dangercat Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Im a torrent newbie and was just wondering about a few thingsFirst of all, this torrent im downloading at the minute has the following:Seeds: 2 of 6 connected (220 in swarm)Wasted: 195mb 117 hashfailsOk, there's only 2 of 6 people currently seeding, is this correct? But what's the swarm part about?The wasted part, should I be worried that this is happening?And also when I check the logger part of the program when a torrent is downloading, Im getting all these banned IP's and also Piece "Insert Number" Failed Hash CheckIs there such a thing as a bad torrent? Does this sound like one?Would greatly appreciate it if an advanced torrenter could help me out, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 The number in the parentheses is what the tracker is reporting, which is often inaccurate. 6 is the number µTorrent has confirmed are connected.As for the wasted, that's a bit much. Yes, there are poisoned torrents, and this might very well be one, but it can also lie with your hardware. What router are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangercat Posted July 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 It's one that came with my ISP, the NTL 250 cable modem, though other torrents have been sound, so this just must be a dodgey oneI think I'll just skip this torrent Cheers for the quick reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 i it's a TV/Movie torrent it most probably is a poisoned torrent, try one of the OpenOffice torrents and see if it happens the same way, if not u can be sure u are getting a poisoned torrent and most probably never gonna end it so u better get a new torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 If there's enough people on even a poisoned torrent with real seeders then if you ban/block the tyical poisoners (especially the 38.x.x.x ip range and a few others...), you'll likely still finish the torrent -- it just may take a long time and you'll see numerous ip bans for hash failure along the way.It might be worthwhile to close µTorrent and restart it once a day or more just to clear the temporary bans on ips for hash fails, simply because multiple ips often get banned for 1 failed hash...even though only 1 may have set bad data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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