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Apr 15, 2017 Namaskar Dosto!! Is video me main aapko torrent ke kuchh common terms ke bare me bataunga jinko aap aksar sunte honge par unke bare me jaante nahi honge. Aasha karta hu aapko ye chhoti si video. How can I get total number of seeders and leechers of a torrent file with webtorrent. I am trying to make a torrent DHT crawler.
The people sharing & connected to each other using thebit-torrent protocol are split into 2 categories. SEEDS(uppers)& LEECHERS(downloaders) In the begining while downloading atorrent for the first time you are a leecher because the downloadhasn't completed. When it completes you switch to a seeder anddedicate that stream to simply uploading. The more seeds availablethe faster the download.Seeding is the process of connecting to a torrent when you havea complete file.Yes it is important to seed 1 to 1. The more seeders there areon a torrent the faster the torrent is. You are not downloading thetorrent from the actual site you get it from. You are downloadingit off another user that has it on their computer.Let's say someone uploads a torrent to a site and that personseeds at 100kbps.
At first every single leecher is trying to getthe file from the uploader which if there are 10 leechers then eachleecher is approximately getting the file at 10kbps.Let's say the 10 people finish downloading the torrent from theuploader. Each also is seeding at a speed of 100kbps.That means the total speed of the torrent after the 10 get donedownloading the file is 1100kbps. Because 10 are seeding at 100kbpsand the original uploader is seeding at 100kbps. So if there are 11more leechers getting the file now each of those leechers areapproximately getting the file at 100kbps instead of 10kbps becausethere is a 1 to 1 ratio per seeder & leecher.If everyone just downloaded the file from the uploader andstopped seeding without seeding the torrent 1:1 then the uploaderwill always be stuck seeding. Which the speed of the torrent willhardly go up because the leechers will always outnumber theseeder.So it is important to seed back at least what you take. So ifyou download a file that is 1GB then seed back 1GB. That is why itis called FILE SHARING.
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People are considerate enough to sharetheir stuff you can repay them back by seeding back what you takeso others can enjoy it as well.
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