How do torrents work?
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Say you want a grand feast: burgers, pizza, and sandwiches for dinner. You want all this, but you don’t want to make it yourself or even go get it. Well, there are places that already have this stuff and will deliver it to you.
So you go to takeaway.com. You tell takeaway that you want your feast. Takeaway directs your request to Pizza Hut, McDonalds, and Subway, who all have parts of your feast.
When each place delivers their part of the order to you, your feast is complete.
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Torrents are much the same. Takeaway represents the tracker, which keeps track of hosts that have and are sharing what files. Your torrent file or magnet link direct your request to the tracker which helps redirect your request to the different hosts that are sharing it. Your computer and these hosts determine which host sends which parts of the file to you. When you have all the parts, the file is reassembled and your download is complete.
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