Many a time a question arises in our mind that how do these torrents networks work?
Here's your answer!
Torrents are peer-to peer or p2p networks.
For example say if you want to download a movie(say it"x") and there are about 1000 more people downloading the same movie at the same time then in a server network,the server will be overloaded and people will get lesser speeds but in a p2p network the same file is fragmented or divided into many parts(say 1000 parts) and all the computers downloading the file are inter-connected.
So, what happens is that when you download that movie 1 piece will be going to each of them at first then these 1000 people will share these pieces among themselves and these people give pieces of the same file to you,which will fastly download to your system at your full bandwith speed.
Basically - The file you want to download is broken up into small pieces, each piece is downloaded from multiple sources (seeds) and then reassembled on your computer. You get the download speed from both multiple sources and the fact you are downloading multiple file fragments at the same time.
Hence,you can get files much faster than downloading it from a single server.
The role of a torrent software like bitTorrent here is that it will take all those downloaded pieces and put them together into the file you downloaded.
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