| Saxxy | Date: Wednesday, 2012-03-21, 7:00 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Torrent aka Bit Torrent
Bit Torrents make use of multiple computers and receive any file in pieces/packets/chunks. The torrent breaks the files into small pieces, thus letting you download that precious file from many so that for every chunk you download, it gets uploaded to another person who wants it. It doesn't just get it from one host but shares the loads from many hosts or different people at the same time. This can make it a much faster system for transferring large files than a P2P network. After downloading the parts are combined into one and the file is on your hard drive ready for use.
Bit Torrent is often referred to as ‘true P2P sharing’ because instead of publishers servers being used to distribute the files, Bit Torrent users do the file serving themselves. The Torrent community of users voluntarily upload their files into the swarm and are motivated by the cooperative spirit. Bit Torrent also adds incentives to generous users
The Torrent sharing philosophy goes like this:-
if you share your files on Bit Torrent then your reward will be an increased download speed. However if you just leech and don't share your files then your download speeds will be slowed down. So in effect your generosity is rewarded. This downloading speed is controlled by the Bit Torrent tracking servers. They will monitor all of the ‘swarm’ users. If a user shares files then the tracker servers reward you with and increased swarm bandwidth allocation. Don't share and you’ll find your downloading speed creeping around 1k per sec.
Saxxy
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