The Experiment Begins
At this moment, it is 10 minutes after my first publish of the Bittorrent enclosure in the main feed. I have at this moment 30 peers connected to me and I hope to each other. I've pushed about a share ratio of 2, but I don't know how efficiently the short-lived iPodder clients will be about maximizing the piece distribution. I'd assume at this point that even if I disconnected right now, there would be enough pieces to make a full copy out there. If I did that, I wonder exactly what would happen? The connected clients would swap chunks amongst themselves and as each one completed it would drop off, leaving it a slow footrace to be the last one without a full copy. However it works out, as long as this is all working, I'm delighted. This is pretty much what I expected to happen - a big burst of simultaneously downloading peers happening right after a publish but I'll admit that this is more clients in a shorter time period than I was expecting.