[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> I'm quickly approaching my posting limit for the day (week?) but I can't
> resist telling you the following story:
> 
> I recently found myself somewhere where BitTorrent is severely
> throttled. Although I can download over HTTP at megabytes per second,
> BitTorrent downloads wouldn't go faster than 10 kilobytes per second.
> 
> Turns out that the newest Azureus (BitTorrent application) supports
> IPv6. Enabled this and lo and behold: I got about 75 peers, 5 of which
> were IPv6, the rest IPv4. Of the IPv6 peers, one had a regular IPv6
> address, the other four 6to4 addresses. Even though the 70 IPv4 peers
> could only give me 10 kB/s, the 5 IPv6 peers pushed my download well
> beyond 100 kB/s.

May be that's just because of your rating in these peering networks? ;)

-- 
WBR,
Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)