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Understanding Bit Torrent Mechanics

This document provides an overview of the BitTorrent protocol. It describes BitTorrent as peer-to-peer file sharing technology that allows users to download files from each other. It explains key concepts such as torrent files, trackers, seeds, and leeches. The document also outlines how to install and configure a BitTorrent client, find torrent files, and download files using the BitTorrent network. It concludes that BitTorrent improves download speeds for large files by downloading from multiple peers simultaneously.

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Understanding Bit Torrent Mechanics

This document provides an overview of the BitTorrent protocol. It describes BitTorrent as peer-to-peer file sharing technology that allows users to download files from each other. It explains key concepts such as torrent files, trackers, seeds, and leeches. The document also outlines how to install and configure a BitTorrent client, find torrent files, and download files using the BitTorrent network. It concludes that BitTorrent improves download speeds for large files by downloading from multiple peers simultaneously.

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Submitted By

TUSHAR M. KASALE
Guided By

Prof. S. J. ALASPURKAR

Index

What is Bit Torrent?


Peer-to-Peer file sharing
What Bit Torrent does?
How Bit Torrent works?
Installing & Configuring Bit Torrent
Finding & Downloading .torrent files
Conclusion

What is Bit Torrent


Introduction :Bit Torrent, an American corporation that develops
Internet content distribution technology based on the Bit
Torrent protocol

Traditional Client-Server
Downloading

Peer-to-peer File Sharing

Gnutella's peer-to-peer download process

What Bit Torrent Does?


Leeches - People who download files but do not share

files on their own computer with others


Seed/Seeder - A computer with a complete copy of
a Bit Torrent file
Swarm - A group of computers simultaneously sending
or receiving the same file
.torrent - A pointer file that directs your computer to the
file you want to download
Tracker - A server that manages the Bit Torrent file
transfer process

How Bit Torrent works?

Bit Torrent's peer-to-peer download process

Installing & Configuring Bit


Torrent
Download and install the Bit Torrent client
software.
Check and configure firewall and/or router for
Bit Torrent.
Find files to download.
Download and open the .torrent pointer file.
Let Bit Torrent give and receive pieces of the
file.
Stay connected after the download completes
to share your .torrent files with other

Installing & Configuring Bit


Torrent
Downloading Client Software
open source s\ w

Check & Configure Firewall

It is

Finding and Downloading


.torrent Files

Disadvantages :At least one computer must be connected to


internet & running file sharing s/w.
Leeches, limits the number of computers
that software can search for the requested
file.
It can D/L .torrent links only.

Advantages : By downloading multiple pieces at the same


time, the overall speed is greatly improved.

The more computers involved in the


Swarm, the faster the file transfer
occurs.

Conclusion :One of the big advantages of Bit Torrent is


the high level of integrity of both the content and
the meta-data due to the working of its global
components.
The Bit Torrent program itself both
legal and innovative. So Bit Torrent is especially
useful downloading for large, popular files using
available internet bandwidth.

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