What is the difference between seeds and peers?

The greater number of seeds will contribute to a faster speed of downloading the file, whereas a more significant number of peers will mean that the speed of downloading will be less. Seeds upload the whole files, while peers only upload the parts of the files they have and download the other parts of the file they don’t have.

What is the difference between seeds & peers in P2P?

Peers are users in a P2P network downloading a file and may also share parts of the file they have already downloaded. Both seeds and peers are integral to the functioning of P2P networks, with seeds ensuring file availability and peers contributing to the distribution of the file. What is Seeds? What is Peers?

How does a peer become a seed?

A peer becomes a seed when he has completed 100% of the file and wishes to continue uploading. A user who wants to upload a file first creates a small torrent descriptor file that they distribute by conventional means (web, email, etc.). They then make the file itself available through a BitTorrent node acting as a seed.