bittorent...confused...?

Question

can someone please explain to me exactly how to use this software?

Answer 1

its like a tree. Someone uploads a file and that person's a seed.
People who attempt to download the file the person uploaded is a leecher. The leecher downloads off the seed until he reaches 100% of the ifle, and then the leecher becomes a seed too. It goes on and people share files.

Answer 2

Think of it this way:

Say you're at this very weird library. The books are divided into chapters. Everybody have some chapters, some may even have the whole book, but most have just a few chapters. However, every body can instantly give you a copy of a specific chapter, one at a time. :) So if you can find the right chapters from the right people, you can eventually assemble the whole book. That's basically how BitTorrent works.

Imagine a card in the library card catalog. That will ID this particular book you want (there could be millions of books out there!) You take it to the librarian, and the librarian consults his magic, and tells you the closest people who have the pieces you want are there, there, and there. You then go to this guy, this guy, and that guy and ask for a copy of chapter X, Y, an Z. Once you get that, you consult what you have, confer with the librarian, and work out the next set of chapters to obtain... eventually you'll get all chapters, and assemble the whole book. Cooperation and sharing is paramount. If you have a piece someone else needs, and someone else needs a piece you need, then you will trade with him and he will trade with you ahead of other people who has fewer pieces to share, and so on. It's about fairness, so to speak.

Bit torrent works just like that. A "torrent" file ID's the file (book) you're trying to locate on the BT network (the book "card"). The "tracker" (librarian) tracks who has which pieces of which file (book) and gives you a list, your BT program (BT client) determines who to trade parts of the file with. Other BT programs are talking to yours while yours talk with others. They will negotiate and eventually you'll get the whole file.

However, there is no central card catalog, so to speak. There are torrent search engines (sorry, you'll need to find them on your own, as most of them catalog both legal and illegal stuff, making them impossible to list here) and there are repositories of torrents. However, as less people share the files, the torrents can go "stale" and "die" (when there are no longer people sharing the original file). People who have the entire file are known as "seeds", and people who have only pieces are known as "leeches". Leeches eventually turn into seeds when it has assembled the whole file, of course.

So, to use your bittorrent client, you'll have to find a torrent to download, download the torrent, and load the torrent into your BT cient. The BT client will talk to the tracker, and start the negotiation process to obtain your file from the various seeds and leeches out there.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Bittorent software generally used to download or upload data in torrent form.It is easy to use. For better understanding you can download a torrent file from www.mininova.com. Select any torrent file and download it. You can downloads bittorrent from this download page or any other website. After that please open the downloaded file in bittorrent and give the path in which you want to save your data and click the minimize botton.

Answer 4

easiest one ive seen used is azureus, do a seach on google, download it then head to a torrent site, click download this torrent, save torrent then open and it will start downloading. azuerus is easy to use and very straight forward

Azureus is a perfectly legal program it is mearly a download manager for all downloads

Answer 5

Wrong category,
Bittorrent is a program thats downloads from several hosts at onece

Answer 6

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