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I'll admit that I tend to completely geek out on the way Torrent exposes all the inner workings of the BitTorrent protocol in such a beautiful, highly visual way.

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Most of this is also explained in the official uTorrent FAQ, and it goes into greater detail, too. With such large amounts of data in play, managing disk caches and optimizing disk activity is unusually important. This torrent is over 8 GB in size, for example.

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BitTorrent is designed to download enormous files. BitTorrent is a shared download, so you're supposed to give as much as you get – although altruism is difficult to enforce.Īnother section of the Speed Tab shows an incredibly detailed breakdown of disk activity. On the Speed Tab, we can view a history of transfer rates over time, including both upload and download speeds. Dark blue means downloaded light blue means requested but not yet downloaded. On the Pieces Tab, we can see the real-time state of the current pieces we're downloading from our peers in the swarm. uTorrent conveniently does a DNS lookup and shows little flags next to each peer, so you can get a sense of how global the BitTorrent protocol really is. Given enough peers, downloads are fast for everyone. These are our fellow peers and seeds, sharing whatever bits of the data they have with everyone else in the swarm. On the Peers Tab, we can get a glimpse into the democratic nature of the BitTorrent protocol. This will prevent me from becoming a seed, but it dramatically shortens my download time. Since I already rented all the season 1 DVDs, I set all the season 1 epsiodes to skip, and I switched the particular season 2 episode I wanted to 'high'. Or, you can set them to 'skip' if you don't want to retrieve those files. Well, roughly – the torrent protocol retrieves in random order from whatever's available in the peer swarm, so order is never guaranteed. You can also tag files with a priority, so they're retrieved in a particular order. The blue sections indicate parts of the file that have been successfully downloaded green sections indicate parts of the file that are being downloaded right now. There's a nice little graphic next to each file that shows how many pieces of the files have been downloaded. On the Files Tab, we can see the state of individual files in the torrent. If a torrent loses all its seeds, it is in deep trouble. The other 19 peers will remain peers until they manage to download 100% of the data, and then they become seeds too. It's no coincidence that there are also 6 peers with a complete copy of the data – these critically important peers are known as 'seeds'. An availability of 5.93 indicates there are almost 6 complete copies of the torrent data in the swarm. That's the minimum, assuming you want to download everything. It's also indicated numerically an availability of 1 means the entire file is available. The darker the bars, the more copies of that particular section are available in the swarm. In our case, the availability graphic is a nice, solid blue – there are no red bars indicating missing sections. That's important, because the biggest weakness of the torrent system is that it requires a certain level of popularity to work at all. On the General Tab, we can see that the torrent is fairly well seeded. Let's take a quick visual tour through the main tabs in uTorrent I'll point out the most interesting parts.

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I love poring over the torrent metrics they're beautifully presented – an excellent example of how to visually depict a complex set of data in a meaningful way. However, as good as the web UI is, it pales in comparison to the incredibly deep informatics that uTorrent provides on the state of your BitTorrent download. I've talked before about the remarkable parity between the uTorrent web user interface and the windows user interface. I was able to locate a torrent of all the Boomtown episodes, and I'm downloading it now. What's a poor, law-abiding citizen of the United States of America to do?īitTorrent to the rescue. In this case, it was cancelled right in the middle of season two – and the incomplete season was never released on DVD. Unfortunately, Boomtown, like so many other great shows, was cancelled in its prime.

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I recently rented the television series Boomtown from Netflix, but I belatedly realized that the particular episode I really wanted to see was a part of season two. By some estimates, torrent data may account for as much as 35% of all internet traffic. Everybody loves BitTorrent, and I love it too. It's such a joy to use – a tiny, native application that offers a best-of-breed implementation of the BitTorrent protocol.