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Cognitive Information About Torrents Downloading |
| Date Added: February 24, 2010 01:11:38 PM |
| Author: sonfia64 |
| Category: Reference |
| Torrents are widely discussed today. But what do torrents represent? According to the most popular determination torrents are special files that are utilized in peer-to-peer (or P2P as it is usually called) network environments. A peer-to-peer signifies sharing files between personal computers using specialized programs. Bram Cohen was the inventor of the first program for P2P communication. The software was called BitTorrent, and it is considered to be amongst the best torrent clients these days. A number of other peer-to-peer programs designed to apply torrents were created later. Downloading torrents considerably differs from downloading ordinary files. In order to have a better notion of this difference you have to think over the procedure of downloading files from the server. If you are an experienced computer user you know that to download a file you have to find it in the Internet and click an appropriate link to transfer the file to your personal computer. Let's provide an explanation for what is going on when you click the link. The internet site server where the file you're downloading is disposed begins the transfer of information to your computer in separate data packets of a definite size. When reaching the PC of the visitor these data packets are reconstructed to form the file. So the procedure is rather complicated. Small files can be easily downloaded this way, but if you need to deliver a big one you are very likely to be faced with such difficulties like low speed, disturbed communication between the server and your PC etc. These complications make the procedure of downloading onerous, and result in delays or even corruption in the transfer. At the same time torrents are info that is kept on several personal computers, so while downloading torrents you get various parts of the file at the same time. It reduces the time spent on downloading and goes on downloading even in case one of the seeds disconnects. A seed is a person who has already downloaded a file and stays in the network so that other users have a possibility to download the requested file from his or her PC. Being a seed of a great number of files is advantageous because the more files you upload the faster is the downloading speed for you. As far as you understand, using torrents has a great number of advantages. Do not forget that you need to acquire a torrent client first in order to download torrents. There's a great variety of torrent clients, so pick one of them and go ahead. |
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