Talk:Similarity Enhanced Transfer

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This has just been copied from the BBC article which is likely to cause problems.86.128.198.198 10:09, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
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This is a somewhat speculative article. It hasn't as of this date been implemented in Bittorrent or any other clients. It's also something of a stub, with its contents already mentioned concisely in the BitTorrent protocol article. So it needs more meat. --Lexein 05:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
* Let me rephrase that, this is a higly speculative article. The only piece of information would be In tests, SET improved the transfer time of an MP3 music file by 71% and a 55Mb movie trailer went 30% faster using the researchers' techniques to draw from movie trailers that were 47% similar. So the only piece of information is an unverified claim based on a single experiment that used a fixed set of data. Xfxfxs 17:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Them we need others info about this technique that, can be very interesting, we are tested some new thinks about when we have the result will put in this page. alepht 13:27, September 11 2007 (UTC)
when?
so why isn't it implemented in BT and other P2P yet? what's the delay or obstacle?--Sonjaaa (talk) 11:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
: The current code isn't usable yet. That's why I'm making a total new version from the ground up with better usability: http://www.flox-network.com Neglacio (talk) 19:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
uh, what?
So, let me get this straight. If parts of the file are not available, it will look in other files to see if it can find something that closely matches it? That's how the explanation reads. That is one of the most retarded things I have ever heard of. Implementing an automatic compression system would be much more useful considering the amount of uncompressed data transferred via BT these days. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.43.251.226 (talk) 23:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
: It searches in other files for parts that are exactly the same. As you might not know, this happens A LOT in P2P systems. A compression system on the other hand can even make files bigger (try to rar a divx encoded movie) and takes up a lot of pressure from the pc's. Choose wisely. Neglacio (talk) 02:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
:: But compression systems work by searching in files for parts that are the same! And as you correctly observe, and already-compressed file removes all these similar parts. No sane real life bittorrent download is going to contain identical blocks. Either something is missing from the explanation or OP is correct in saying that it is retarded. Edit: I skimmed the paper and now understand what they are talking about. I will update the article so it sounds less silly. 86.137.8.88 (talk) 21:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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