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What is the difference between devices such as Thunder and ordinary HTTP? thank you

Ordinary HTTP download does not support breakpoint continuation, that is to say, if the file you downloaded directly is too large and the download time is too long, if the network is unstable or interrupted in the middle, you can't continue downloading before the network is unblocked. (because it uses a single thread)

Downloader can avoid this problem through multipoint connection (P2P).

This is the most basic difference between the two