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What does "Seeding to 3 of 4 connected peers 7kB/s ▲" mean?

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This is Transmission BitTorrent Client:

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What does the "Seeding to 3 of 4 connected peers 7kB/s ▲"?

What is seeding and what are peers? And why does this only appear after it has downloaded? Before it says "Downloading from 60 of 60 peers - 785 kB/s ▼"

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answered 2 Years ago oneeme · Accepted Answer

Some torrent terminology:

Peer: A user who is participating in the torrent.

Seeder: A peer who keeps the torrent available for uploading. They can be the people who initially uploaded the torrent or those who have finished downloading it and kept it alive.

Seeding: To keep a torrent alive for uploading once you have finished downloading (either the bits you want or the complete torrent).

Usually, peer just means a peer who isn't a seeder.
In this case, you are seeding. You have a target Upload/Download ratio of 2.0 on both torrents. Once you have uploaded twice as much as you downloaded for the torrent, the application will cease seeding that torrent.