revnice Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 How can Availability be high (60 or 70) when Seeds/Peers is 0.500 (for example) surely if Availability is that high there must be at least 1 person seeding? Here are real examples: Seeds/Peers ---------------------------- Avail0.535................................................670.420................................................70 Can anyone explain that for me? Thanks - rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 Availability is calculated as follows: 1.0 x every seed on the torrent 1.0 x every complete set of pieces among peers. The seed/peer column is a ratio of seeds to peers, and yours have on average 2 peers per every seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Down Under Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Keep in mind that two different peers may have different parts of the torrent. Availability is based upon all the parts that are available, regardless of which peer has them. That means it's possible to have 100% availability without having any one peer with 100% (e.g. a seed). That's the beauty of torrent file sharing, as opposed to having a centralized source. I have accumulated multiple torrents up to a 100% when there was never more than 10-20% available. Of course, this took a long time and resulted in a lot of uploading on my part. It was worth it though, as otherwise those torrents would have died. Brandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Hello.I have a similar question:I have a torrent with 0 (0) seeds and (2) 6 peers.The availability shows as 1.622 right now and keeps increasing.That means I will finish my download? But I was wondering.One of the peers I'm connected to has 99.1% of the torrent.How come he hasn't completed it since the availability is over 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 It should mean you CAN finish your download. That one last peer might have network conditions preventing completion on their part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 It should mean you CAN finish your download.That one last peer might have network conditions preventing completion on their part.Thanks for your reply.Well, i'm connected now with 3 peers, but all 3 seem to be stuck and it seems really weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Down Under Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 Before dying off altogether, a torrent will sometimes devolve to a collection of peers with no data between them. What they have is the metadata, but no actual data. You start the torrent which then begins downloading metadata. You can tell when that completes, as that's when the torrent size becomes visible. Also the file list tab is populated, as the metadata contains the names of all the files in the torrent. If the torrent is stuck at Downloading 0% or Searching for Peers, you probably have a dead torrent. The difference between this situation, and any other dead torrent, is that the trackers will show the existence of peers - now including you. The next interested leach will start the torrent and get metadata from you, but no data because you don't have any either. Brandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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