On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of the *theory*: BitTorrent hashes each chunk and automatically verifies them. But I'm curious to know if that makes a difference in *practice*, since someone mentioned it as a significant advantage of BitTorrent over HTTP.
TCP checksums each packet, so I'm not even sure bittorrent is more reliable in theory.