Torrent is a small file (around few kilobytes) with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines (mininova.org , btjunkie.org , vertor.com, etc.. ).
Torrent is the most popular way of downloading large files, including movies and games.
Downloading with a torrent is advantageous especially when downloading files, which are momentarily very popular and whitch lots of people are downloading. Because the more people download the file, the higher speed for everyone (see torrent principle).
Source: http://www.what-is-torrent.com/
Definition of Terms
Client
The software that allows you to download and upload (share) files using BitTorrent. The BitTorrent client opens the .torrent file and allows connections from your peers.
uTorrent
The most commonly used torrent client. It is very popular for its simplicity, reliability and also its size – only around 200KB. It has a very nice web site, including extensive forums – if you have any problems. The clear choice for newbies! The “u” at the beginning of the name means micro, they rather use “u” because it’s easier to write and there are no problems with encoding.
Leech
A leech is usually a peer who has a negative effect on the swarm by having a very poor share ratio, however it can also refer to any peer without 100% of the data
Peer
A peer is anyone who is downloading or uploading the file
Seeder
A seeder is a peer that has a complete copy of the torrent and still offers it for upload. The more seeders there are, the better the chances are for completion of the file.
Swarm
Together, all peers (including seeders) sharing a torrent are called a swarm.
Torrent
A torrent can mean either a .torrent metadata file or all files described by it, depending on context. The torrent file contains metadata about all the files it makes downloadable
Tracker
A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm. Clients report information to the tracker periodically and in exchange receive information about other clients to which they can connect
I hope this post is helpful for everyone.
This is really great they don’t have it in Taiwan