Thank you for your time, efforts and consideration.When using torrents to share files, you get file fragments from various other machines who already have those fragments (we call these machines seeders). It improves quality of services and reduces overhead for all parties. I believe that these suggestions would be easy to implement and benefit both the content provider (XnView) and the end user, regardless of their internet service provider, or speed. Mobile devices are being used as sources for internet service. After the 4th attempt, I got a complete, valid download. Another download was 'completed' but was corrupt. One attempt stalled near the end and was unable to resume so I had to start over. The website does not allow downloads to pause and resume, and it took a number of attempts to complete.

These suggestions come partly because I attempted to download XnViewMP from a throttled 3G connection (about 15Kbps). Torrents can be hosted 100% legitimately and at no cost through several public/free torrent trackers, or with little very little effort/resources to host a torrent tracker. The most reliable method for slower, less reliable connections (such as mobile 3G/4G) where data can be dropped.

Torrents are pause-able and resumable.Ĭan be downloaded with maximum bandwidth for faster connections

The download will be more reliable because torrents are downloaded in smaller chunks, each checksummed for validity.

torrent file is downloaded from a trusted source and an hash is also provided for it.Ī torrent will offload a great deal of bandwidth from the web servers as users who are downloading, and who have downloaded (are seeding the files) will share in providing the data. I would like to request that hashes be provided for the files (md5/sha1, etc) for the files available for download to ensure their authenticity and validity upon completing a download.Īlso, an option to download via Torrent has many benefits as well, providing the.

Add torrent by hash