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Re: Re: Grand Designs Torrents



Ho Yin Ng wrote:

> Why do they have to wait?
>
> Surely the more people downloading means you can get your completed
episode
> quicker .. as they act as peers and you can download chunks off them.
>
> As long as they are not leeching that is fine.

Yep, what he said. :)

A torrent splits the file up into 256KB blocks (so there's around 1900
in this release) and these get downloaded and shared between everyone
randomly, then everyone gets bits they don't have from people who have
bits they do have and vice versa. :)

Cheers
--
Doogie


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