Eh, isn't that more for the decentralized part of the network? Doesn't the part of the network that connects directly to each other using tracker information directly download from the seeds?
It's kind of a weird design, if I have to have the piece I want go through multiple clients before reaching me.
What? When you connect to the tracker, it gives you a list of all the other peers in the swarm and their IP addresses. Your client then connects to some of them (not all, because if there are a lot of them then that would be more connections than your PC could handle). It is not possible to connect to every client in the swarm at once (unless it's quite a small swarm), hence this issue arises.
You should go and read up some on how bittorrent actually works. This might sound kind of technical, but it's fairly fundamental stuff.
Heh, what does it take to be paid attention to, huh? And a lot of these people complain about people's reading skills too, not to mention skipping over pinned posts. Ah, the irony...
Yeah, I really struggled to restrain myself from pointing out that irony
To be fair, the TF article linked is pretty badly written (I misunderstood it at first too), but if it sounds like the developers are doing something which would obviously be astronomically stupid, you'd think it'd be common sense to dig a little bit deeper and make sure you're understanding it right before loudly declaring it to be the death of bittorrent.
