Why is it seemingly faster to torrent?
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Torrent is peer-to-peer file sharing, while regular downloads are server-client. For a regular download, you’re asking a server to send you the entire file. This can take a lot of time because the server, its network, your network, and your computer can only process so much data at a time. The slowest part is usually the networks, since they have to send the data across however many intermediates to reach you.
For torrents, you’re asking for pieces of the file from anyone else who happens to have it. So instead of getting the file from one server, each of your peers who is “seeding” the file acts as a mini-server for parts of the file. Instead of clogging up the one pathway from a single server to your computer with your download, you can use multiple pathways, one for each peer. That makes it a lot easier to get the data, because you can download multiple parts at the same time and combine them on your computer as they finish.
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