A few seed / upload questions :)

[wewt]

Howdy all,

Hopefully I won't overcomplicate things:

1. If a torrent includes multiple files and you only download manually selected ones, when finished, you are of course seeding them but technically you're still marked as a peer and not a seed because you're not seeding 100% of it. Does this affect how peers prioritize when connecting to you when they're trying to download those seeded files? In other words would they rather conect to you if you seeded the whole 100%? (Even though the missing files are only a few kb/mb?)

2. Let's say you help seed a file you grabbed somewhere else. The file is exactly the same, you do a hash check to make sure, but it often shows it's 99,9% completed even though you know it's 100%. I'm guessing it's a hash thing for some sort of compatibility with other torrent clients? Anyway, if you don't download that 0,1% and just seed it, you'll again be just a peer in the swarm. Would this also affect how leechers prioritize connecting to you? (Because you're 99,9%?)

I hope the read was not too retarded

Thanks!

[Switeck]

1.Peers connect to you with no knowledge of your percentage complete.

2.The "supposedly identical" files aren't fully identical. Someone's file got corrupted before they re-shared it. LOTS of media players edit the file headers and footers when played using them. Hostile software is no longer just viruses and malware.

[wewt]

Thanks for your reply.

So there's basically no difference if you're a seed or a peer, there's no priority difference and peers connect to you regardless? I always thought there were some sort of flags marking you and then other clients connect to you accordingly, kinda like always try to connect to seeds first and if that fails look for peers etc.

To be honest I was hoping there was some sort of "trick" to it. It's getting harder and harder to keep up good share ratios, too many 100mbit+ boxes around. 20mbit used to be enough

[Switeck]

Seeds do not stay connected to each other, nor would you stay connected to a seed if you makred all the incomplete files as "don't download".

Peers connect to whatever random ip they happen to "see" first...and generally connect to 10+ in <1 minute on busy torrents if they're working correctly.

There's a good chance you don't even have ONE megabit/sec upload. So it is indeed hard to "out-upload" the 100 mbit/sec and faster seed boxes.