kssxs Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 uTorrent v2.2.1 Build 25130The ETA on the torrent is incorrect. I've got 2 torrents downloading, both 1.09Gb in size. The one downloading faster is showing a longer ETA than the one downloading at a slower speed.Just thought I'd point that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 ETAs are based on a lot of factors, including availability, a rolling average of download speed, the rate at which new pieces are appearing/availability is increasing, and a multitude of other factors you're not considering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kssxs Posted April 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 I'm only stating behaviour not previously observed. It has always seemed to be relatively accurate before. The numbers seem to be off now. If there is a valid reason for it, great, otherwise, I wasn't aware that the calculation for ETA had drastically changed to account for the reported discrepancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 It didn't change. Swarm conditions just generated the discrepancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Validator Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 There is however a clear bug in ETA calculation when there is nothing left to download. I have a torrent for example which has no seeds, it's 97% here, but 4 fragments are red and don't exist among the peer group who are all waiting patiently in case a seed turns up again some time I guess for those last 4 fragments.The ETA is never as far as I'm concerned or more accurately simply indeterminable, it's based on the pure chance a seed may turn up. Yet it consuistsently suggests an of a week or two anyhow ... that's a sort of silly thing to suggest and clouds columns sorted on ETA with some meaningless number that should just bbe an n/a or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killswitch89 Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 I noticed that too that's why I deleted Utorrent and kept frost. Actually a tested using the same torrent on Frostwire and Utorrent and they downloaded it approximately at the same speed ( around 180 kb/s) But the problem was that Frost showed an eta of 9 hours while Utorrent Had an ETA of 3d!! what the... That's gotta be Wrong but I kept reading about Utorrent and how it was the most popular among These clients So I decided to ask about it here. ( I might add that I had a better share ratio on Utorrent than on frost)I would be grateful for your responses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 ETAs are based on a lot of factors, including availability, a rolling average of download speed, the rate at which new pieces are appearing/availability is increasing, and a multitude of other factors you're not considering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Frostwire's ETA was more likely to be incorrect. µTorrent estimates the ETA intelligently based on availability of pieces, so if there's a lot of rare pieces, it will adjust your ETA accordingly, since those won't download as quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killswitch89 Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 Frostwire's ETA was more likely to be incorrect. µTorrent estimates the ETA intelligently based on availability of pieces, so if there's a lot of rare pieces, it will adjust your ETA accordingly, since those won't download as quickly.Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killswitch89 Posted August 19, 2011 Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Actually it's not that. If Utorrents ETA was so accurate why would it be changing this much. the thing changes 2000 times per minute and it goes sometimes from 2h to 2 days from one second to another just like that. I think you are mistaken. Its just plain slower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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