Klaus_1250

I haven't had real issue's, but one things still annoy me. Still tries to connect to my own external IP. (should be in the bugtracker somewhere) But, uTorrent is how all apps should. I know a lot who try to be, but, never as stable. How does Ludde do it???

Same here... If you exchange peers through Peer-exchange, people can bypass the Tracker for peers, making the torrent non-private.

Then there is not problem basically. It is really quite complicated, in general, less connections means less overhead, which relates more efficiency. But it also has side effects which can reduce efficiency in the big picture (for the swarm as a whole). IMHO, there are two areas where some enhancements could be made. When the downstream connection is maxed out and some of the uploading peers cannot send at the rate they are able (e.g. send at less speed their upload slots allow) and when there are some very slow uploading peers (uploading at a rate 100 - 1000 slower as the fastest connected peer). In both situations, I would like to drop the slowest peers since they don't add any value and are more like to costs more than they are worth.

I can understand about wanting to kick people off if you are maxing out your connections but not your bandwidth, but why do you care what they are giving you if your bandwidth itself is maxed out? uTorrent is supposed to drop totally inactive guys if it needs the connection. But I'm relatively new and I already think Ludde doesn't want to implement something that would kick away guys that are merely slow - same reason why we are never likely to have a conveniently placed "Kick and Ban" switch. Kicking and banning is not the way to look at it. Byt the simple fact is, the less connections I need, the more efficient. And I don't need those <1KB/s connections, but some slower users (dial-up or budget broadband) may be happy with it. In the above case, faster peers/seeds will need to create extra uploadslots, because even though they could send me 30 / 50 KB/s, they can't since I'm maxed out and hence send me only 10 - 20 KB/s. So, I'm no talking about kicking and banning people, I'm talking about using the least amount of connections to fill my download. Less connections is more efficient and I think it may also reduce the wasted bandwidth a bit. Because Bittorrent more or less looks like a pyramid (at least in the first stages of a swarms lifetime), any gains in efficiency with perpetuate.

1: I see a few clients with an empty user-agent field? They are often in the state USDID, but looking at the stats I do upload to and download from them (though I always seem to upload more) 2: The speedguide is nice, but may be too limited. The should be an option to fill in the field for up and downspeed yourself. 3: When connecting to a swarm which maxes out bandwidth, I notice that µTorrent doesn't drop sources. If I'm downloading at a full 250 or 500 KB/s (maxed out), then I think really slow sources should be dropppd (< 1KB/s). 4: I see the following UA now and then: [T0390----LhAAchy2r29]