Technarch Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 I joined a small 150 meg torrent right when it was first offered and I saw that it had no seeds so I thought to myself, this is going to be a while.But it really wasn't.. it was acting as if there was a seed even though I was only connected to 10 of supposedly 15 peers, and 0 of (0) seeds in swarm according to µTorrent.Now this isn't exactly the 'stupid noob' question you are thinking.. The availability was at probably 5% or less when I joined it. But as time went by the availability kept climbing, without a seed till it reached 100% and I just now finished it along with a bunch of people and now there are (7) seeds in the swarm with availability reported as 1.999So how was this magical 'invisible seed' technique done? Doesn't super-seeding still get reported as a visible seed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xu Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-seeding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technarch Posted February 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Ahh clever.. so the seed was there all along.. I have used super-seed before to reseed torrents but didn't realize that I'm not displayed as a 'seed' while this is occuring.I liked Azureus's function where super-seed could be left on all the time, and if you joined a torrent that had seeds or became seeded, it would automatically shut itself off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Doesn't super-seeding still get reported as a visible seed?Nope. Not Azureus' method and not BitTornado's method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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