What are seeds and peers in Utorrent?

What are peers, seeds, and trackers in uTorrent?

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    A peer is one instance of a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet to which other clients connect and transfer data. A Seed is used to refer to a peer who has 100% of the data. A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm.

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A tracker allows a download to start and to connect with other people. (It tracks). Seeders have the file downloaded at %100 complete and are uploading it. Peers have the file downloaded, but it's not finished, they can still upload what they got to others.

Skylinez

Peers are people who are downloading the same file as you, they may be uploading part of the file that they have already downloaded. Seeders are people who have completed the download and are uploading the file, the higher this number the quicker your download will be. Trackers are server that track the torrent files and connect you to seeders and/or beneficial peers.

Elliott

Seeds The owner of the file then opens the new torrent file in his torrent client. The torrent client is like a cross between a Web browser and Windows Explorer. The client contacts the tracker and notifies it of the existence of the file and its location. The torrent also should be advertised in torrent directory sites in order to be found by others. Once someone wanting the file finds the torrent file and opens it in his or her torrent client, the client contacts the tracker, finds the address of the file owner and starts copying it, block by block. When a torrent is being downloaded, it is said to be a "seed." The owner is a "seeder," who is "seeding" the file. Peers The group of people downloading the same torrent is called a "swarm." Each member of the swarm is called a "peer." Peers not only all copy the file from the seed, they also copy sections of the file from each other, even though the other peers have not completed downloading the entire file. Once a block of the file has been copied onto another computer, it is available as a second source for others to copy. By this method, different blocks are available from different sources. Trackers are people that you upload from the more trackers the more the speed

Paul

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