The Concept of TORRENT

Hellofriends ,now a days probabbly torrents are the best way to download any thing.So considering this and for the newbies i am explaining the basic functionality of torrent:

Torrents are the way forward in peer to peer sharing.

The torrent you downloaded is a tiny file (about 1 kb or 100kb, right?)

What this does is link you to all the other people on the network with the same file.
You need to open it with Azeureus or BitTorrent(google it) or something like that.

What happens is to start with, someone has the whole file, and this whole file (the LP album for example) is split up into ten peices (its actually alot more but i’ll keep it simple)

Then ten people connect to this network.

This master server uploads one peice of the file to each of the people that connected.

Then everybody has one peice. After this, the master servers job is done and it can go home.

Then each of these people then ‘swap’ a peice with another user. I.E. everyone has TWO pieces…
Then they keep swapping bits they have for bits they dont until everyone has all ten pieces.

This method almost negates demand on the master server, it only needs to upload it once, and from then on, the job does itself.

This is why torrents are usually slow to start with but pick up huge speeds later on and slow down again at the end, as at first, you don’t have many pieces to swap, and the last pieces are slightly harder to come by.

These are the basic terms used in torrent:

Seeders > uploader
Leechers >>> dowloaders
Peers>>> how many ppl are downloadingand uploading

snap shot of utorrent is shown above