BitTorrent & P2P By: Luz Vega

• A bit torrent is a file that links you to a torrent tracker. You can think of it like a signpost that shows you where your file will be. Many other people can all also download the same file as you at the same time. Each one of them is given different pieces of the file at different times, which they in turn pass onto you. And as part of the torrent, you also pass pieces of this file to other people. So by making everyone in the swarm help with the file, your download rate can be greatly increased.

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• Services on the internet operate in a peer to peer mode. • Bittorent is a file sharing service through which the internet

users can exchange files. • The great thing with bit torrent is that as the number of people

downloading something increases, the faster the download speed becomes for all those involved.

• Bittorent requires the users computer to act as both a client and a server because when requesting files from another user, the computer behaves like a client

• Switches to server mode when it provides a file stored on its hard drive to another computer

Traditional Client-Server Downloading

How Does It Work?

Torrents are broken into three basic parts:  the peer, the seeder and the tracker

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Services on the internet operate in a peer to peer mode.

For example

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• Explained