Simon Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 I uploaded it to the tracker, I've seeded about half of it so far... but should I be super seeding or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 When you're the only seed and have low upload speed, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Does it make a difference if you switch it on in the middle of a torrent upload? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Read the wikipedia article on super-seeding.I personally see no need to use it ever. It can't boost your upload speed, it just means you can drop off the torrent faster, but I don't see why that's a big appeal for so many. If you drop off then the torrent will slow down again without you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 I used it for seeding a 1GB torrent with a decent sized swarm (80 peers), and it worked quite well. Took a LOT less bandwidth to reach availability of 2 and have lots of seeders in the swarm. When the first seeder was made... about 12 seeders came at once. It was quite nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njeske Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 it's nice because it helps get the file distributed faster so that there are more seeders. it's not just so that you can drop off the torrent faster. although i'm sure that's how some people use it. i use it so that i can get as many seeders setup as quickly as possible so that downloads can go faster for everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 I just think that it's way overused and causes more harm than good.I understand where it's useful, but I really think that it's too 'appealing' (WOW! "super" seeding!) and that means a lot of people use it when they shouldn't.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Yep, lots of stupid users using it.But for the ones who actually know what it's for, it's great for creating an availability of >2 much much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhn195 Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Do you super-seed until there's 1 available copy among peers OR another 1 proper seeder has emerged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 You can super seed until at least 1 proper seeder has emerged. Once that happens, it should be turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moody Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 @Firon: Agree 100%, I suggest that super seeding should turnoff automatically once the 1st seed has emerged from the peers. Apart from inexperienced users trying it at the wrong times, original uploaders are not always around to switch it off at the right time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Hmm. This brings up a slight problem.. whenever I'm the first and only seed, Seeds seems to show up as '0 (0)', not '0 (1)' as you would expect.Is this always what happens - ie. µT doesn't count you as a peer, IIRC Azureus did - or a random glitchy thing relating to tracker scrapes?Because if it is always what happens, ignore me, that feature Moody suggested would be a good idea and sounds easy to implement.The only thing I would suggest is that (a) it's on by default, but you can disable it in advanced options and ( that it's somehow obvious in the UI that µT super-seeded to a point, then there were alternative seeds so it resumed regular seeding. I can't think of a good way to do this right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhn195 Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 You can super seed until at least 1 proper seeder has emerged. Once that happens, it should be turned off.Then do you need to increase your upload slots for better efficiency or just leave it at the default figure of 4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 I increased mine to 6 when super-seeding, but YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.