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BitTorrent Search Engine
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BitTorrent is a simple protocol that helps to distribute large files very fast
and efficiently and reduces bandwidth usage at servers serving those files at the same
time. Usually if a company wants to deliver new products, e.g. iso images of an updated Linux
distribution, it puts the images on a server from which users may download them.
Each user downloads the data only from this server which produces a fairly amount of
traffic that in turn produces high costs for the company.
The BitTorrent protocol solves this problem by using the upload capacities of
downloaders. Imagine a user A is downloading a file from server X and a second user B
contacts X to download the same file. Since server X knows what parts of the file have
already been downloaded by A it is not necessary for B to download everything from X.
Instead, X tells user B to download some data from user A and the rest of the data
from X. That's the way BitTorrent works.
The benefits of this protocol are:
 | Download speed increases |
 | Traffic and upload bandwidth is reduced at servers |
For detailed information about BitTorrent we refer to
The Official BitTorrent Home Page
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