Torrents key to latest filesharing technology
BitTorrent is a relatively new technology that allows sharing of files in an efficient way with limited strain on resources and with maximum redundancy. What this means to the standard computer user is less failed or corrupted downloads, less tie-up of computing power, and more opportunities for file downloads. Torrents are commonly used when huge files or groupings of files are offered for download.
Torrents are files which gives information on a download that is registered with one or more of the popular trackers. Torrents may be held in whole (a ’seed’) or in part by one or more of the other users connected to the tracker. Each user (or ‘client’) can then connect to one another and begin to download the files in the torrents. Segments of the files are taken in no particular order from no particular client. The more clients connected to the tracker with this particular torrent, the more choices there are for downloading a particular section of the file. More choices mean less resource strain on any one individual source.