Armbarsalot Posted June 25, 2007 Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 I am serving a 4 gig torrent, I just noticed how if I go to the torrents properties I can choose "initial seeding" but I didnt see that option when creating the torrent (my first one ever btw..), so I set it to initial seeding and it dropped all my peers, I had to untick the box so that everyone could connect again. Should I set it to initial seeding or should I just continue to leave it this way? I would like more seeders and spreading my upload over ALL the peers seems very slow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurahashi Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 Depending how big upload you have, but with such big torrent I'd go with initial seeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armbarsalot Posted June 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 what is the difference though? with initial seeding selected would it only up to ONE peer until they have fully downloaded it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 Initial seeding will attempt to share each piece only once. It might upload more slowly than regular seeding, but its real utility comes in the form of saved initial seeding bandwidth. While you can easily spend 150% of the data size's worth of bandwidth using regular seeding to get 1.0 full copy of the data out to the swarm, initial seeding can often take that bandwidth usage down to 105% to get 1.0 full copy out to the swarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armbarsalot Posted June 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 dang, so is it really to late to change over to initial? because I already have about 20 peers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 No, as long as you're the only seeder in the swarm, it's okay to switch to initial seeding whenever you wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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