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Are torrents less efficient than regular downloads?

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Mar 15, 20264358 views
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When I download a file in torrents, the actual download (seen in the Ubuntu 'System Monitor') is a bit more than the download observed in the 'Transmission BitTorrent Client'. Are torrents less efficient than regular downloads? Is this because my torrent client has to talk to a number of other torr…

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Torrents work by trading a few extra bytes downloaded and some extra software complexity, CPU time, upload bandwidth, and additional active sessions in exchange for the potential to download the desired bytes at a much faster rate. So it depends on …

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