![]() ![]() If too many people download from at the same time, speed slows down.From some places (Germany) for instance, that's an awfully slow connection. No matter where in the world you are, you have to connect to this certain server.Thousands of people are downloading our large files from, because they heard of us from friends, the news, or buzz. We get conveniently manageable server space and unlimited bandwidth for free - they get our good content and traffic. LibriVox primarily publishes our files on. Why is BitTorrent important for us? Our conventional method Files in BitTorrent are offered as so called "Torrents". And when the file you wanted is finished you keep sending it to others (until you decide to stop seeding). As a peer/downloader you receive and send many small pieces of the file, until it's finished. Still sharing the file after you've finished downloading is called "seeding" (and is considered good manners!). Someone with a completed download, who makes that file available is called a "Seed". When you are downloading something, you are called a "Peer". This way everybody's upload-capacity is used in the process, which is wasted in standard HTML or FTP-downloads. So you end up downloading "bits" of the file from whoever has some free upload capacity at any given time. We are able to publish the audio books from our homes, from your and my PC, without major bandwidth demands.īitTorrents connect you to the one server where the file you want is hosted, but it ALSO connects you to all the people who are downloading the file at same moment, and to those who have already finished the file too. It gives us the opportunity to offer our audio books by ourselves - independently - in addition to publishing them with a centralized server like. ![]() 4.3 The Awesomeness! And download numbersīitTorrent is a file sharing technique that allows us to distribute large files to a great number of people.2.2 Disadvantages to conventional methods.
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