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Comment by xerophtye | Hacker News Reader

Umm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download that data) each time i want to view that file...

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  - You don't need to seed.
  - Your ISP won't throttle your torrent packets.

You can also stream immediately without waiting for the torrent to complete.

You also avoid nasty letters from copyright lawyers, which can get you kicked off campus at some universities or even kicked out of school sadly. Of course a vpn also avoids this, or a seedbox, or newsgroups

If I understand this correctly...

You're paying 0.99/mo to ensure that you get top speeds of all torrents downloaded all the time.

Sometimes you can't get the best seeder because more powerful seeders are taking your priority. put.io is always that more powerful seeder.

It's much more expensive than $0.99/mo. That's just for a one-day trial. The cheapest plan they offer is $10/month.

The point is, if you use torrent your ISP will detect is and in best scenario it will slow down your connection.

Source: Comcast and Time Warner Cable did this to me.

As an aside, you should always force packet encryption and randomize your torrent port. That should help with throttling.

The biggest advantage from other commenters seems to be that put.io has a fairly large user base and if another user has already downloaded a torrent you want, it's available instantly in your put.io account.

> Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it?

You start streaming immediately if another put.io user already downloaded the same torrent.

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