A short article on Torrents: Written By TuX (Site Admin)
We all have been witnessing the rise of the content distribution network – The Torrent.
It is a P2P sharing technology which enables users to share files with other users.
There are some things you need to know about before you can actually utilise the torrent network….
Seed is a user/computer which is allowing other users to download the file from it and it has finished downloading the file.
Peer is a user/computer which is downloading the file from other seeds/peers.
1. Torrent Files (.torrent extension)
2. Torrent Client (a program which can download files supporting the .torrent extension)
3. Torrent Tracker
Now we will explain you point by point so that you know about the background of the P2P network….
1. Torrent Files – The torrent files can be downloaded from many distribution sites such as bittorrent.com or ubuntu.org
(which provides ubuntu Operating System)
You can download .torrent files which are necessary to download the files. These files are small in size and some people
confuse them being actual files. So download .torrent files and keep it on your computer at a know location (e.g. Desktop)
2. Torrent Client – Many popular torrent clients are on the Internet.
The most popular are uTorrent and Azureus. uTorrent is a very lightweight client (download size is only 180KB) and uTorrent
offers good functionality and ease-of-use.
Azureus is for the power user and it offers a lot of tweaks and now comes with a new interface called Vuze which is like an
online media library which allows the users to watch or download videos and movies.
Both the torrent clients are free and the download links are provided at the end of article.
Many download managers and third party programs also have torrent file downloading capabilites but we recommend you to use
dedicated torrent downloader like the two listed above.
3. Torrent Tracker – This is the most confused concept amongst the torrent users who are currently using torrents.
A torrent tracker is a server which contains the addresses of the seeds/peers which are sharing a particular torrrent.
The tracker keeps a ‘track’ of the users which share the torrents. There are many torrent trackers on the internet. Some
trackers are provided by:
openbittorrent.com
publicbt.com
There are numerous other trackers and it is recommended to add more trackers so as to discover more peers as peers use many
different trackers.
Here is a screen-shot of uTorrent:
Screen-Shot by Tech-How.com
Here is a screen-shot of Azureus:
Screen-Shot By TuX
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Download uTorrent: >>Click Here to Download<<
Download Azureus: >>Click Here to Download<<
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