Bittorrent is a peer to peer protocol for sharing files over the internet. Bittorrent reduces the bandwidth costs required to distribute a file over the internet by allowing users to upload to new users once they have downloaded the file. Rather than leave a computer on all the time to seed torrents, I decided to install the Transmission Bittorrent client on my Netgear WNR3500L router, and put that USB port to good use.
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Most people think of their home router as simply the little black box with the flashy lights that provides the house with internet. They’d be correct, but there is whole lot more that those black little boxes can do. It is possible to run an embedded version of Linux on selected (mainly Linksys) models. This means that you can make your router perform the same tasks as a dedicated Linux server in your network, at a fraction of the energy costs.
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