| These days we talk a lot about torrents. But what are torrents? Accordingly to the most widespread determination torrents are special files that are used in peer-to-peer (or P2P) network environments. A P2P signifies sharing files between computers using specially designed software. The first software for peer-to-peer communication was created by Bram Cohen. The program was called BitTorrent, and it's amidst the most popular torrent clients at present time. A great number of other peer-to-peer programs designated to use torrent files were created later.
Downloading torrents cardinally differs from downloading normal files. In order to understand better this difference you should consider the procedure of downloading files from the server.
If you're an experienced computer user you must know that to download a file you should search for it in the Internet and click an appropriate link to transfer the file to your PC. Let us illustrate what's going on when you click the link. The internet site server where the file you're downloading is presented begins the transfer of information to your PC in separate data packets. When reaching the personal computer of the client the packets are reconstructed to form the file.
So the process is rather complicated. Small files can be downloaded this way with no difficulties, but when it comes to a big one you may be faced with such difficulties as low speed, disturbed downstream connection etc. These complications make the procedure of downloading burdensome, and lead to delays or sometimes even corruption in the transfer of the file.
Torrents in their turn are info that is kept on a number of PCs, so while downloading torrents you get different parts of the file simultaneously. It shortens the time spent on downloading and continues downloading even in case one of the seeds disconnects. A person that has already downloaded a file and stays in the network so that others can download the requested file from his or her personal computer is a seed. Being a seed of numerous files is advantageous as the more files you upload the faster is the speed of downloading files.
In this way, using torrents has lots of pluses. Don't forget that you'll need to install a torrent client to download torrent files. There's a wide selection of torrent clients in the World Wide Web, so select one of them and go ahead. |
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