What are Torrents?

Recently one of my friends asked me "what are torrents?". I was like... So for newbies here is the answer, which I hope will help you to feel better in the world of Bittorent.

"BitTorrent is a file distribution system used for transferring files across a network of people and torrents are specialized files utilized in peer-to-peer (P2P) network environments." Now what is this "Bittorent", "Peer to peer"? I suggest you go through my blog a bit to get in depth knowledge about these terms. Or just bear with me as I try to make you understand these torrent lingo in brief.

Lets take the case how a simple file is downloaded from internet? You click on the link and website’s server starts sending the file to your PC. Simple. But what if server of website is too busy or crashes during file download, and horror of horrors that file is of 400+ MB? You just feel like throwing away your PC!

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Here bittorent technology comes to your rescue. With torrents you can rest assured you will never face any of these problems. Here you don't have single source which is sending you the packets of Data. Instead, torrents contain specific information that multiple computers in the network can read to send various parts of the requested file simultaneously. Torrents keep active track of which parts of the file are needed to complete the request. By downloading bits of the file from dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of sources, large files can download very quickly. At this point go ahead read about seeds and peers.

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Must read Information about Seeds, Peers and leechers. Also How to Increase torrent download speed?
How to download torrents?
What is Mininova?

what is the importance of seeds, peers & leechers in torrents?

The amount of seeds and leechers (peers) has nothing to do with the film quality. They have to do with the speed of the download and generally it is best to have a high seed to peer ratio (more seeds than peers).

This also answers:
What is the importance of seed to peer ratio?
Why should you seed? To help others.
Why am I asked keep seeding and importance?


See also
Torrent, Peer, Seed, Leech, Tracker :BitTorrent Terminology
What are seeds and peers (leechers) in torrents?

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How to Download free movies,songs,softwares,games, etc using torrents on Mininova?

Although this article is not really meant for Mininova fans but its for newbies who really want to download free song,movies,games online using torrents, and need help.

Read more about what are torrents?

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Steps are simple, just follow them :-
1. Download utorrent or bit-torrent.
2. Install them.
3. Go to Mininova and search for your required movie, game, song or software.
4. In the results which show up choose the one which has best seeds ( more the seeds better the download speed).
5. Click on the result you think fits the Step 4.
6. Now on the page which opens click on Download torrent ( usually its size is less than 100 KB).
7. As you have already downloaded the required software ( step 1). You just need to click on downloaded torrent and it will open using the above mentioned software.
8. Now just wait and let your required data to be downloaded. You can see the progress on the screen.

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