Comment by justsomehnguy
3 years ago
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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.
Seedbox has a real IP (or port forward, though that doesn't matter here) so seed and peers behind the NAT can coonect to it and transfer torrent data. Your home torrent client therefore can connect to it and receive the torrent data even if it can't connect to the seed directly.