#7511 HIGH 8.1.1 (: Transferring video files between laptops saturates bandwidth and kills running session

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#7511: Transferring video files between laptops saturates bandwidth and kills
running session
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   Reporter:  joe                  |       Owner:  mbletsas             
       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                  
   Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  8.1.1 (was Update1.1)
  Component:  video-chat-activity  |     Version:  Update.1             
 Resolution:                       |    Keywords:                       
Next_action:  never set            |    Verified:  0                    
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Comment(by Charlie):

 If the laptops themselves require rebooting and not just the Record
 activity then the issue may not ''just'' be a network problem. It could be
 an application crash exacerbated or caused by a network problem, but it
 sounds more like an application crash to me.

 Saturated bandwidth is not something that I would consider the network to
 be 'at-fault' for -- IMNSHO, that is normally the user's problem, but in
 our particular case it's just a side-effect of being in the middle of
 Cambridge and having 9 XOs all trying to transfer files with each other at
 the same time.

 I don't know exactly how the transfer process works in this case, but at a
 guess the XO that the video is coming from is trying to send it to all of
 the XOs requesting it simultaneously, instead of in a queue, or some sort
 of 'distributed' manner where laptops that have the file seed what they
 have to other laptops who are connected (like BitTorrent).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7511#comment:4>
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