![]() ![]() You have to find the torrents yourself, probably with BitTorrent isn't meant to be aįull-blown network like they are, and so it doesn't have thisįeature built-in. In many systems (such as Napster, KaZaA, or eDonkey) searching for aįile is built right into the program. Once she has the file, she starts sharing itĪs well, so that other people can get it.īitTorrent follows this progression closely, with a few differences. If they aren't too busy helping other people, hopefully they'llīe able to help her out. So, Alice searches for Matrix Reloaded, finds out that bothĬharlie and Bob have it, and asks both of them to please send her theįile. Once the file is complete, start sharing it with other people in the system.Go through the list and ask each person on it if they will please send the file.Get a list of everyone who is sharing what they want.Charlie is sharing a bunch of stuffīut doesn't spend much of his time looking for new stuff to download.įor pretty much all p2p systems most people follow these basic steps: Just installed her first p2p software, has nothing to share, and is We'll use three people to demonstrate the concepts here: Alice, Bob, and Charlie.įor all of the examples, we assume that Alice is a total newbie and has You share your files, your friends share theirįiles, and everyone talks directly to each other. That is, you download filesįrom people like you instead of from big servers, and in turn theyĭownload files from you. Sharing filesĭirectly from your computer (without first sending them to a server) is Modems, the everyday user like yourself suddenly has a big chunk ofīandwidth, not only for download, but also upload. With the advent of broadband technologies such as DSL and cable This old system was called client-server, appropriately enough, and it is still used today for the vast majority of stuff on the Internet, including web pages. In the days of dialup, most people didn't have the bandwidth, let alone In a time before broadband DSL and cable modems, back To the fact that it takes a lot of outgoing bandwidth You, as the client, probably didn't shareĪny files or web pages with anyone. Theyĭidn't do much other than sit there and wait for people like you to Primary job was to hold web pages and files to be downloaded. (Just like at a restaurant.) There weren't that many servers, but their ![]() I won't be offended.Ī few years ago the Internet was pretty easily divided into two groups: servers and clients. Basic Filesharing: Client-Server and P2PĪgain, skip ahead if you know this part. It is theĬombination of the IP address and the port number that makes theĬonversation between two computers happen. On port 80, secure web pages are on port 443, programs from companiesįor download (like shareware) tend to be on 21, and so on. Numbers, computers on the Internet group all related things by giving Video downloading, real time audio, etc.), they have to have a way ofĭifferentiating which conversations are about what. Since computers can talk to many different computers at once, andĬan talk about a variety of different things (web pages, file sharing, Message eventually gets to the target computer and it talks back to Kindof like the old game of telephone, the Talking to, and it tells the computers around it that it wants to talk Matter) it figures out what the IP address is for the computer you are To download something like a file or a web page (or upload, for that Since computers work best with numbers, an IPĪddress is actually just a really big number. Security number, or even a telephone number.) This identifier is calledĪn IP address. (Kindof like a driver's license number, or a Social When your computer connects to the Internet (whether via dialup,ĭSL, cable modem, or whatever), it has to have a unique identifierĪssociate with it, so that all of the other computers on the InternetĬan talk to it. Through this, in an attempt to make sure I don't go over anyone's head.įeel free to skip this section if you already know this stuff. I'm going to give a rudimentary explanation of networking as I go How BitTorrent Works (and most other P2P sharing networks, too) Basic Networking: IP Addresses and Port Numbers Reader, and hopefully help you tweak your system to get the most out ofīitTorrent. The purpose of this document is to educate you, the Their systems and a lack of understanding of how BitTorrent (and other That their problems are almost certainly due to misconfiguration of Upload rate, and they think BitTorrent sucks. That has a ton of seeds, they get a horrible download rate and a high How BitTorrent Works (and most other P2P sharing networks, too)įar too many people new to BitTorrent just install the client andĮxpect everything to magically work.Tweaking your system to get the most out of BitTorrent ![]()
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