On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:40:23 -0600, Winston Smith
<Winston.Smith@Victory.Mansions.com> wrote:
>Actually don't torrents depend on two computer - the leecher and the
>seeder?? And doesn't it count on the connection between the two computers
>and how fast the connection on both are?? (No point having a 8Mb Broadband
>router if the computer you are leeching from is running off a 56K Modem
>(Does anyone still use a 56K Modem) I am probably completely wrong but I
>use Vuze and Vuze uses the Seeder/Leecher arrangement and even though I
>have got running at maximum speed (thanks to a vid from YouTube) on certain
>things it still runs slower than an arthritic snail :-) Does Bit Torrent
>run on a different method??
It's all Torrent, Winston, which is Peer to Peer. You're correct about
the download speed being dependant on the uploader's rate, but with
many seeds and peers, the download speed is cumulative from all the
uploades who are sharing the same file or parts of the file. I've
reached speeds of 3.5MB/s on many popular files. Isohunt will give
seeding info as well as comments on many torrents available.
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