Re: Re: Grand Designs Torrents

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well if people have the correct ports open the downloads and uploads go a
lot quicker.

But peers can also distribute what they have.

If you get advanced info on the torrent you can see all the peers and seeds
and see who is uploading and downloading and by how much.

Regards,

Ho Yin

At 10:15 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>Mal Lansell wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>12kbytes/s up is about as much as you can get from 128kbits/s...
>
>I was downloading last night as well (ta). I seemed to have ports open
>on 6881, and ports open to 6881 to other people's machines, so
>presumably people were downloading from me as well. Maybe you can only
>"seed" if you have the whole thing? I've no idea, only
downloaded the
>client app yesterday :-)
>
>Jim



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