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Benefits Of Using Torrents |
| Date Added: February 20, 2010 01:34:04 PM |
| Author: sonfia64 |
| Category: Information and Reference |
| Today we talk a lot about torrents. But what are torrents? According to the most popular determination torrents are specialized files that are applied in peer-to-peer (or P2P like it is generally called) network environments. A peer-to-peer signifies sharing files between personal computers using specially designed programs. The first software for peer-to-peer communication has been created by Bram Cohen. The program was called BitTorrent, and it is considered to be amidst the most popular torrent clients today. A number of other peer-to-peer programs designed to use torrents were invented later. Torrents download significantly differs from downloading ordinary files. In order to get a better notion of this difference you have to consider the procedure of files download from the server. In case you're a computer user you must know that to download a file you have to search for it in the World Wide Web and click an appropriate link to transfer the file to your computer. Let's explain what's going on when you click the link. The web page server where the file you are going to download is disposed begins the transfer of information to your personal computer in separate data packets. When reaching the personal computer of the visitor these packets are reconstructed to constitute the file. So the process is quite complicated. Small files can be easily downloaded this way, but when it comes to a big one you may face with such difficulties like low speed, disturbed communication between your PC and the server and so on. These difficulties make the procedure of downloading cumbersome, and lead to delays or sometimes corruption in the transfer of the file. At the same time torrents are info that is stored on several PCs, so when downloading torrents you receive different parts of the file simultaneously. It reduces the time spent on downloading and goes on downloading even if one of the seeds disconnected. A person that has already downloaded a file and stays in the network so that others can download the requested file from his or her PC is called a seed. Being a seed of numerous files is advantageous as the more files you share the faster is the downloading speed. So, applying torrent files has a lot of benefits. Do not forget that you need to acquire a torrent client first so as to download torrent files. There's a big choice of free torrent clients in the Internet, so select one of them and go ahead. |
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