Please I want to learn...

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2003

Answers

Bit torrent is like a p2p sharing network. Except in bit torrent it forces you to share. So when u click a torrent file u save to a location on ur comp. It then "allocates" the file meaning it makes a file in ur comp the size of the file u are trying to dowload. Then it goes and searches for people with parts of the file or the whole thing and starts downloading. but it downloads in parts so u might have the begining and the end but not the mid or something like that. U never know exactly what parts u have until it says dl suceeded then u have the whole file.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2003

Which sounds kinda sucky but apparently it works pretty work. Can it resume if your downloads crash?

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2003

Yes it does resume, even corrupt, incomlete files, downloaded from irc or elsewhere. Unfortunatelly it is not possible to resume bt- downloads with any application besides bittorrent. The forced upload sux, if you are on dsl or a slower connection, but running it as leech-only client would cause the bittorrent network a kazaa-like- slow, painful death. For more info read this bt-faq: http://www.animesuki.com/faq.php

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2003

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html is where you go to download it... it's very helpful. Saves you hours of waiting in IRC queue lines for the latest releases.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2003