Submitted ByTUSHAR M. KASALEGuided ByProf. S. J. ALASPURKAR

IndexWhat is Bit Torrent?Peer-to-Peer file sharingWhat Bit Torrent does?How Bit Torrent works?Installing & Configuring Bit TorrentFinding & Downloading .torrent filesConclusion

What is Bit TorrentIntroduction :-Bit Torrent, an American corporation that develops Internet content distribution technology based on the Bit Torrent protocol

Traditional Client-Server Downloading

Peer-to-peer File Sharing

Gnutella's peer-to-peer download process

What Bit Torrent Does?

Leeches - People who download files but do not share files on their own computer with others Seed/Seeder - A computer with a complete copy of a Bit Torrent file Swarm - A group of computers simultaneously sending or receiving the same file .torrent - A pointer file that directs your computer to the file you want to download Tracker - A server that manages the Bit Torrent file transfer process

How Bit Torrent works?Bit Torrent's peer-to-peer download process

Installing & Configuring Bit TorrentDownload and install the Bit Torrent client software. Check and configure firewall and/or router for Bit Torrent. Find files to download. Download and open the .torrent pointer file. Let Bit Torrent give and receive pieces of the file. Stay connected after the download completes to share your .torrent files with other

Installing & Configuring Bit TorrentDownloading Client Software It is open source s\ w

Check & Configure Firewall

Finding and Downloading .torrent Files

Disadvantages :-

At least one computer must be connected to internet & running file sharing s/w.

Leeches, limits the number of computers that software can search for the requested file.

It can D/L .torrent links only.

Advantages :-By downloading multiple pieces at the same time, the overall speed is greatly improved.

The more computers involved in the Swarm, the faster the file transfer occurs.

Conclusion :- One of the big advantages of Bit Torrent is the high level of integrity of both the content and the meta-data due to the working of its global components. The Bit Torrent program itself both legal and innovative. So Bit Torrent is especially useful downloading for large, popular files using available internet bandwidth.