jpfalet Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Ok...I just want to know something.When I download a torrent, and it has, say, 1000 seeds, well it will only use like 14 or so....This is what it says under the seeds column:14 (1000)Why doesn't it use all 1000 of them?...like this:1000 (1000)Please help.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 1> Because it's VERY impractical to do so.2> Because not all of those seeds have enough connection slots to accept you3> Because you would kill your own connection with protocol overhead and never get any real data transferred if you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpfalet Posted February 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 ok....ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Connection overhead is probably 1 kilobit/second PER peer/seed you're connected to if the torrent's really active. In practicality, having more than 1 peer/seed connection for every 1 KiloBYTE/second you can download is probably excessive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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