I use uTorrent to download torrent files. What are seeders and leachers?

Question

Also, in the window, i see "up speed" and "down speed". What are these? Why is the up speed showing when i only want to download. What am i uploading? Is it good to have an up speed greater than down speed?

Answer 1

it does not matter......what you dont know cant hurt you.

Answer 2

seeders are people who are done with downloads and are letting u upload from there download. up speed is how fast u are uploading. Down speed is how fast u are downloading. Ur uploading the file that u are downloading. No ur downspeed should be faster. U can make ur upload speed limited to 1kb/s but the more seeders u have the faster ur download will go

Answer 3

A “seed” is someone who has downloaded 100% of the content and is only uploading to peers in the swarm.  Ã¢Â€ÂœPeers” are those who have less than 100% of the content and are downloading from seeds and other peers and uploading to other peers.

Originally (and still in some places), those in the swarm who had less than 100% of the content were referred to as “leeches” and the combined seeds/leeches were referred to as peers.  However, because of the negative connotations of the term “leeches”, those in the swarm with less than 100% of the content are now referred to as peers and “leeches” are those who download the content, but do not upload back at least a full copy of the content.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/node/490

up speed refers to the rate you are uploading at and

down speed refers to your download rate

In bittorrent you are always uploading while downloading as this is how content is ditributed.

Usually down speed should be higher than up as most connections have faster down speed than up.

You should check out this guide on setting uTorrent up for best download speeds as it will help with this:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/...

Answer 4

seeders are the people sharing files or bits of files leaches are the ones not sharing but taking bits of files.

you are not uploading, people are uploading from your shared files.

you download.

have your download and upload the same if you want to be fair

Answer 5

seeders are people sharing a given file

leechers are people downloading a given file

upload and download speed are the rate at which you are uploading or downloading.

when you see your upload speed it means you are seeding, or sharing a file associated with a torrent.  This is how torrents are supposed to work.  It's not necessarily good or bad to have one speed higher...it just depends on what you are sharing and downloading

Answer 6

Seeders are uploading to all the people connected so they can download the file, leechers are only downloading, they aren't uploading to help anyone else, up speed is to seed other people, and down speed is to download from seeders, you should continue to seed after your download finishes for a bit to help out other downloaders, your download speed depends on the seeders, also, torrenting, although you may have small speed, it can take up your whole network, making loading a web page impossible!