Comment by justsomehnguy
3 years ago
You don't even need to ftp it, you can run the client at home and it would connect to the seedbox through the swarm (or you can manually add a peer if needed)
3 years ago
You don't even need to ftp it, you can run the client at home and it would connect to the seedbox through the swarm (or you can manually add a peer if needed)
This misses a major point of the seedbox: that you don't have to run torrent on your residential connection.
Tell me more please.
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You add the torrent to the seedbox torrent client and your (eg) home torrent client.
They are both become part of the swarm for that torrent, through the tracker or DHT, so eventually they would know about each other.
If your seedbox dowload the chunk then you home client can connect to the seedbox client and download that chunk, just as a regular participant of the swarm, no need to do anything.
Because the seedbox has a direct connectivity then if there is a seed without a direct connectivity - it can connect to your seedbox (again, discovered through DHT or tracker) and give out all the needed chunks.
A bit slower than having a direct connectivity at you home, but most of the time it doesn't matter.
I'm having a hard time understanding the point of this setup.
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