psme Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 For example there are 2 PCs on different networks. Both have the seed content. Both start to seeding. All the peers download from both seeds at the same time. Some time later a peer will get the full content from both the initial seed and becomes a third seed. Once that happen, can the initial 2 seeds be automatically stopped seeding/upload, or stop upload any new content, and keep upload those already uploaded pieces, so that the combined content from the 2 seeds is still the full 100% content, but each seed will NOT upload 100% content by itself? Can uTorrent be config for the setup? The point is to avoid the initial 2 seeds to upload 100% content from either of the seed.I know the easy solution is to make the content in 2 files and each initial upload point has 1 of the files. But I don't want to split the file. Is the setup possible? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Automatic detection of additional seeds isn't possible in a practical environment.There is also no guarantee of consistent demand of pieces across the two seeds to get 100% distribution without 100% upload from each seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 If one or both of the 2 seeds is running in initial seeding mode, you might be able to only upload maybe 10-30% more than 100% the size of the torrent with 2 separate seeds. ...But even with both seeds running regularly, someone SHOULD become a 3rd seed before you have to upload 200% the size of the torrent. Unfortunately, this can be sabotaged if anyone is using sequential downloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 You might consider using webseeding to help with distribution. You upload once to the web server (even while you're seeding) and that web server will serve unavailable pieces on request. There's no chance this web server will hit and run which ensures your one time upload is utilized extremely well. I pushed 300GB in 48 hours via web seeding, while the µTorrent client only pushed out 40GB in the same time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psme Posted July 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thanks for the feedback. Can uTorrent config a seed to ONLY upload (made available) a portion of the full content? Such as I can config one seed to share the first 60% content and another seed to share ONLY the remaing 40%. Or even both can share 99% but the remaining 1% is also available on EITHER of the seeds, but NOT both. So that peers can still get the full content and both (or more) initial seeds will NOT upload 100% the full content. If possible, how to config uTorrent for the setup? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 No, it's not really possible to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psme Posted July 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Sorry for asking that! Is it impossible for uTorrent to do the specific setup? Or it's impossible for bittorrent in general? Because I always see many torrent download with NO seed but the combined peers content is more than enough to get the full content, and the download is full in the end. I think the case is similar to the setup above. Or it's my misunderstanding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 I can't think of a way to do this elegantly through the program. If you have multiple files in a torrent, you just remove some files, do a Force Recheck, then use the Scheduler feature to go into Seed only mode. If the torrent is one big file, you'd have to first make a backup of the torrent content. Then use a hex editor to corrupt file piece you don't want that Initial-Seeder to upload. Force Recheck, will again, make only a portion of the file available. When you're ready to seed 100%, stop the torrent, restore the backup files, Force Recheck and seed the rest. I'm actually thinking of doing something like this on popular public torrents, so leechers have to wait for me to release the 1% before they run away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 ... Initial seeding doesn't report you as a seed, so they won't "know" you're a seed. Needlessly copying data seems overkill. One easier solution may be to use Windows' own "comment" pane available on some filetypes to corrupt your data similarly and revert it. However whether Windows leaves traces in these comment fields when they are reverted to BLANK... sounds unlikely given the penchant for orphaned data (.DOC format anyone?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 You could keep a completed copy, edit the MP3 tag on the file if it's a video with MP3 audio or MP3 file with many media players, and Force Recheck of the file with it stopped.Of course it would show up as <100% then...and share that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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