Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Illustration of BitTorrent protocol

Illustration of BitTorrent protocol

Original - In this animation, the coloured bars beneath all of the 7 clients in the upper region above represent individual pieces of the file. After the initial pieces transfer from the seed (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.

Reason

Personally, I never understood how exactly the protocol worked until I saw this animated diagram. It explains it very clearly, and I was surprised myself to find it wasn't featured already.

Articles this image appears in

BitTorrent (protocol), Segmented downloading

Creator

Wikiadd

• Support as nominator --Flarn2006 (talk) 03:00, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Definitely too fast. upstateNYer 03:11, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Agree that it's too fast to allow the reader to follow it. Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:32, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose I get how bittorrent works, but this diagram doesn't capture it for me. Confusing and too fast. Stevage 12:44, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose too fast.--Avala (talk) 22:29, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Woah Nelly, that's way too fast to see what's going on clearly and I already understand Bittorrenting! Silvestra (talk) 23:41, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose I'm familiar with the protocol, and I think this represents it poorly. —Darxus (talk) 05:02, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)