darthneo Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Hello all, I am fairly new to torrents...But i have a question, i hope this doesnt "offend" anyoneWhats the point of torrents?I've tried 3 different torrents, one of them was that test torrent from a torrent site... and the most i have gotten to download was 101kB/s, normaly if i am downloading from a server ill get about 150-160kB/s, so is there a certain reason why people use torrents, because it doesnt seem like it "Speeds" up the download, but is actually slower...---EDIT---Here is the link to the 'test' torrent, that i found in these forums...http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-10.2-install-d1.torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nos_slived Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Are you sure you're getting 150-160kB/s, not 150-160kb/s? If this really is the case, you need to tweak your connection settings, because at the very least you should be matching regular HTTP/FTP downloads. One other possibility is that your ISP shapes BitTorrent traffic. You also have to take in to account the time of day that you're using for reference.There are various reasons for using BitTorrent. The most common is because sites that allowed free movie and music downloads would be closed down in 10 minutes. It also reduces load on individual servers when you distribute the source.One of the best reasons comes up when downloading large files such as Linux images. Personally, I don't like using a download manager with HTTP downloads, which has lead to a couple failed SuSE and Fedora Core downloads. Using BitTorrent would have resulted in faster downloads with less failed attempts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipstream Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 darthneo,Yeah, with that archaic 1 megabit connection you should not see any difference nowadays, especially if there are no tens of thousands users hammering the same server =)Actually I for one do prefer p2p over http/ftp just because most modern p2p-transfer protocols include corruption-proof by default. So there is no more need for making RARs-with-recovery-records nor md5 checksum files.(wow! BitTorrent evangelism thread!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthneo Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 acctually its KB/s but after i posted my first post the utorrent went up to 144B/s but after that it kept bouncing from 100-130kB/s, but i guess i see how it is usefull for coruption-proof thing for big files. i gueess that answered my question(s)-Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
system Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 One of the big reasons to use it instead of http is bandwidth.If you have a file on your server that is downloaded 1000 times over http, you can switch it to torrent and only have to upload it say 200 times, depending on the makeup of the swarm.If that file is 2GB in size, you just saved 1.6TB of bandwidth on your web server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 For web server hosts with monthly bandwidth limits, BitTorrent is a MUST! You have a specially designed torrent which only calls the web server's HTTP file link as a LAST resort...and have the tracker set up to only allow maybe once-per-hour re-announces, but also allows DHT and Peer Exchange so the torrent ramps up to speed quickly for new arrivals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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