Why do more seeds make torrents download faster?

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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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Most home internet connections have much higher download speeds compared to their uploads. If you download a file directly from me it doesn’t matter if you’ve got 100Mb/s download capabilities, if I can only upload at 10Mb/s that’s all you’re going to get. However if 10 people can upload the file to you at 10Mb/s each, you can download at your full 100Mb/s speed.

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