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.

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).

Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 12:50 PM on August 21, 2008

The different chunks you download can all be coming from different machines. A BitTorrent client will connect to many other BitTorrent clients and download several chunks at once, in random order. In the long run this makes the protocol fairly efficient, and very nicely scalable - the more BitTorrent clients that are serving up a given file, the faster other clients can download it.
*As you start collecting chunks of the file your BitTorrent client will start making those chunks available for downloading to other BitTorrent clients, and will become a part of the peer-to-peer file distribution network.

The ".torrent" file is simply the bootstrap for this whole process. You download that normally, for example in your web browser, and then it is read by your BitTorrent client. It has the information that the BitTorrent client then uses to begin to locate other BitTorrent clients that are serving up the file you're interested in.

Answered by Nidhi Singh , an ibibo Master, at 12:42 AM on August 21, 2008

Torrents, typically ending in ".torrent", are control files for the peer-to-peer file sharing technology called BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is a distributed file distribution technology. Yes, "distributed distribution". When you download a file using BitTorrent, the file is actually broken up into chunks, that you BitTorrent client program then downloads and reassembled into the final file as the pieces arrive. To over-simplify, what makes it interesting are two things:

*The different chunks you download can all be coming from different machines. A BitTorrent client will connect to many other BitTorrent clients and download several chunks at once, in random order. In the long run this makes the protocol fairly efficient, and very nicely scalable - the more BitTorrent clients that are serving up a given file, the faster other clients can download it.
*As you start collecting chunks of the file your BitTorrent client will start making those chunks available for downloading to other BitTorrent clients, and will become a part of the peer-to-peer file distribution network.

The ".torrent" file is simply the bootstrap for this whole process. You download that normally, for example in your web browser, and then it is read by your BitTorrent client. It has the information that the BitTorrent client then uses to begin to locate other BitTorrent clients that are serving up the file you're interested in.

Answered by Shobhit , an ibibo Master, at 12:53 PM on August 18, 2008

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.

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).

torrent is a file
with torrents you can download almost everything on the net
every file (or set of files) need to have an unique torrent file to download it
to download anything through a torrent you need a torrent client.

Answered by Reeta K , an ibibo Master, at 5:05 PM on August 05, 2008

torrent is a sofware used for downloading............(e books, songs movies and whatever u want)
thanks

Answered by Aryan Gusain , an ibibo Specialist, at 9:08 AM on August 05, 2008

Torrents, typically ending in ".torrent", are control files for the peer-to-peer file sharing technology called BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is a distributed file distribution technology. Yes, "distributed distribution". When you download a file using BitTorrent, the file is actually broken up into chunks, that you BitTorrent client program then downloads and reassembled into the final file as the pieces arrive. To over-simplify, what makes it interesting are two things:

*

The different chunks you download can all be coming from different machines. A BitTorrent client will connect to many other BitTorrent clients and download several chunks at once, in random order. In the long run this makes the protocol fairly efficient, and very nicely scalable - the more BitTorrent clients that are serving up a given file, the faster other clients can download it.
*

As you start collecting chunks of the file your BitTorrent client will start making those chunks available for downloading to other BitTorrent clients, and will become a part of the peer-to-peer file distribution network.

The ".torrent" file is simply the bootstrap for this whole process. You download that normally, for example in your web browser, and then it is read by your BitTorrent client. It has the information that the BitTorrent client then uses to begin to locate other BitTorrent clients that are serving up the file you're interested in.

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 7:52 PM on August 04, 2008

Well , BitTorrent / torrent is the global standard for accessing rich media over the Internet.

BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.

For more details , Please visit the source site :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B itTorrent_%28protocol%29

Answered by Alok Gupta , an ibibo Guru, at 4:15 PM on August 04, 2008

torrent is site where you can download free music,movies,books and there are various site piratebay,mininova,torrentz

Answered by ani , an ibibo Advisor, at 2:17 PM on August 04, 2008

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.

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).

torrent is a file
with torrents you can download almost everything on the net
every file (or set of files) need to have an unique torrent file to download it
to download anything through a torrent you need a torrent client.

Answered by msg4hk , an ibibo Master, at 1:09 PM on August 04, 2008

well Anirban Ain,a file used by a peer to peer program to direct it to a file that is shared across many other computers so that it can download the file.

joe, mike and sue all have 'file.mpg' on their pc. you want it. you download the torrent file, your torrent client works out through a central tracker that the file resides with these three people, and it downloads bits of it from each of their computers.

to get a torrent client, try
http://www.frostwire.com
its free and easy to use.

to find torrents, use http://www.torrent-finder.com. check the comments before you download.

Answered by Debashis , an ibibo Master, at 8:25 AM on August 04, 2008