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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    "BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth. The key philosophy of BitTorrent is that users should upload (transmit outbound) at the same time they are downloading (receiving inbound.) In this manner, network bandwidth is utilized as efficiently as possible. BitTorrent is designed to work better as the number of people interested in a certain file increases, in contrast to other file transfer protocols.

    One analogy to describe this process might be to visualize a group of people sitting at a table. Each person at the table can both talk and listen to any other person at the table. These people are each trying to get a complete copy of a book. Person A announces that he has pages 1-10, 23, 42-50, and 75. Persons C, D, and E are each missing some of those pages that A has, and so they coordinate such that A gives them each copies of the pages he has that they are missing. Person B then announces that she has pages 11-22, 31-37, and 63-70. Persons A, D, and E tell B they would like some of her pages, so she gives them copies of the pages that she has. The process continues around the table until everyone has announced what they have (and hence what they are missing.) The people at the table coordinate to swap parts of this book until everyone has everything. There is also another person at the table, who we'll call 'S'. This person has a complete copy of the book, and so doesn't need anything sent to him. He responds with pages that no one else in the group has. At first, when everyone has just arrived, they all must talk to him to get their first set of pages. However, the people are smart enough to not all get the same pages from him. After a short while they all have most of the book amongst themselves, even if no one person has the whole thing. In this manner, this one person can share a book that he has with many other people, without having to give a full copy to everyone that's interested. He can instead give out different parts to different people, and they will be able to share it amongst themselves. This person who we've referred to as 'S' is called a seed in the terminology of BitTorrent. "

    Sorry if that's a bit waffly! From here.

    Basically, you get the bits you DON'T have from the seeds or peers who DO have them. In this way, everybody shares with eachother. The seeds have the comlete files, so they can share the whole thing. To start with, people will download directly from thesite. They then 'seed' the files by making the bits they've downloaded available to others for downloading.

    I'm not very good at explaining this stuff sorry!
    Wow!
    i think i actualy understood most of that5 ...phew!
    and thankyou for the effort. :thumb:
    i'll sleep on it ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    Wow!
    i think i actualy understood most of that5 ...phew!
    and thankyou for the effort. :thumb:
    i'll sleep on it ...
    I hope you aren't just humouring me! Lol.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    I hope you aren't just humouring me! Lol.
    no not at all mate.
    i am familiar with p2p as in shareaza and such ...as i say my son in law uses bit torrents a lot so ...i'm begining to understand and ...a genuine thankyou woooo.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What did you think of the podcasts btw? Curious to know your view
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote:
    What did you think of the podcasts btw? Curious to know your view
    i only briefly clicked on ...i will have a listen this evening and let you know.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    so when does the torrent go live
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No rush man, we want to build up ther number of mp3 we use
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    no not at all mate.
    i am familiar with p2p as in shareaza and such ...as i say my son in law uses bit torrents a lot so ...i'm begining to understand and ...a genuine thankyou woooo.
    Then you're welcome :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote:
    What did you think of the podcasts btw? Curious to know your view
    they don't seem to be working.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It will probably try to autoplay - if there is a problem with what your auto playing with through windows then try right clicking and 'save target' rather then left clicking and play them from your hard drive - they won't tak elong to download
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote:
    It will probably try to autoplay - if there is a problem with what your auto playing with through windows then try right clicking and 'save target' rather then left clicking and play them from your hard drive - they won't tak elong to download
    do i have to subscribe to an rss feed ...cos i just get a this page is unable to be displayed message?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You mean when you click on the rss link itself? With the rss button you want to right click and copy shortcut then past the link into the reader
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