mcaspi Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Today, users can skip downloading files and users do it especially with small files. They actually have the major part of the torrents but they don't want to download tiny files (that won't harm their computers) compared to the huge torrents. By doing this they report that they are peers causing seeds to constantly try to connect to them for nothing. My suggestion is that uTorrent will auto-download these small files thus reporting that the client is actually a seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexLuther Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 It'll never happen. People disable tiny files (usually images or text files) because they don't want to download them. Why would you force people to download files they don't want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaspi Posted February 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 It'll will happen if the developers decide to implement it. Do you have any idea how many files you have on your computer that you were "forced" to download by other softwares? A huge number and they don't cause any harm. Disks today aren't 10MB in size. Computers are full of files and a few more small files won't harm them. These clients are actually seeds and just because of this users behavior they are seen as peers giving not really accurate numbers to the queuing system and causing unnecessary connection attempts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 And many of the commonly-skipped files get downloaded anyway because of cross-file pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaspi Posted February 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Downloaded but the filles aren't marked as such from what I understand which makes the client a peer. And these cross-file pieces are much larger than the small files. That's also a good reason to go ahead with my suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 They are actually retained. And the larger the piece size of the torrent, the more files that get downloaded anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaspi Posted February 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Good, so why not mark the small files as "downloaded" and the peer as seed which is basically what the client is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.