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  1. I felt that transmission got a bad rap at the beginning of this thread, because it appeared to engage in sequential downloading. However, if you read the link, it's clear that transmission has rules that keep a swarm healthy (especially fetching the rarest piece first) and it only falls back on sequential downloading if there's just one seed and one leech - because in this case, it doesn't matter in what order the pieces are fetched. The examples given to show why sequential downloading kills swarms all use more than two participants... but in this case transmission does not do that! In fact, because of the rule to fetch the rarest pieces first, in a swarm that contains bad clients (who are sequentially downloading on purpose) transmission will compensate for this bad behaviour by preferring later pieces (because they become rarer).
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