Comments on: Azureus Vuze, BitTorrent Losing to Market Leader uTorrent http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/ Sat, 26 May 2012 10:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476826 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:38:49 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476826 ~17k is more than enough to get a representative sample.

That aside, the previous two measurements used swarms og more than 100k peers.

]]> By: Mark Jonson http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476825 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:52:15 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476825 I hate the name Vuze and the “new” interface. But I hate uTorrent’s interface much more. I am using and will continue to use Vuze with the “old UI” setting until they stop me. At which point I’ll move to another torrent client. I’ll use rTorrent if I have to before I’ll switch to uTorrent.

]]> By: Bigfatbball2 http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476824 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:29:16 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476824 Only detail not mentionned is that vuze has stopped adding any content to their HD platform for nearly three weeks

]]> By: Charles http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476823 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:01:00 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476823 @Alon – Great point! A sample size of ~17k peers is far too small.

]]> By: Alon http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476822 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:53:10 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476822 Quite frankly the TF report feels sensationalistic, as all these “metrics” are based on a sample size of just 17k peers, which is a tiny tiny fraction of the millions connected at any given moment, and a size so small that a single torrent can significantly skew the results. I would argue that the tribler folks need to significantly increase their sample size before anyone can argue true statistical significance:

10361 uTorrent
2449 Azureus

I’ve seen more peers on a single Lost torrent alone, than in their entire sampling! A 2% change is only a couple hundred peers in this tiny sample, a laughably small number, particularly when you realize that just a single torrent’s peers could skew all of these in the complete opposite direction.

Let me know when somebody posts some real numbers, say from a real-world tracker’s point of view, like opentracker, which should have millions of swarm peers to pull metrics from.

]]> By: Charles http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476821 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:51:58 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476821 @Sam – Yes, BitTorrent Inc. acquired uTorrent in December of 2006.

]]> By: Sam http://gigaom.com/video/azureus-vuze-bittorrent-losing-to-market-leader-utorrent/#comment-476820 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:30:39 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=33296#comment-476820 Isn’t uTorrent owned by BitTorrent?

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