BitTorrent

RSS and BitTorrent are the two Web technologies I vote to have the biggest impact on this first decade of the new millennium. Both contribute to the fundamental shift in the way we receive and consume information. RSS completely alters the information delivery process, while BitTorrent takes advantage of bandwidth we all pay for but [...]

Your home network probably isn’t optimized for BitTorrent. How do I know? Most people install the software, search for the torrent they want to download and initiate the download without ever taking the steps to configure the network for optimal downloading. Optimization does make a difference. It requires a few setting tweaks in the software [...]