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Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by anonymfus on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:09AM (#13470691)
Most clients support this in some way. In qBittorrent it's a context menu option, for example.
Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by masklinn on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:56AM (#13471280)
Likewise Tixati, on a per-file basis you can ask for a sequential download (prioritise downloading the file in sequential order) and "head and tail" (further prioritise the first and last 500k, as some file formats require a header and a footer to start using).