Why is it seemingly faster to torrent?
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Torrents work via P2P, which means peer to peer. How it works is that your torrent client doesn’t talk to a single server. For example, on youtube, a video is hosted at the youtube servers in some building owned by google, that keeps logs and statistics, etc. When you want to watch that video, you have to connect to youtube’s servers. With P2P, everyone shares the responsibility of serving the content. Instead of you downloading from one computer, you’re downloading from a bunch of different people. All these people share the brunt of giving you the content you want, and when you’re done downloading, your client then contributes in serving it to other people who are downloading.
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