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Basic Principles Of Torrent Protocols |
| Torrent is a peer-to-peer network environment used for sharing large amounts of files. It is one of the most widespread network environments for files distribution.A torrent means a torrent meta-data file or few files described by it and contains meta-data about all the files it makes downloadable. Meta-data files are not kept on the torrent tracker site, but are disseminated among a number of torrent host sites. Each torrent file guides to a trackers site, which centrally coordinates the P2P transfer of data among users and keeps a global registry of all the downloaders and distributors of the certain file. One tracker site can manage concurrent downloads of multiple files. Following the link to the torrent meta-data file, a user gets from the host site a list of some of the peers currently transferring pieces of the files, with whom for bartering chunks of the file.A file ready for downloading via Torrent is known as a seed. A person who has at their command the completed file and uploads or seeds it back to the web is called a Seeder. The more seeders, the better.A leecher is an individual who downloads, or leeches, the file from other people. As new leechers connect to the web and request the same file, their computer obtains a different piece of the data from the seeder. As soon as a few seeders have at their disposal a few pieces of the seed, they become a source for that portion of the file. Thus, the task spreads among the seeder and many peers, which easens the load of the original user.After the file is successfully downloaded by a given leecher, the leacher is able to become an additional seed, helping the remaining leechers to get the full file.Due to the nature of Torrent, files can be spread very quickly. For a secure and quick download, choose the torrents with more seeders than leechers, and read comments, if there are any. It will preclude you from downloading low quality or infected files. It should be mentioned, however, that torrent trackers are less prone to viruses than P2P programs.Make sure that you let your torrent-downloaded file seed so that you get a ratio of at least 1.0. This ratio means that you have seeded a file in exchange for the downloaded one. Some host sites estimate the quantity of data each user uploads and downloads, and a bad ratio can be penalized with a low download speed. Moreover, disconnecting after is a breach of the idea of cooperation, which is the core principle of Torrent. |