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Patrick Keating, I have been running Torrent in its various versions for years
My uTorrent suddenly stopped downloading anything.
Answered Dec 6, 2015
All it shows is that torrent is "connecting to peers" and
You have received some very good answers here. I would just like to mention the nothing else happens. What should...

importance of the seed. If there isn't at least one person who possesses the Is it necessary to seed and peer in utorrent?
complete le or set of les and is willing to make that set available, you may be
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wasting your time trying to download it. I have several potentially interesting
Why is the download speed in uTorrent slow, even
downloads hanging now, waiting for the nal part or parts. This can be when many seeds are connected?
particularly painful if you get into the 90th percentile and the download just
My uTorrent is unable to connect to peers.What
dies. I have some Charles Ives hanging
Still looking at 99.9%!
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Schulho set is hanging at should I do?

97.5%. I use the Torrent feature where the program adds ".!ut" to the le names How do I speed up Utorrent?
until the le is complete. This makes it easy to spot the problem les. But there
How do I add trackers in uTorrent and how will adding
isn't much to be done with such les, particularly if you collect primarily trackers help me?
classical music where a bad track makes the whole composition useless.
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Torrent, like all of the torrent clients that I know of, maximizes speed by
downloading "parts" in a totally random order. And these "parts" may be
internal to movements in a work. So 10 missing sectors may break 10 dierent
works. In the Schulho set mentioned above I am missing only 2.5% of the set,
but not one work is complete on the two CDs. What to do about this? I can't
recommend not trying, even if your torrent indexer says that there are no seeds
currently active. If I see something really interesting and there are supposedly
no seeds, I try anyway and am sometimes pleasantly surprised. The "DTS" and
"local peer" systems can sometimes nd a seed that the indexers don't know
about. But if there's just one seed and he or she disappears before the whole
download is complete, be prepared to every now and then have your heart
broken. :)

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Torrents are peer-to-peer le transfer protocol. That means, there is no central
source for the les, people download les which are being uploaded by others
(in real time).

Seeds: Number of peers who have already downloaded the les, and are
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currently uploading them. utorrent file via internet? If yes, how?

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Peers (or Leechers): A leecher is any peer that does not have the entire le and
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is downloading the le. language?

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Trackers: A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in All it shows is that torrent is "connecting to peers" and
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the swarm (swarm: all peers sharing a torrent - uploading or downloading).
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Pieces: This refers to the torrented les being divided up into equal specic How do I stop seeding my files on uTorrent?

sized pieces (e.g., 64kB, 128kB, 512kB, 1MB, 2MB or 4MB). The pieces are Why is the download speed in uTorrent slow, even
distributed in a random fashion among peers in order to optimize trading when many seeds are connected?

eciency. My uTorrent is unable to connect to peers.What

should I do?

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Sai Ram
Answered Sep 1, 2015

Tracker :
A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm.

Seeder/Seed :
A Seeder or Seed is a is a peer that has an entire copy of the torrent and oers it
for upload. The more seeders there are, the better the chances of getting a higher
download speed.

Peer:
A peer is a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet to which
other clients connect and transfer data. a peer is usually one with incomplete
data.

Leech :
A leech is a client who is downloading the le from the network. In some cases
leech is the term used for clients with a negative impact on the system i.e. the
ones who download the les but avoid having them as a seed ,thus aecting the
over all share-ratio.

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Sylvan Roshan Cordero, Movie downloader, torrent user. utorrent file via internet? If yes, how?
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A BitTorrent client is any program that implements the BitTorrent protocol.
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Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of language?
computer le over a network, using the protocol.
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A peer is any computer running an instance of a client.
To share a le or group of les, a peer rst creates a small le called a "torrent" Is it necessary to seed and peer in utorrent?

(e.g. MyFile.torrent). This le contains metadata about the les to be shared and How do I stop seeding my files on uTorrent?
about the tracker, the computer that coordinates the le distribution.
Why is the download speed in uTorrent slow, even
when many seeds are connected?

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Peers that want to download the le must rst obtain a torrent le for it and
connect to the specied tracker, which tells them from which other peers to
download the pieces of the le.
Though both ultimately transfer les over a network, a BitTorrent download
diers from a classic download (as is typical with an HTTPor FTP request, for
example) in several fundamental ways:
BitTorrent makes many small data requests over dierent IP
connections to dierent machines, while classic downloading is
typically made via a single TCP connection to a single machine.

BitTorrent downloads in a random or in a "rarest-rst"[12] approach that

ensures high availability, while classic downloads are sequential.

Taken together, these dierences allow BitTorrent to achieve much lower cost to
the content provider, much higher redundancy, and much greater resistance to
abuse or to "ash crowds" than regular server software. However, this
protection, theoretically, comes at a cost: downloads can take time to rise to full
speed because it may take time for enough peer connections to be established,
and it may take time for a node to receive sucient data to become an eective
uploader. This contrasts with regular downloads (such as from an HTTP server,
for example) that, while more vulnerable to overload and abuse, rise to full
speed very quickly and maintain this speed throughout.

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In general, BitTorrent's non-contiguous download methods have prevented it
from supporting progressive download or "streaming playback"

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Joaquin Breslin
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Is it necessary to seed and peer in utorrent?
Based on my understandings, Seeds are the peers (with the complete data of the
le that is being downloaded) that are seeding by uploading the le in real-time. How do I stop seeding my files on uTorrent?

The peers who doesnt have the complete data, which are downloading, are Why is the download speed in uTorrent slow, even
Leechers/Peers which gives negative eect to other Leechers/Peers (Like two when many seeds are connected?

kids ghting over a toy. The more kids, the worse the ght will become, over a My uTorrent is unable to connect to peers.What
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toy. As in, the more Leechers/Peers that are downloading, the worse the
download speed will become for other Leechers/Peers, over a data.). When How do I speed up Utorrent?

Leechers/Peers completed the download, they will become the Seeds (This can How do I add trackers in uTorrent and how will adding
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be noticed especially in uTorrent. After downloading, the bar will show
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Seeds, the better the download, the more Leechers/Peers, the worse the
download.

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Sameer Kumar
Answered Feb 6

Leech

Simply describing a peer or any client that does not have 100% of the data.

Peer

A peer is one instance of a UTorrent client running on a computer on the

Internet to which other clients connect and transfer data.

Seeder

A seed refers to a machine possessing some part of the data. A peer or

downloader becomes a seed when it starts uploading the already downloaded
content for other peers to download from. This includes any peer possessing
100% of the data or a web seed. When a downloader starts uploading content,
the peer becomes a seed.

Tracker

A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers. Clients report
information to the tracker periodically and in exchange, receive information
about other clients to which they can connect. The tracker is not directly
involved in the data transfer and does not have a copy of the le.

Piece

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This refers to the torrented les being divided up into equal specic sized pieces
(e.g., 64kB, 128kB, 512kB, 1MB, 2MB or 4MB). The pieces are distributed in a
random fashion among peers in order to optimize trading eciency.

Hope it helped you to understand terms.

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Rahul Patel, works at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Answered Apr 16, 2016 What are seeds, peers and leeches in Torrents'
language?
What is a seeder?
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Often, leecher is synonymous with downloader simply describing a peer or any
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client that does not have 100% of the data. The term leech also refers to a peer
Is it necessary to seed and peer in utorrent?
(or peers) that has a negative eect on the swarm by having a very poor share
ratio, downloading much more than they upload. How do I stop seeding my files on uTorrent?

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What are seeds and peers in utorrent? when many seeds are connected?

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Seed is a person who has a torrent le open in their client (let's say the same le
should I do?
you are trying to download) and the only dierence between you and them is
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that they have the complete le downloaded already and are now "seeding" -
sharing the le with peers but not downloading any parts of the le from others. How do I add trackers in uTorrent and how will adding
trackers help me?

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The term leech also refers to a peer (or peers) that has a negative eect on the
swarm by having a very poor share ratio, downloading much more than they
upload. Leeches may be on asymmetric Internet connections or do not leave
their BitTorrent client open to seed the le after their download has completed.

What is the use of seeding in bittorrent?

Seeding is where you leave your BitTorrent client open after you've nished your
download to help distribute it (you distribute the le while downloading, but it's
even more helpful if you continue to distribute the full le even after you have
nished downloading).

Piece :

This refers to the torrented les being divided up into equal specic sized pieces
(e.g., 64kB, 128kB, 512kB, 1MB, 2MB or 4MB). The pieces are distributed in a
random fashion among peers in order to optimize trading eciency.

Tracker :

A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm.
Clients report information to the tracker periodically and in exchange, receive
information about other clients to which they can connect. The tracker is not
directly involved in the data transfer and does not have a copy of the le.

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Utsav Thakur
Updated Feb 5, 2015

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1. Seed is a person who has a torrent le open in their client (let's say the
same le you are trying to download) and the only dierence between
you and them is that they have the complete le downloaded already
and are now "seeding" - sharing the le with peers but not downloading
any parts of the le from others.
Can anyone track a computer which is seeding a
utorrent file via internet? If yes, how?
2. Leech also refers to a peer (or peers) that has a negative eect on the
swarm by having a very poor share ratio, downloading much more than What are the top 5 best torrent sites for eBooks?

they upload. Leeches may be on asymmetric Internet connections or What are seeds, peers and leeches in Torrents'
language?
do not leave their BitTorrent client open to seed the le after their
download has completed. My uTorrent suddenly stopped downloading anything.
All it shows is that torrent is "connecting to peers" and
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Aditya Pattani, Programmer by profession. Gamer by heart
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Answered Apr 7, 2015

Originally Answered: When I download any file from torrent, I come across words like seeds and peers, Why is the download speed in uTorrent slow, even
when many seeds are connected?
what are they and what do they do?
My uTorrent is unable to connect to peers.What
Basically, seeds means a person who has completed downloaded the le and is should I do?
currently allowing you to download the same le by sharing the complete le.
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On the other hand, peers are the people who are currently downloading the le
How do I add trackers in uTorrent and how will adding
and actively sharing the parts which have been downloaded by him/her. trackers help me?
High number of both of them will provide a better speed for download.
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Avinash Nagamalla
Answered May 15, 2016

Tracker :
A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm.

Seeder/Seed :
A Seeder or Seed is a is a peer that has an entire copy of the torrent and oers it
for upload. The more seeders there are, the better the chances of getting a higher
download speed.

Peer:
A peer is a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet to which
other clients connect and transfer data. a peer is usually one with incomplete
data.

Leech :
A leech is a client who is downloading the le from the network. In some cases
leech is the term used for clients with a negative impact on the system i.e. the
ones who download the les but avoid having them as a seed ,thus aecting the
over all share-ratio.

Torrent Terminology - A Detailed List of Terms Used in Torrents

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Answered May 9, 2016

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