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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Illustration of BitTorrent protocol

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Original - In this animation, the coloured bars beneath all of the 7 clients in the upper region above represent individual pieces of the file. After the initial pieces transfer from the seed (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.
Reason
Personally, I never understood how exactly the protocol worked until I saw this animated diagram. It explains it very clearly, and I was surprised myself to find it wasn't featured already.
Articles this image appears in
BitTorrent (protocol), Segmented downloading
Creator
Wikiadd

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]