peer seeds

**Luck619** · 23rd July 2011, 02:45 PM

assalam o alaikum dosto.torrent me peer seeds kya cheez hai.

**KHANZZzzz** · 23rd July 2011, 05:59 PM

Assalam O Alikum,

A seed is someone that has the entire file and is looking to share it with others. Primarily, in most torrents (especially if the torrent is more than a couple days old), you will be downloading from seeds.

Peers, sometimes referred to as "leechers", are people that need parts of the file to complete it (whether it's one tiny bit or the whole thing), and need to get it from others. Usually peers get it from seeds but if there are many peers or few seeds peers will share with each other in order to make the download as quick as possible.

Quite simply, the greater the number of seeds/peers, the more download sources you have, so the quicker the download. If you have more peers you will be able to upload more- important if you are altruistic or if you are on a private tracker that requires you to maintain a ratio (a .7 ratio minimum would mean that you had to upload 7/10 of a megabyte for every megabyte you downloaded).

Oh, and the # (bigger #) thing means seeds/peers you are connected to and the parentheses mean (seeds/peers total).

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Seeds are systems that are making the file available. The seed systems are tracked, and the number in parenthesis indicates how many of all the seeds are on line right now.

Peers are usually systems that are downloading the file. The don't seed because they don't have the entire file available. However, as they download from the seeds, they also make the file available to other downloaders.

The speed of a torrent increases because there are more available locations to get the file.

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* Seed: a peer who has 100% of the torrent and is only uploading to other peers. Seed is also used as a verb, as in "I'm going to be seeding this file overnight", meaning leave open and available for other users to download. Usually, a person with the whole file is a 'seed', while someone with a partial amount is a peer. Remember that a seed is not a file server. We're not talking about "magic seeds" here, so get any idea like that out of your mind. Connecting to more seeds does not necessarily mean that you'll finish downloading any faster. If you don't connect to all the seeds in a swarm, or even if you don't connect to any seeds, it does not mean Azureus is doing anything wrong. For any random torrent, you might download faster when connected only to 5 other peers and no seeds than you might with some other random torrent while connected to 50 seeds and no other peers. Seeding torrents improves your Share Ratio.

Peer

* Peer: a person who is participating in file sharing. That is, a person who is transferring a file using P2P technology. Peers who have not already downloaded 100% of the torrent upload to other peers and download from them, while seeds just upload to other peers, improving their own Share Ratio that way to prevent becoming a leech.

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Defined VIA THREE DIFFERENT AUTHORS RESOURCES.

First VUZE
2nd UTORRENT
3rd BITTORENT