Iced_Eagle
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Jangle said:how does the bit torrent thing work?
Oh its easy. Basically there are two people on the bittorent network for any given file. Seeders and Peers (or Downloaders if you will)
Seeders are the ones that have the file completed, so they focus all their bandwith on uploading it to people. As soon as you finish downloading a file, you instantly become a seed until you turn off Bittorrent (not recommended though... You are considered a leech if once you finish downloading you just turn off bittorrent and decide not to help seed)
Peers are people who are downloading the movie. They download parts from anyone as long as they don't have them. They also upload any parts they have to any other Peers who don't have them.
The advantages of BT are that instead of everyone going to run server and the server having to give off huge files to everyone singularly (and thus have to work alone and the speeds would soon be crushed) but rather with BT pretty much everyone is a server sharing the file, so thus the more people there are downloading a file, the better your speeds will be.
It's fairly simple, but I suck at explaining so.....
I really can't wait for the demo... Really really really can't wait! :sniper: