TUAW reader mailbag: 10.4.2 BitTorrent speed boost

By Jay Savage

TUAW reader KissTheRing writes:

Ever since I got the 10.4.2 my bittorrent downloads have had much better performance, up and down. I've always gotten better torrent download speeds from my windows machine but not anymore. Could Apple be trying to fix the inability of iTunes to download podcasts that are distributed via torrents?

Well, we can hope.

How fast third party programs can perform uploads and downloads doesn't really tell us much about what Apple is planning, though. 10.2.4 included a number of networking fixes, and several of them could affect BitTorrent performance depending on your connection. In particular, the HTTP and HTTPS enhancements may have benefited the BitTorrent Tracker. These upgrades benefit all applications using these protocols, however, not just BitTorrent. In fact, they were patched to improve iDisk performance.

Has anyone else noticed a significant BitTorrent boost with 10.4.2?
 

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