What is a Bit Torrent?
Posted by: garyi on 04 November 2004
I have just spotted a plane simulator for OSX in beta release and the way to get it is via Bit Torrent.
I just typed that into versiontracker to get an application which has successfully loaded the file and right now I am downloading the game.
BUt what exactly is a bit torrent, to all intents and purposes it looks and behaves like Limewire except there doesn't appear to be a way to load a search.
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by Jim Lawson
The creator's site is
here . You can download the client for OSX there as well. I've used for a few months now and quite like it. It takes a bit of getting used to, still a few bugs. Let me know if you need any tips on getting the most out of it.
Jim
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by garyi
Well I can't knock it, its taken around 40 minutes to get 210 megs in.
I just don't understand what it is!!
It asks for a URL for the download, but the programme implies P2P?
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by justiceklopper
pier to pier file exchanging software works by connecting one user to another. simple, but the user relies on the connection of the host.
bit torrenting is based upon pier to pier , but downloads the same file from multiple hosts("seeds").
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by Roy T
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by Jim Lawson
Check out the intro page on the link above.
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by garyi
Roy those links show starkly how ugly XP is, when are they bringing out this longhorn thing?
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by garyi
Um, I still don't really understand it. Limewire seems to be just the same, if I download something it says downloading from 'X amount of hosts'
It must soley depend on who is using bit torrent at the time and who in the chain has so much of the programme downloaded, and who the hell started it!
As I say it has been extremely effective, I had a consistent rate of 72-76 speed on the download until the end. I purchased limewire pro which does not even touch that most of the time, but then again limewire has everything under the sun on it lol.
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by Roy T
No idea about Longhorn,I don't really care as my openofficeorg and mozilla stuff runs on most things so I can afford to pick and mix additional applications depending upon what I need to do.
FWIW I don't think Longhorn will be an OSX killer in the short term.
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by garyi
Roy I saw on the TV that Longhorn would have awesome search capabilities, which judging by my harddrive would be a good thing.
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by BigH47
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by garyi
Well I don't know what to make of it, I can't get a single torrent to work now.
Oh well, a bit of a laugh
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by Top Cat
Didn't MS back down from committing to the advanced, semantic-ey search in Longhorn?
Ah well... the next OS X will have it at least a year or so ahead of MS...
John
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by garyi
Wow, I have to say after getting to grips with what I am actually doing Torrents rock my world.
Posted on: 08 November 2004 by Roy T
