Bittorrent is fast because it can saturate your connection by downloading chunks from multiple connections the same way things like “axel” (wget alternative) an

Bittorrent is fast because it can saturate your connection by downloading chunks from multiple connections the same way things like “axel” (wget alternative) and Download Accelerator apps accomplish it over http. There isn’t an interesting statement on Bittorrent vs internet here. Browsers just don’t make this optimization themselves, probably because most files are small, but also out of respect for the single origin server.