Benighted Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 What does ''wasted'' mean? That I have downloaded x Mb-s of junk that will be deleted or that some of the files would come through damaged or incomplete? And what does it mean when there seem to be no hash-fails but there is still some amount of data wasted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 wasted data (if its not hashfailed data) is data that your client recieved after he already got one isuue of that particular data piece.My personal experience is that you have more wasted data if there are many BC's in the swarm. Oviously they give a dam about "sent have" and/or "cancel request" messages.Your downloads will NOT come through damaged or incomplete because of that.The BitTorrent protocol is fail safe regarding that problem or malicious attempts to poison your downloads. If the torrent creator created genuine content, that genuine content will come to you if it is seeded long enough, no matter how hard Torrentenemies might try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Waste occurs when 2 peers/seeds uploads the same piece/s of a torrent to you. This is especially common for very large torrents when getting the last 1% -- because you may be connected to many seeds+peers yet only want 1 piece and don't care where you get it from...so you may get it from so many places at once that you end up getting it multiple times over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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