stevvi Posted December 23, 2005 Report Posted December 23, 2005 I think this is a general question rather than uTorrent specific... I'm on the end of a torrent and am connected to 12 out of 13 seeds and 6 out of 8 peers. How come I'm not d/loading from 8 of the seeds? It's not like they can be uploading to their full capcity to the other leechers as there just aren't enuff of us about.Enlighten me!
1c3d0g Posted December 23, 2005 Report Posted December 23, 2005 That's how BitTorrent works. :| Why do you want to connect to them all? It only hurts the swarm even more as more unnecessary connections need to be made. :/
stevvi Posted December 23, 2005 Author Report Posted December 23, 2005 [i just edited my post above, if it makes a difference]But the swarm is *so small* that the seeders can't be uploading at anywhere near their full potential to other leechers as there aren't enough leechers in the swarm. I am not using bandwidth to anywhere near my 50 max connections so I obviously want to d/load from those seeders who I am connected to but not d/loading from.Ermm... the beer's got the better of me for now.
1c3d0g Posted December 23, 2005 Report Posted December 23, 2005 But you don't know their upload capacity. Maybe they're all saturated their connection (keep in mind many people run more than 1 torrent at once, so their upload bandwidth is scarce). :|
Firon Posted December 23, 2005 Report Posted December 23, 2005 Sure they can. They may have only 2 or 3 upload slots, and there could be up to 8 peers in that little swarm.
stevvi Posted December 24, 2005 Author Report Posted December 24, 2005 Apologies for wasting your time with my useless drunk math skills.
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