In p2p file sharing, a software client on is an user-end PC that requests a file, and portions of the requested file thats on a peers machine that are sent to the client, and then reassembled into a full file of the requested file. The “tracker” server keeps track of where data  copies and resides on peer machines, which ones are available at time of the client request, and helps coordinate efficient transmission and reassembly of the copied file. Clients that have already started downloading a file that communicate with the tracker periodically to negotiate faster file transfer with new peers, and also provides network performance statistics; however, after the initial p2p file download is started, p2p communication can be continued without the connection to a tracker.

Since the creation of the distributed hash table ,the method for “trackerless” torrents, trackers have largely become redundant. However, they are still often included with torrents to improve the speed of peer discovery.

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TYPES OF TRACKERS

There are mainly to types of tracker they are public tracker and private trackers

Public trackers

Public or open trackers can be accessed by anyone by simply by adding the tracker address to an existing torrent, or they can be used by any newly created torrent, like utorrent etc.

Private trackers

A private tracker is a torrent tracker that restricts it uses by requiring users to register with the site. The method for controlling registration used among many private trackers is an invitation only system, in which active and contribution of members are given the ability to grant a new user permission to register at the site, or a new user goes through a selection process to join the tracker.

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P2p stands for peer-to-peer network, a group of computers linked together equally for processing data. Unlike traditional client-server networking, no devices in a P2P network are designated solely to serve or to receive data. Each connected machine has the same rights as its “peers”, and can be used for the same purposes.

If you want to know about the in depth workings of the p2p network checkout the wikipedia article about it

What are the Benefits of Using a P2P Network?

P2P networking has a number of benefits. As an example, in a normal  client-server network model, if a single server goes down or crashes, it normally takes the whole network along . But in a P2P network , if a single peer goes down, then the others on the network need to do its job without any trouble and reallocate the network . They also help make sure that the  network traffic doesn’t get bottlenecked at one device, since traffic is distributed across many computers. Since there are not centralized servers then the downloading can be done with little privacy

It has some inherent security risks like malware from downloaded files or an cyber router attack but every network have there own issues and so do the p2p network.

How to Join A P2P Network?

Joining a p2p network is very easy then you think torrent is a very best example of p2p network because a file is downloaded from peers connected to the network

Conclusion: The Good and the Bad of Peer-to-Peer Networks

Peer to peer network is an amazing network invented by the american programmer Bram Cohen  for sharing of digital medium in a decentralized way it also have many other purpose .but in recent years the p2p have a bad rep because of it dominant use in pirating media as well as software .because of its advantage then normal client server network taking down a file from p2p network is very hard. The way the users use it should be important because the p2p network has greater potential .

In feature we will publish the best sites for downloading files using a p2p client.

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