Idle query using multiple PC's on a single torrent..

[freedomdwarf]

Just musing over breakfast when I was bored....

Has anyone used multiple PC's to download a single torrent and does it work??

I'm downloading a very large single torrent (nearly 200GB!).

At the moment, I'm only using one PC to do that torrent and it's taking forever.

ETA is something between 2 and 3 years or more despite having more than 600 peers and almost 200 seeders. The average (after just 5 days) is only 34.7kBps and most times I see it it's barely trickling at 1-6kBps.

So, I was wondering, could I use several other PC's to help this torrent?

Obviously they can't run completely independantly or I'd just get copies of the same stuff.

I was wondering if the other PC's pointed to the torrent file on the main PC (not a copy of it) via the network and also had the target download into the same file as the main one.... would it work??

I understand that there will be traffic across the router, I don't mind that as the router is a Gigabit router and the PC's are only 100mbit ethernet cards and all runnining thru an 8mBit ADSL router.

So I guess I'm asking if utorrent is able to control the sucessful piece request when spread across many PC's - like you would in a distributed database?

Just to clarify: 1 torrent file, 1 target folder/file; accessed by more than one PC using utorrent simulaneously.

I'm using utorrent 3.4Alpha build 30099. DHT says 792 nodes.

[ciaobaby]

Download speeds are governed by how fast the seeds and peers will send pieces not how quickly your client will accept pieces.

n the main PC (not a copy of it) via the network and also had the target download into the same file as the main one.... would it work??

No.

So I guess I'm asking if utorrent is able to control the sucessful piece request when spread across many PC's - like you would in a distributed database?

No,

[freedomdwarf]

Oh well, it was worth a try