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Wonder if the author tried BitTorrent. Despite its usage issues, its built with reliability in mind and its a great way to transfer large files.
by miyuru 2y ago
Wonder if the author tried BitTorrent.
Despite its usage issues, its built with reliability in mind and its a great way to transfer large files.
- palata 2y agoHow do you use WhatsApp over BitTorrent? And how do you update your macOS over BitTorrent? The author clearly says that downloaders elaborate enough to deal with slow connections (e.g. "download in a browser") were fine. The problem is that modern apps don't let you download the file the way you want, they just expect you to have a fast internet connection.
- miyuru 2y agoNo, I just meant if he tried to get a large file(Linux ISO) with BitTorrent. which should be reliable in theory. Bittorent has webseeds support, which can use apples direct CDN urls to create a torrent file to download. archive.org still uses this technique and AWS S3 used to do this when they had torrent support. There a website that do just that, it creates a torrent file from any direct weburl. https://www.urlhash.com/ https://www.urlhash.com/
- Aachen 2y agoI didn't know that was possible! Thanks so much, I've got a torrent client but with so few things using bittorrent these days, it feels like innovation went backwards and it's now one-shot http downloads or bust. This will be helpful :)
- palata 2y agoI can't believe I had never heard about webseeds [1] before! Do I understand correctly that one can make a torrent from any HTTP-available file (without even owning the file) and start downloading and sharing with BitTorrent? It's incredible! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding