5 days to download???

[juggernaut71]

I am new to uTorrent and I have tried to download 3 files (each about 3-4 gig) so far and they all take close to a week to download. Is this normal? Any help will be great. Thanx in advance.

[ArlyNow]

You need Seeders with some Bandwidth to supply your Download needs.

Also........Downloading to much at the same time can give you poor performance. Use the uTorrent Speed Guide built into the Client.

[juggernaut71]

can you tell me how to find "good seeders"? I have no idea what they are yet . thanx again

[Switeck]

Many torrents are very slow.

Many torrents are reasonably fast.

...It's sometimes hard to determine which is which.

But a clue is once you've connected to 10+ peers, check to see if they're all stuck at the same percentage. Also check the torrent's overall availability. If no peer has more than 90% and the availability is 0.900 ...then that means you're not connected to any seed and even everyone combined that you can see cannot complete the torrent.

There's also fake torrents with lots of fake seeds on them. These are specially designed to NOT complete. You'll typically not connect to any seeds, or if you do they go very slowly. Stop those and delete them. Don't waste your upload bandwidth on fakes.

Poisoned torrents typically have a lot of ips in a narrow range. Most claim to be peers, but sometimes one claims to be a seed. You'll often get 1 hashfail from them even when they only sent you a tiny amount of data. They are actually hostile ips...ban them using µTorrent's ipfilter.dat file!

[Lord Alderaan]

I've downloaded torrents that took weeks... eta alone is no indication of problems.

[juggernaut71]

Thanx Switeck. You are absolutly right. The % column shows how much of the torrent that that peer has and seeders are peers that have 100% of the torrent. Once my download reaches the % of the peers it is pulling from, it stops pulling from that peer because they do not have the remaining file yet. AH-HA. If that makes sense.

Thanks again. Later.

So, does anyone know how I can ignore the peers that have <= % of my download?

[DreadWingKnight]

So, does anyone know how I can ignore the peers that have <= % of my download?

Just because they have less than you, it doesn't necessarily mean they are of no use to you.

Piece distribution systems in bittorrent swarms permit peers to have less than one another and still exchange data.

You'll need to enable the relevance column to know for sure if they have no pieces you need.

[C04VU5]

I have seen 0 seeds with 13 availability. So it had to be everyone had enough pieces to make the puzzle.

Besides, maybe that fellow with <0.01% complete has the piece that you are looking for

[Switeck]

Yes, new peers OFTEN request the rarest part of the torrent -- so all the "older" peers will want to download from it. That way, the "older" peers will be more willing to upload back to the new peer. (BitTorrent's tit-for-tat system at work!)

[stahl_94]

You should open a port in the router.