Dagmar wrote:
Bennett goes on to talk about the "Jacobson Algorithm" which is basically a mechanism by which a host that's sending data can be told to slow down the rate at which it sends. Sadly, Bennett fails to realize that just because UDP doesn't have this doesn't mean a similar mechanism can't be applied to it.

Bennett's article was obviously sensationalistic but one of the things I've heard Noteworthy say is that designing a congestion control algorithm is like designing your own cryptographic system. Unless you are a highly specialized expert you don't know enough about it to try. So, this begs the question, what is bittorrent's congestion control algorithm and is it any good?

RE: Why Richard Bennett is Wrong