What is seeding?

Question

IS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN SEEDING AND

DOWNLOADING SPEED

Answer 1

Seeding is when a person has a full copy of a certain torrent, the more people that seed the better the download speed.

Answer 2

Seeding happens when you have downloaded a torrent file (or a file through limewire) and then you leave your machine on so the file can be shared with other users. You are now a "seeder".

The more seeders there are, the faster a file can be downloaded by others, because they can access parts of the file from many users at the same time.

Answer 3

Super seeding is a feature of some BitTorrent clients that attempts to minimize the amount of data which must be uploaded by the original seed until the first completion of a downloading peer. The feature was conceived by John Hoffman and first implemented in the BitTornado client in mid 2003. This feature should only be used when there is no more than one seed. It is called Initial Seeding in µTorrent because it is only supposed to be used when there is only one seeder.

Super seeding is a change in the behavior of seeds and may be implemented without violating the BitTorrent protocol.