Download Technology Breakthrough Announced

Bittorrent may have a new competitor on the block, as US researchers have announced the discovery of Similarity-Enhanced Transfer (SET) that may well offer download speeds up to 500% faster than what current exists today.

The speed of current services, like BitTorrent, is limited by the number of people sharing a specific file, such as a movie or song.

Similarity-Enhanced Transfer (SET) works by spotting chunks of identical data in files that are an exact or near match to the one needed.

Using SET the researchers have seen speed increases of up to 500%.

Read more on BBC News.