I often see people asking what BT is on Baidu.

BT, the full name of BitTorrent, is a new downloading model developed by foreigners. The traditional download model is limited by server bandwidth. The more people there are, the slower the speed. The characteristic of BT is that the more people download the same file at the same time, the higher the average download speed for each person.

BT download is a P2P software with open source code for multi-point downloading. It adopts the multi-point to multi-point transmission principle and is suitable for downloading larger files such as movies. Downloading using BT is different from downloading using traditional HTTP sites or FTP sites. As the number of downloading users increases, the downloading speed will become faster. Based on this feature, using BT to download the latest movies, software, etc. has a great advantage in speed. The BT download software is very easy to use. After the software has been installed, you only need to find the torrent file (*.torrrent) corresponding to the file you want to download on the Internet, click it and follow the steps prompted by the system to start downloading.

How does BT work?

BT first divides a file into multiple parts on the uploader side. Client A randomly downloads the Nth part on the server, and Client B randomly downloads the Mth part on the server.

In this way, A's BT will go to B's computer to get the M part that B has downloaded, and B's BT will go to A's computer to get the M part that A has already downloaded. N part.

Will BT downloading be faster than http and FTP?

In principle, BT's advanced download method reduces the load on the server and speeds up the client's download speed. So the more people download BT, the faster it will be. In the traditional server download method, the speed depends on your bandwidth and the bandwidth allocated to you by the server.

What are seeds?

The seeds are the netizens who provide you with downloads, and the number of seeds this file has means how many netizens are downloading and uploading it at the same time.

How to download?

BT needs to use its special software to download

After installing the software, what next?

After installing the software, we need to go to some websites that provide BT seeds. The specific tutorial is "Teaching you to find online BT resources"

BT downloading is so slow!

Are you on the intranet? Usually the internal network cannot respond to the connection requests of some external network users, so part of the download speed will be lost.

If you are on an external network, please pay attention to the seed number of the file you download.

Are there many seeds? Why is it still slow?

Because many software now have upload restriction functions, some users who are afraid of BT frequently reading and writing hard disks or have weak awareness of *** limit the upload speed while downloading, so there may be slow downloads if there are many seeds. of.

Will BT damage the hard drive?

This issue is highly debated in the BT community, and there is still no very unified conclusion. But in any case, as long as you use the hard drive moderately, the lifespan is generally very long.

In addition, there are things you need to pay attention to when using BT. The first thing is to choose the right download software. There are many common software, here are two recommended ones: BitSpirit and GreedBT. The editor feels that these two models are quite good during use. Both softwares can be downloaded from all major software websites. However, because the transmission method adopted by BT is different from the traditional download mode, it requires users to use the public network, which means that friends on the intranet will not be able to use it or the speed will be very slow. So are intranet users unable to use it? The editor recommends intranet users to use BC (BitComet).

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that when downloading something released in BT form, pay attention to whether there is a "seed (SEED)" and "connection". With seeds but no connection, the download task can be completed, but the speed may be slower. If there is a connection but no seed, the download task will most likely not be completed.