Re: (OT) Bit Torrent usage ...
From: Mike McCarty (mike.mccarty_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/01/05
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:39:02 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Erik Hemdal wrote:
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>>Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible
>>advantage it would give me over, say, wget?
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>>Mike
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> I'll try to help.
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> If you use a conventional tool, even wget, you are making one connection to
> a remote server. If that server goes down, or slows down, your transfer
> slows down too. Regardless of the bandwidth you have available, you are
> limited by the bandwidth of the remote server (or of the slowest link
> between you).
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> Again, if the transfer is interrupted, you lose. You must start again.
> More than once, I've lost a complete Red Hat download because, after
> downloading 80% of (say) a CD image, the connection failed somewhere and all
> was lost.
I've never experienced that "wget -c" failed to get a complete
intact image. Could you please explain in what way torrent could
complete a download that wget could not?
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> BitTorrent establishes multiple connections between your computer and others
> which have the files you want. The files are transferred in multiple
> pieces. If a single connection fails, you only lose a portion of the data
> you are transferring; the previously downloaded parts are still valid.
How is this different from wget? (Aside from possibly having to do some
manual intervention?) You seem to be saying that if a server fails, wget
cannot be used to get the rest from another.
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> In payment for a more-efficient download, your system also turns into a
> server for the length of time you are running BitTorrent. So others are
> downloading from you at the same time you are downloading from others.
Well, my downloads are already pushing 70% or so occupancy of my ADSL,
so I don't think that having more than one source is going to make
it much if any faster, since it's approaching saturation anyway.
Mike
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