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Portal Diskussion:Segmented downloading
{{Unreferenced|date=October 2008}}
'''Segmented downloading''' (also known as '''multisource downloading''' OR '''swarming download''') can be a more efficient way of [[downloading]] [[Computer file|file]]s from many peers at once.  The one single file is downloaded, in parallel, from several distinct sources or uploaders of the file.  This can help a group of users with [[asymmetric]] connections, such as [[ADSL]] to (contracted; show full)
* Satellite direct to home subscription systems deployed in Europe and North America have employed an approach up upgrading software on customer devices by only sending a few bytes at a time (~2k or less) over a long period of time. Generally these segmented upload approaches are proprietary and related to the [[
Subscriber Identity Module|SIM]] card security and subscription mechanism.

With respect to Direct To Home TV systems using segmented uploading to outwit "hackers" &mdash; only SkyTV (UK) and DirecTV (USA) have been possibly linked to having the capability to do so or have done so in the past. However, one can assume that any modern [[MPEG2]] [[Digital Video Broadcasting|DVB]] DTH mass subscriber system has the ability to accept software upgrades trickled to it at the rate of 64kb/day or less.

== Examples ==
* [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]]
* [[Download Manager]]
* [[Swarmcast]]
* [[KaZaA]]
* [[RevConnect]]
* [[Metalink]]
* [[Direct Connect (file sharing)]]

== See also ==
* [[Peercasting]]

{{Download managers}}

[[Category:Data transmission]]
[[Category:File sharing]]