The following funny words of BT are great. A comprehensive list can be found at Azureus.
Peer: a person who is participating in file sharing. that is, a person who is transferring a file using p2p technology.
p2p: is short for Peer to Peer, which is a technology to do with personal file sharing, which includes the like of BitTorrent, Gnutella, eDonkey, etc. Peer to Peer networks differ from other filesharing networks in that there is no single centralized server.
Seed: a person who is uploading a file or files to others in the swarm. A seed is a peer who has 100% of the torrent, and is uploading to other peers. Seed is also used as a verb, as in "I'm going to be seeding this file overnight", meaning leave it open and available for other users to download. Usually, a person with the whole file is a 'seed', while someone with a partial amount is a 'peer'.
Leech: a person who downloads a file using p2p technology, and who does NOT share with others when in posession of the complete file. Normally in BitTorrent, it is polite and considerate to leave your connection open long after you finish downloading, (to seed) so that other peers in the swarm who do NOT yet have the complete file can benefit from you sharing, as you have benefitted from sharing yourself when you originally downloaded the torrent. Some share more, some share less, but a leech is somebody who closes their connection as soon as they have downloaded the complete file.
Tracker: a tracker is a special server that contains the information needed for peers to connect to other peers. Trackers coordinate the BitTorrent clients, and also keep track of statistics and verification information for each torrent. Azureus contains it's own built-in tracker, but there are a variety of other tracker software packages in use. If the tracker server goes down and you try to start a torrent, you won't be able to connect to the swarm. Usually tracker errors are temporary, so Azureus will keep trying to connect until successful or the torrent is removed.
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Hi Blogger,
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Blogger,
I have been researching p2p file sharing resources and I stumbled upon your blog. Although this post isn't what I was really after, it made a change from the usual run-of-the-mill blogs I normally seem to find. I'm going now to find more information on p2p file sharing. Take care.
Blogger,
I have been researching p2p file sharing resources and I stumbled upon your blog. Although this post isn't what I was really after, it made a change from the usual run-of-the-mill blogs I normally seem to find. I'm going now to find more information on p2p file sharing. Take care.
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