who are leechers and seeders in bittorrent

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torrents work by splitting files into many pieces. when you download a file you download different pieces from different people. This allows you to max your download speed while requiring little bandwidth from the source. A seeder is someone he has downloaded the entire file and is sharing it. A leecher is someone who is downloading the file but has yet to complete it.

If a you are downloading a file and it has no seeders then there is a good chance you'll never be able to complete the download.
 
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Muneeb Ahsan

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k get it, but i still confused about leechers some says, leechers are those who completed their download and right after stop seeding, some says leechers are those who are downloading the file and at the same time uploading. what the reality and also please talk about peers and what are trackers, thanks in advance for your quick reply psykhiqZero...
 
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you are somewhat correct. peers are those users which do not have complete copy of the torrent they are downloading. at the same time they can be uploading the torrent data which they have, to other peers. leechers are considered to be the peers which do not upload at all (even after completing download).

trackers are servers which keep track of which users (seeds or peers) are currently connected to a particular torrent. this helps the users to connect with each other to exchange torrent data.

hope this helps.

 
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In torrent definitions, a leecher is someone who is both uploading and downloading. In internet speak, a leecher is someone who gives nothing back, in this case someone that disconnects from a torrent as soon as they finish downloading. Technically, they are both correct, but normally it depends on the context it's used in.
 
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Muneeb Ahsan

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mean to say, leechers are those who are downloading the torrent but haven't the complete copy of it, they are downloading and at the seam time they are uploading it. But right after completion of downloading the stop seeding it. am i right?
 
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leechers are those who are downloading the torrent but haven't the complete copy of it, they are downloading BUT they are NOT uploading whatever they have.
 
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its not possible a person should have to upload as long as the download a torrent. and tell me please if the person complete the downloading and then don't seed it, it will be consider as leecher or something else?
 
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A person who downloads the whole file and then disconnects is informally called a Leecher among the torrenting community, because they arent contributing. Formally and in proper terminology, a Leecher is someone who is still downloading the file but is uploading what they do have.
Which one applies depends on the context of its use.
 
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are those people who have complete copy of data and after that stop seeding are considered as leechers, are they just consider or actually added in the mentioned number of leechers in torrent or not?
 
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you are getting hang of it :)

if someone's share ratio is more than or equal to 1 then they might not be called as leechers, because they have uploaded as much as they have downloaded.
 
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If they disconnect after downloading a complete copy, they are not included in the leecher's list as the tracker no longer keeps their information. Again, CONTEXT is everything.
 
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