I understand the basic concept that torrenting means transferring files to and from host computers (seeds) and recipient computers (peers) in small chunks. What I don’t understand is what would make this process faster between many seed computers as opposed to just one computer transferring it’s complete file to another computer.
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Each single seeder is limited by their own upload speed. Typically, your internet service provider limits both upload and download speeds with upload speeds being significantly less than download speeds.
So, for example, your download speed potential is 5Gbps, however you have ONE seeder who is limited to 1.5Gbps upload. You therefore, are limited to downloading only 1.5Gbps because that is all the uploader can do.
Now, if there are 5 seeders at 1.5Gbps each, that’s a total of 7.5Gbps uploading potential. So you can then download at your 5Gbps max speed allowed by your ISP restrictions.
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