About Torrents

Torrents,A Gentle way of sharing data.This is useful and also looking very efficient these days.The terminology used in torrents is very interesting.Some of the terms which we come across often in torrents are

• Seed - A Seed is an Active member of torrent who has got the complete file.As the no.of seeds increases download speed also increases.
• Peer or leecher - A peer is the Active member of the torrent who is having some part of the file or simply telling,the active member who is downloading the file.
• Seeding - This is the process of sharing the file with others.This is Actually nothing but uploading.
• Leeching - This is a process of downloading via torrent
  
• Tracker - This is a medium which enables sharing via torrents.Without using Tracker we cannot even create a proper torrent
• Ratio - This is the ratio of the amount of data uploaded to the amount downloaded
• Availability - This depends on the no.of seeds connected.This is the no.of copies of the file available at that particular moment
• clients - These are the specially made download managers for the purpose of preforming all the operations that are discussed above like seeding,leeching etc....There are many clients like utorrent,Azeureus,bitcommet,bitlord etc....But most of the torrenters prefer utorrent because of it's less memory usage.
• Upspeed - while downloading a file via internet we will not come across this term.Where as ehen you are downloading through torrents this will play major role.The down speed you are getting depends upon your up speed.If you restrict up speed then proportionally down speed will also decrease.