Re: Re: Grand Designs Torrents

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I installed ABC and downloaded episode 8 last night (thanks, Doogie).  One
thing puzzles me though - it listed 24 peers but only one seed.  Does this
mean that those 24 weren't sharing uploads, or do these numbers mean
something else?

I have a 600/128 broadband connection but was only getting ~12k download.
It was uploading at around the same rate, despite not being capped.

Any idea?

Mal



----- Original Message -----
From: "Doogie Brodie" <ukhad@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Grand Designs Torrents


> Ho Yin Ng wrote:
>
> > Why do they have to wait?
> >
> > Surely the more people downloading means you can get your
completed
episode
> > quicker .. as they act as peers and you can download chunks off
them.
> >
> > As long as they are not leeching that is fine.
>
> Yep, what he said. :)
>
> A torrent splits the file up into 256KB blocks (so there's around 1900
> in this release) and these get downloaded and shared between everyone
> randomly, then everyone gets bits they don't have from people who have
> bits they do have and vice versa. :)
>
> Cheers
> --
> Doogie
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