dowloading rate is higher lower than uploading rate in torrent when am downloading a film, why?

Question

when i am downloading am film from torrent(Mtorrent) uploading rate is very much higher than downloading rate.Why it is so?
what is seeds,peers,and share ratio?
What is uploading when downloading is going on?is it from my system?does it slower the downloading rate?
Please answer to all question when u are answer.
if u are a malayali or tamil please give googletalk id....

Answer 1

First of all, you have to understand what a torrent is. A torrent roughly, is when a file is being shared by everyone, little bits at a time, from many different people at a time. A seed is someone who has the entire file and is giving it to everyone, and a peer is someone who is downloading the file or someone who has the file. The share ratio is the ratio of leechers [people who have a partial file] and seeders [entire file].



To answer your question, the reason your uploading rate is much higher is because the film either is A] very popular and has a lot of demand... or B] there are more leechers than seeders. The uploading rate is how many kb you are giving to the people who, just like you want the file, and the download rate is how fast you are getting the file.



This will not slow down your rate, but rather your download rate is slower because so many people are downloading.





hope it helps...

Answer 2

The average uploading speed can never be higher than average downloading speed. it's just impossible.

SEEDERs and PEERs: means those people who have 100% of the file you wanna download.peers means those people who are downloading same file and have part of file, while downloading you are also a peer. When you complete downloading a file you also become a seeder

torrent file is divided into lots of parts and some has some part and some has other parts. so the part of file you have downloaded, now you automatically upload to others peers. And they are also doing the same.

More number of seeds and peers is better. As each seed or peer has a limited internet upload speed, so if there will be less seed and peers this possibility be less that you are getting files fast. More number of seed and peers multiply the speed, so more chance to high download speed.



RATIO: means ratio of file size downloaded and file size uploaded

if you have downloaded 100mb that means all seeds and peers uploaded 100mb to your computer. if you spent 100mb internet in downloading, they also have spend 100mb internet in uploading that file to you.

Its possible that you upload less or more than you downloaded, but it's a fair deal that you at least upload equal or higher than you have downloaded. it means you should make ratio at least 1.000.



you don't download files from any company server but from the personal computers of users like you. it's all about to sharing.

if you are using BitTorrent you can control upload speed but I will say that at any condition keep ratio at least 1.000



for downloading you need at least one seeder i.e. at least one person with 100% file should be uploading it to you.

Many times seeder see your torrent account before allowing you to download their file. so it's better to make a account on any torrent site, download torrent while you are logged in your a/c and keep ratio of at least 1.000

Answer 3

Ok a peer is essentially another person with the file, a seed is someone who uploaded the file, the more seeds the faster it will download, a leecher is someone who doesnt upload it back and uploading is when you put the file back onto the internet, so others can download it.

Answer 4

Your download speed depends on the upload speed of the people you're downloading from (you're not downloading from a website, you're downloading from other users), and the number of other people downloading from them.



Your upload speed depends on your actual upload speed. You'll upload to as many people as your internet connection can handle.



(Your confusion is due to your not knowing how torrents work.)