jibba Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 hi,it happens regularly that i want to download the same file as friends of me. in such a case it would be cool if we could configure our clients in such a way, that they will automatically coordinate what they download, and that - as soon as we are finished - we could give the downloaded parts to each other using e.g. a usb flash memory and then merge these parts into one download.currently this is already possible, but only manually and on a per-file-basis (does not help if the downloaded torrent contains only one big file).what do you think?regards,rh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I think that this is going against the intended peer connection dynamic of the BitTorrent protocol.You're supposed to connect to large groups of RANDOM peers, not a group of friends.You will be generating a cluster of connections that could potentially get cut off from the rest of the swarm, cutting off your supply of pieces.This "Cooperative downloading" may help your small group of friends, but it harms the swarm on the large scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keloran Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 theres already a program like this i think, the one made by the winamp makers sounds like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 http://waste.sourceforge.net/ (this is the program Keloran mentioned)-Ares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 Doesn't sound very useful to me, like it would apply to a very small group of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 Yeah, but that's what this guy *wants* lol Plus, on the upside, it is encrypted at least.-Ares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SledgeDG Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I can hardly see that both of you guys only wanting one fileSo why not each of you downloading a different file and then later exchange them either by USB Stick or a small program like ssftA nifty little program to exchange files among friends-DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 DG, you are awesome. I've been looking for a program like ssft for ages. Thanks!There's some other pretty cool programs on that site too...-Ares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibba Posted December 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 @sledge: yeah but some torrents only consist of one (big) file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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