What so special in Torrents ? Downloading hub - μTorrent

Torrent files are an element of a P2P (peer to peer) trading system incorporated by easy hassle-free and effective transferring of files from one person to another on the web. Torrent files are the type of files which are downloaded from index web sites. Torrent files are extremely small files and are typically less than 25bits. To download the files, an individual has to download torrent files.

The softwares lke μtorrent are also called Client. These are applications which may be downloaded and installed on the system that the user desires to use for downloading and sharing files. Essentially the client is the actual P2P sharing program. Azureus and UTorrent are two P2P clients.

Some Common terms

Tracker There exists a central server that administers the sharing of files between its various customers is called a tracker. The trackers of many clients are built in devices.

Seeder A computer that has an entire copy of a file being requested by another computer is known as seeder. Users who wish to for instance, download an mp3, must first ensure that the tracker can find a full copy (seed) of the file that they mean to download.

Leeches This is an individual who is not sharing any files of his or her own and yet is downloading a file or files from other systems. This is considered as breaching the etiquette of cyber world.

Swarm This is an occurrence that involves several computers simultaneously downloading and sharing the very same particular file. In general, clients permit a personal computer to download a file and then upload the portions that already have been downloaded to others.

Using μtorrent

The keys you have to bother about are just the four keys in upper bar where X represents Stop, next one is to start or resume download. Other keys in queue are to pause and stop downloads.

The Left bar and bottom bar can be used to monitor download status in detail seed-wise.