I've been downloading quite a lot of torrent files. On many sites next to the file name it gives values for seeds,peers and helath. Does anybody know what these stand for?

Thanks in advance

Be careful with torrents, you can get busted for it!

I haven't used torrents for a while.... here's what I remember. I think seeds are the Torrent users with the complete files and peers are active 'sharers' of said files. When you start downloading and sharing you become a peer. Once the file has downloaded and you leave the program running for other people to share you become a seed.

Depending on what Torrent client you use Health may either be the state of your connection, or your Share Rating. The share rating usually determines how quickly you may dowload files. The more people download off you, the faster you download off others

On the torrent sites, the more seeds there are the more likely you are to complete the download, more peers = faster downloads.

Cheers Dace

I use Imesh quite a lot as well. Although sometimes the quality isn't too good and very often the tunes are wrongly titled. But hey, it's free so I'm not gonna kick up about it am I?

ponly download from offical sites like bittorren no-one else for they contain trojan and viruses

My experience with torrents is not so bad but i am looking for some thing better than torrents.

OMG! i have always had problem with torrents.. all kind of viruses you may imagine are on my laptop because of torrents

Oh god really? I've never had a problem with torrents so far, touch wood.

think it all depends where you get them rather than the torrent file type being the problem.
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