Glossary of BitTorrent terms

This is a glossary of jargon related to peer-to-peer file sharing via the .

Bittorent may sometimes display a swarm number that has no relation to the number of seeds and peers you are connected to or who are available. E.g. it may show 5 out of 10 connected peers, 20 out of 100 connected seeds, and a swarm of 3.

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