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A BitTorrent client enables a user to exchange data as a peer in one or more swarms. Because BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer communications protocol that does not need a server , the BitTorrent definition of client differs from the conventional meaning expressed in the client–server model .
Users find a torrent of interest on a torrent index site or by using a search engine built into the client, download it, and open it with a BitTorrent client. The client connects to the tracker(s) or seeds specified in the torrent file, from which it receives a list of seeds and peers currently transferring pieces of the file(s).
Windows, OS X, Unix-like, OS/2: Lightweight. Supports DHT, PEX, announcements via UDP. Does not have a web interface or list of hosted torrents; it is not designed for secure or large-scale application. Vuze [9] Java: Disputed: Yes Windows, Mac OS, Linux: Vuze (formerly Azureus) has a built in tracker. Torrust-Tracker [10] Rust: AGPL-3.0-or ...
BitTorrent DNA (BitTorrent Delivery Network Accelerator) is a program designed to speed up the viewing of streaming video, downloading software (with or without the BitTorrent protocol) and playing online video games. It does so by distributing the end users' downloads between each other.
2024-10-16 GPL-2.0-only: No cost: No Yes macOS Windows Web FlashGet: Windows 3.7.0.1220 [6] 2013-05-17 Proprietary: No cost: No Yes Web Free Download Manager: GNU/Linux 6.19.0.5156 [7] 2023-03-13 Proprietary: No cost [c] No Yes macOS Windows Free Studio: GNU/Linux 6.7.7.1110 [8] 2022-11 Proprietary: No cost: No Yes macOS Windows Freemake Video ...
Reaching an upload/download ratio of 1:1 (meaning that the user has uploaded as much as they downloaded) in a BitTorrent client is considered a minimum in the etiquette of that network. In the terminology of these BitTorrent sites, a leech becomes a seeder (a provider of the file) when they have finished downloading and continue to run the client.
A BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol.. In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested file residing on peer machines are sent to the client, and then reassembled into a full copy of the requested file.
Pieces 0, 1, 8, 9 have availability 1. Pieces 2, 3, 6, 7 have availability 2. Pieces 4 and 5 have availability 3. The entire torrent has availability 1.6 (1 + 6/10). The integer part is 1 because 1 is the lowest piece availability. The fractional part is 6/10 because more than one peer has pieces 2 to 7 (6 pieces) and there are 10 total pieces.