inf ratio

[Borisz]

When seeding a created torrent or seeding with 0 bytes downloaded, the ratio will start up from 0.000 instead of being inf.

Happens in 1.1.7 build 293

For a 106 meg torrent that I created, I uploaded 113 megs and my ratio is 1.060.

[MrTufty]

I believe that's a change in the way it's reported now.

So that figure is actually correct, you've uploaded 1.060x your original 106MB torrent.

[sethg]

It's a lot more useful information than inf.

[chaosblade]

6 percent of 106 is 6.36 .. 106+6.36 = a little under 113.

So you infact seeded a whole copy plus 6 percent of another copy, making it 1.06 ratio. It is correct.

[dutchlady]

Hi

i heard that the ratio on trackersite,s ar not working correctly is that treu?

they even ban utorrent for this.

Its a good program using it now but want to now if its treu

[sethg]

I can verify that the upload/download statistics don't work on the public tracker sites that I use. I don't use any private trackers so I don't know if it works properly there.

[Firon]

it's not banned on any private site I go to, and I have no discrepancies between uTorrent's reported stats and what the tracker shows (minus a few MBs lost to system crashes...)

[chaosblade]

Works fine on the only private tracker i use.

[1c3d0g]

Hi

i heard that the ratio on trackersite,s ar not working correctly is that treu?

they even ban utorrent for this.

Its a good program using it now but want to now if its treu

No, it's not true. With earlier versions there were some errors, but since version 1.1.6.1 or so, everything is reported as it should.

Nu is er geen enkel probleem, Madam.

[Borisz]

I know its mathematically correct but on torrents with 0 download, inf should be the default ratio, or at least it is on many clients.

Besides, what should the site ratios display then if they would count it that way? upload: 100 mb, download: 0 mb, ratio: 100.000 ? That would most definetaly be wrong.

[Firon]

edit: thanks double post

[Firon]

They changed it to start at 0.000 ratio, since it's a much more useful display than inf. It's only a visual change, it has nothing to do with what's reported on the tracker. The point of it is for, say, when you seed a torrent and need to know how many times you've uploaded the file (1.5, 6, etc)

And the ratio is based off the torrent size. So 100mb uploaded, 0 downloaded, on a 50mb torrent would display a ratio of 2.000

[Borisz]

As far as I know, the trackers will just say "ratio inf" too.

Either way you might as well want to change the display for it under the General tab too, so both of them display the same thing (it says inf in 1.1.7.2).

[jibba]

If I'm getting this right, µtorrent assumes for completed files that you have already downloaded a file once (even if you created it), so the file size becomes the divisor: ratio := uploaded / filesize, instead of uploaded / downloaded.

upload: 100 mb, download: 0 mb, ratio: 100.000 ? That would most definetaly be wrong.

Definitely. 100 / 0 = infinity, or undefined.

[chaosblade]

When you have not downloaded anything from the torrent, just seeded, the ratio is calculated (read: displayed) as Uploaded / Size instead of Uploaded / Downloaded.

There is nothing diff. in the way its reported to the tracker, just the way its displayed. I think its useful information :]