Torrent downloads has become a widely used alternative to the internet surfers

What Is Torrent?

Torrent downloads has become a widely used alternative to the internet surfers. Especially for people - people who loved to download games and download movies that size is very large without spending money or free. Including myself who frequently download movies or PC games Giga-sized. But what is a torrent? Perhaps most surfers do not know what the purpose and intent torrent. This time I'll lay out some things about the torrent you need to know. Check this out.

What is the purpose torrent files or *. torrent file?
Torrent file is a small metafile containing information about the file you wish to download. Most of the torrent file sizes are only a few kilobytes of the file that contains, information downloads and other info. With the existence of this torrent file, allowing us to download the actual file (which diinformasi in this torrent file), so the torrent file this file is not actually the file you wish to download.

Is it peer?
Torrent file donwload process took place in a peer to peer it means that parts of the downloaded files from various kinds of computers. In another sense every computer connected to the internet and doing activities both download or upload the torrent at the same time, it is called by the peer. Each Peers usually do not have the complete file, but only provides the parts of the file.

So what Seeder and leecher?
Leecher is simply the people who have downloaded a file and once finished downloading the file he immediately disconnect or stop the process of sharing the file.
While Seeder leecher opposite of that person hold mensharing file even though he had finished downloading it, by doing things like this he has helped others to further accelerate the download of these files be shared. The existence of this seeder is very good for the survival of the world's torrent.
If you download a file, and none of the Seeder to the file, then the download of the file will not work. You only reach the download is 99% less than 100%

Swarm Is it?
A group of people whether it seeder, leecher, peers are connected or linked to one another and to download or upload a file that is called Swarm

What is Tracker?
Tracker is a server that stores data on how many seeder, leecher, peers and other info from a torrent file. Tracker identifies the location of the network of people who are downloading, uploading / sharing a file.

Is Torrent Client or BitTorrent?
Torrent or BitTorrent Client is an application or software capable of requesting, downloading or sharing via the BitTorrent protocol process. Examples are uTorrent, Azureus (Vuze) or BitComet.

So what is the purpose torrent and amenities. Hope can add to knowledge and science that benefits kawan2.