed by conn > 
 >  Ar> ISP hate torrent because ISP oversell more bandwidth than they have and >  Ar> smallammount of torrenters places a lot of stress on them.
 > 
 > I haven't heard this, but I'd think that rather than ISPs complaining about  > 
 >  Ar> And they don t care if you are sued or whatever because most likely you >  Ar> are going to have to hire an ISP anyway.
 > 
 > What do you mean by "hire" here?
 > 

Precisely, BitTorrent is about maximizing your capability of getting files, notabout being nice to the network infrastructure.

Infrastructure overselling is ubicuous in lots of fields. For example, water
supplies in a condo are not prepared to satisty the sum of the nominal target
preasures of every tap in the building. If you open all the taps in a condo at
once you will find you don't get much water out of each. The reason is that
whoever designs the water distribution system oversells water supply capacity
and assumes only a percentage of users will open their taps at a given moment
of the day.

This also applies to power distribution.

And yes, if you misscalculate and oversell so much that your system crumbles
under the load, it is your fault for doing a bad estimation and you should fix
it. Still, a user leaving all his taps open to the max all day would be
nevertheless a bad neighbor.

Hiring an ISP here would mean getting an Internet Subscription.

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