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[QUOTE="menstrual_sweatpants_disco:293544"]Also, if anyone's curious as to how this works, I'll try and explain it a bit. When using other p2p networks, you connect to a server that gets you in touch with everybody else. You usually serve out a list of files that you specifically selected as available for other people to download. When someone downloads a file, they're downloading it off one person alone. (This could be slow if they have a slow connection). With bittorrent, you're downloading one file from dozens of people (which can make things a bit faster). A website will usually serve a small .torrent file. This torrent file (I believe) just has some info about the real file you're trying to download, along with a link to the tracker. Your client will read the info in the torrent file and connect to the tracker. The tracker is the server that gets you in touch with all the other people that are leaching/seeding the file. Leachers are basically people downloading the file (but haven't finished yet), and seeders are people that have the completed file and are just uploading. Now, when you are downloading a file, you download different parts of the file at once, from different people. Also, while you are downloading those pieces, you are also uploading the parts you ALREADY downloaded to other people. So you upload and download at the same time. When your file is complete and you have all parts of the file downloaded, it is usually good practice to leave the client running for a while and seed a little. Again, when you're seeding, you're doing nothing but uploading the file to other leachers. The more seeders and leachers a torrent has, the stronger it is. When you select a torrent off a site, look for the one that has the most seeders and leachers. There's still a lot to this shit that I don't know about. I really only bothered to read about the stuff I cared about. Pretty much just the stuff that got me downloading & figuring out why the fuck some files go so slow. My info on the tracker shit is probably a little fuzzy. I just basically skimmed over it when I read about it. I'm not interested in creating torrents and setting up trackers, so I could care less. If anybody can correct my info this, please do. Also, I recently started using peerguardian when I use bittorrent now. ( http://methlabs.org/projects/ ) If anybody doesn't know, it's basically a simple firewall that gets a list of IP addresses that are typically known to be used by the bad guys (RIAA, MPAA, government, members of metallica... anybody who doesn't like p2p applications a whole lot). This has been around for a while, and I've always just disregarded it as crap that probably won't do a damn bit of good. However, I did need it once to complete a download. A certain TV show I was downloading was being targeted by Anti-p2p groups. They weren't collecting info or doing anything crazy, but they WOULD connect to the trackers, act as regular seeders, and just seed out bullshit data that would corrupt everyone's downloads. (Once a leacher has bad data from one of those anti-p2p seeders, the leacher will now also be sending out that bad data to others without knowing it). I probably downloaded 4 different versions of one of these episodes that were all corrupted. When I got peerguardian up and running, they had the anti-p2p group's IPs in their ban list and I was able to block those groups from corrupting my downloads.[/QUOTE]
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