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Neckbeard Fedora vs Tera-Chad (lemmy.nz)

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[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Hah! I’m just learning this now. I remember on the early 2000s I once started several dozen large downloads right before going on vacation with my parents. Came back 4 weeks later and they were finally done. I thought it was because of our slow internet but it must have been because of my lack of upload credits.

[-] CactusEcho@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

probably a mix of both.

From perplexity because i'm lazy:

The core difference is that eMule uses a persistent, pairwise “credit” score that carries over across files and sessions, while BitTorrent uses a short‑term, per‑swarm “tit‑for‑tat” mechanism with no lasting credit between peers

EDIT: Also emule has a block size of 9Mib while bt has a 512kb which at the time (let's say 2005) was too ambitious for the speeds the users had at home. The 9MiB block is now ok :-)

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