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Moreover, bittorrent connections are almost never as simple as Alice sending a file to Bob. The network topology is far more intricate, with Bob and Alice send
by Cieplak 15y ago
Moreover, bittorrent connections are almost never as simple as Alice sending a file to Bob. The network topology is far more intricate, with Bob and Alice sending and receiving chunks simultaneously from dozens of seeders/leechers.
- humbledrone 15y agoDoesn't matter. The sum of the size of the chunks downloaded for a movie is the same whether they came from one server or dozens.
- Cieplak 15y agoYou're totally right. For some reason I was thinking the quantity downloaded could exceed the quantity uploaded in a torrent swarm, but that's just wrong. The inputs equal the outputs. I now see that { A->B, A->C, A->D } is three separate one-to-one mappings, instead of a single one-to-many mapping, in the context of A sharing a chunk with B, C, and D.