BITTORRENT : There is an obvious link to the introduction page which is very clearA very simple diagram on how it works. Again very little to read.Yes Mandrake could have communicated in big red letters that BT is p2psoftware, for the likes of people that cant click on a couple of links tofind out about this strange new technology."If you need an explanation on how to use and install BitTorrent pleaseread these stories: and Setup BitTorrent on yourMandrake Linux and the associated comments""How does BitTorrent work ? It is a Peer to Peer system. While you aredownloading you are also allowing others to download from you."But if you feel so strongly that the letters weren't big enough and redenough simply dont install Mandrake and stop going on about it.Communicate it to them instead and make a +ve contribution.Thanks for that repost. Of course, the people who are having so muchtrouble will probably not bother reading this post either, as that wouldtake too much of their time, and be very difficult. BITTORRENT : Well, you must be related to Bill, or something. To me, it was adequatelyexplained, and links were provided for more reading if desired. Nobody istrying to drive new users away, but people have got to realize that theycan't have their hand held all the way through life. There was nothinghard or secretive about how Mandrake deployed BitTorrent. It did requiremost users to do a little homework, which I didn't mind a bit. If thatbothers you, perhaps you should just give up, boot Windoze, and tradeviruses with Bill. Have a nice day.I just switched to Fedora Core. Along side Knoppix/Debian, and Gentoo, I am not deprived while waiting for proper mirrors.-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----BT uploads the torrent file you are currently downloading. Download rate is tied to upload rate. BT relies on a distributed p2p process to speed downloads, the more people downloading the faster, it starts out slow then ramps up. BT > All I get is tracker timeout and it aborts. WTF??? BITTORRENT : OK, so I'm an idiot when it comes to programs andhow they work. I d/l'ed BitTorrent and am currentd/l'ing Asagiri no Miko episode 16. I'm noticing thatI'm also UPloading as well as Downloading? Howdoes that work?Also, I have a ton of eps (no full series, I tend to burnand erase once I get 3-6 eps of a series) on a secondarydrive. Will BitTorrent detect those and contribute totheir distribution, or do I need to create a special folderfor BitTorrent to read and detect whatever content Iwish to contribute to sharing? If I download a certaintitle or episode, will I find my pc uploading ad infinitumfor the rest of eternity as the 'price' of downloading itonce?Anyone? Please, in layman's terms so I can actuallyunderstand what's happening here?D-Chance.(yes, I DO try things out before reading instructions.Most instructions confuse more than inform, and theBitTorrent site I d/l'ed the program from didn't helpme too much as far as answering questions...) The Server, who has the file people want; The Server's ISP, who handles the Internet traffic to and from the Server; and N Clients, who want that file the Server's got. BITTORRENT : When a Client wants a file belonging to the Server, usuallythe Client will open an FTP session[2] with the Server, requestthe file, and receive it in the form of a string of packets (which are all about the same size) which the Client's FTP software will reassemble into a copy of the file. Let's say it takes M packets to send that file.If N Clients want that file, and they all use FTP to download it,then the Server has to send M packets to each Client, for a totalof N*M packets.BitTorrent, on the other hand, does this: having compiled a listof the N Clients, it breaks the file into M packets as usual, but then distributes the packets among the Clients, sort of like a dealer dealing cards to card players. It also sends to each Clienta list of the Clients and which packets each Client got. This listis also a file, so it gets divided into packets when sent; lets say this list is K packets in size. BITTORRENT : When all Clients have their copies of the list and their share ofpackets, the Server tells the Clients, "Okay, trade packets amongyourselves until everybody has the complete file."What's the advantage in this? Consider what the Server's ISP seeswhen it handles traffic for the Server. With FTP, the ISP seesthe server send N*M packets; with BitTorrent, the ISP sees the Server send M + N*K packets. Usually K tends to be much, much less than M, so that M + N*K ismuch less than N*M. If the ISP imposes a hard limit on how much data the Server can send per day, BitTorrent makes it possible tosend the file to more Clients per day than with FTP. If the ISPcharges for every packet sent or received, BitTorrent is cheaperfor the Server than FTP.Remember now, this is just a _guess_ of how BitTorrent works, and why the Server might choose to use it. And I haven't even got intowhat the costs are to the Clients, or how the BitTorrent sessionmight be optimized to take into account the different connectivityspeeds of the Clients. [1] I'm using the terms "Server" and "Client" rather loosely here; I know there are specific, technical definitions for these terms, but don't assume them here.
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