Guspaz Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 This is something that I've always wondered about. I have a torrent downloading now that says:Seeds: 7 of 8 connected (4 in swarm)Peers: 55 of 74 connected (46 in swarm)My confusion comes from the difference between the "7 of 8 connected". That means to me that either there are 8 seeds in the swarm, or my client knows about 8 seeds in the swarm.But if that's the case, how come uTorrent thinks there are only 4 in the swarm? Obviously that's wrong, because I'm *CONNECTED* to more than 4 seeds.Ditto for peers...This is either a bug, or just badly labelled.... or I'm missing something. Can anybody elaborate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 The third link in my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guspaz Posted June 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 So then it's a UI bug; either uTorrent, knowing the tracker is wrong, should display what it thinks is the size of the swarm, or it shouldn't be labelled as the size of the swarm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 Wrong, it's not a UI bug. If you want to blame anyone, blame it on the tracker for being unable to track swarm size reliably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guspaz Posted June 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 Yeah, the tracker shares in the blame, but uTorrent is presenting information that it knows to be wrong... If the same information is going to be displayed, it shouldn't be labelled "in swarm", it should be labelled "tracker estimate", or something similar.Since virtually all trackers seem to report incorrect information here, the info is actually useless anyhow, and very misleading.If not a UI bug, a poor choice of labelling, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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