what does seeds and peers mean in torrent?

Question

I'm trying to upload something and it took me at least 3 days but then the seeding and peering didn't finish. I have no clue what their for or what it means, so please help!

Answer 1

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).



Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Seeds are having 100% file and peers may not be having full file as soon as they have full file ie 100 % they become seeds The number out of parenthesis shows how many are connected at that time when you are checking and what ever is shown in the parenthesis is the total number of seeds and peers The number of peers and seeds connected gives you the download and upload speed as all of them are servers as well as your pc also is a server because torrent file sharing is a shareware program

Answer 3

A seed refers to uploader. Someone who is uploading the torrent and it's contents.

A peer is a user; you, me or whomever connects to download the torrent.

A leecher is a user who only downloads and doesn't upload, this causes bad share ratio and the file becomes less available because there isn't any multiple sources to download from which is required when you download using torrents.

(If you connect to the tracker, you become a peer)



Torrents is a well known method of filesharing.

You can setup a torrent, upload it to a tracker and download it from the network.



People (peers) connect to your torrent and a list of available sources to download the content of the torrent becomes available, this is called connecting to the DHT (Decentralized Hub Network) network and swarm (current group of users uploading/downloading the same torrent).



This depends on how many users are 'seeding', or, uploading the torrent back onto the tracker.

The more the torrent is re-uploaded the more copies of the file become available and the quicker you can connect to multiple locations (other users) and download the torrent, because the content is readily available.

Answer 4

when u start a torrent it get the thing from various people having that document /movie etc

the person who ask the document is peer

and the person who are giving document is called seeder

once u download something u also become a seeder

it may be possible that when u downloaded that thing u were seeding it also so it took to much time

Answer 5

seed - people with full copys of the data



peer- people with incomplete copys of the data, if they download all the data they become seeds.