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YOU download the file to your bit-torrent client at a speed of 20kbs. While it is downloading you are 'Leeching.' It takes only a minute or two and once it has downloaded you have the whole file. What do you do now?

Nothing, not if you haven't blocked/limited uploads within your client properties.

The file will stay where where it is and simply be 'available' for others to connect to, it is therefore a 'SEED.' In the most serious sense of the word, it is only actually a seed once you've uploaded the full file at least once. But we'll ignore that for now.

Your upload speed on this file is 20kbs, that means a third person who downloads the file can obtain, in theory, 40kbs download speed. So with your seed added the download speed available on the torrent file has doubled! As more and more people download and seed the file, the speeds can reach extremely fast pace.

Of course, speeds will vary, depending on how many seeds available, how many leechers, how many peers are connected and a bunch of other variables, but that is the condensed theory.

Leeching is, as mentioned above, the process of connecting to the download and obtaining the file. It is called leeching because you have not as yet created a seed. You may read various posts relating to the word' leechers' as some form of demonic presence, but in truth we are all leechers at some stage in torrent share. What gives Leeching a bad name is the fact that many people do not return the favor once they download. In short they 'leech' the file from others and fail to upload the whole file in return. Some people even restrict their bandwidth to minimal or even NO upload speed, and of course this affects speeds and availability of the file.

However, you need to understand, especially when using our example, that leeching is as important in the initial stages of sharing a file as Seeding will later become. Without leechers there can be no seeds. So on a newly added torrent, you may often see many leechers compared to the number of SEEDS.

For your own guidance, you should check the properties and options of your particular bit-torrent client. If you want to help the torrent world by seeding more advantageously, do not restrict your upload speeds and/or bandwidth. However, you may need to manipulate these properties on a individual file bases if you have limited bandwidth.