torrent

[Tom Haws]

Back to the original question, downloading from a torrent is better because
it doesn't swamp the "source" server.  If you have a feeble server, but a
high-demand and large file to serve, providing a torrent download shifts
the server load from yourself to your users, where they nearly all download
from each other, and all you do is tell them where to find each other.

As a user, downloading a torrent can be better because that feeble server
in the example above may be crawling along at a snail's pace, while the
peer-to-peer download torrent is crusing at mach speed.

With a torrent, the more popular a file, the better the results.

Tom

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location?
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