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-A PeerToPeer file downloading system written in [Python] (but with easy-to-use installers for a number of platforms, including [Windows]). Unlike most PeerToPeer systems, BitTorrent works per-file. Users first download a tiny __.torrent__ file which provides meta-data on the download, including the URL of a centralised ''tracker'' that listens to special queries over an ordinary HTTP connection. The tracker itself does not have the file, it only keeps track of peers currently downloading the file to allow them to discover each other. The peers fetch sections of the file from each other in random order using a tit-for-tat system. The end result is generally
a very efficient downloading system, offering insanely fast downloads even when the original provider of the file is on a very slow link.
+A PeerToPeer file downloading system written in [Python] (but with easy-to-use installers for a number of platforms, including [Windows]). Unlike most PeerToPeer systems, BitTorrent works per-file. Users first download a tiny __.torrent__ file which provides meta-data on the download, including the [
URL]
of a centralised ''tracker'' that listens to special queries over an ordinary [
HTTP]
connection. The tracker itself does not have the file, it only keeps track of peers currently downloading the file to allow them to discover each other. The peers fetch sections of the file from each other in random order using a tit-for-tat system. The end result is a generally
very efficient downloading system, offering insanely fast downloads even when the original provider of the file is on a very slow link.
To make the system work, a client which already has the full file, referred to as the seeder, must initially connect to the tracker. This client is in no way special and its continued presence is not required either. There needn't even be a single client which has the full file at any given time, provided that all sections of the file exist on at least one of the peers signed onto the tracker.
-There is a bittorrent client called
[bittornado
|http://bittornado.com/],
written in python and
using the cross-platform
[wxWidgets] graphical library. It
also has
a console/curses mode as well as the graphical front-end
. Debian Unstable (and soon testing?)
users can "
apt-get install bittornado"
.
+[BitTornado
| http://bittornado.com/] is a BitTorrent client
written in [Python],
using [wxWidgets] for its [GUI], but
also offering
a [Curses] interface
. Debian users can __
apt-get install bittornado__
.
See also:
* [BitTorrent homepage|http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/]
* [Btorrents forum|http://www.btorrents.com/]
* [Spanish BitTorrent FAQ|http://www.ayudabittorrent.com/]
* [more bittorrent-links|http://members.chello.nl/p.wiersema/index.html]
* [Suprnova.org - Ultimate Bittorrent Index|http://www.suprnova.org]
