peers and seeds

Seeds are the number of people that are uploading the file to the torrent server, sharing them for other downloaders. Peers ar the people that are currently downloading the file. Always look for the high number of seeds and low number of peers when downloading from bittorent. That way you are sure to have a much faster download.

I think you would have tried downloading some torrents with less seeds and more peers, and may be that made you frustrated despite having a fast internet connection right? Seeds refer to the number of people uploading that particular file to the torrent server and peers indicate the number of people downloading them. So i hope now you understand what you should be looking for, ie, you have to choose that torrent with more seeds and less peers. Happy downloading!!

Would you like to share files with different users located at different locations in this world wide web... If yes, torrents give a way to do that easily. Torrent is a small file (around few kilobytes) contains all the information needed to download a file, it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on.

Where comes to seed and peers:

Seed: is an user, which has the file completely downloaded and is sharing it.

Peer: is every downloading user, that doesn't have the file complete. After finishing the download becomes a seed.

Leech: is practically the same as peer, sometimes it is a label for a peer with a very low User Download ratio.

Hope this is clear with you, if you still need clarity, please PM.

In peer to peer networking there is no sever and client, so a peer act as both server and client. While sending a message a peer acts as a server and on receiving a message it acts as a client.

Actually a seed is a peer whose having 100% of the file which you are downloading. and the rest of the peers have only part of the files.

You are also one of the peer, on downloading you also have some part of the file and from you other peers take the file.

But the seed is only giving the file, there is no need of receiving the file....

see torrents as i understand is the file in cyber space. i mean its sharing and not like file is stored somewhere an then u download it. seeds is the people who have downloaded the file and r sharing and peers r person who r downloading the files from seeders. so the more seeders u have more speed and reliability.