My max upload is about 25KB, i usually set it to about 20KB, and i usually get great download speeds as long as there is a few seeds.Originally posted by stoi@31 October 2003 - 04:31
I would love to know where ppl get this idea from, that bittorrent is unleachable.(although, technically, you can't leech with BT)
downloading a film of suprnova earlier today, it had 1 seeder and 4 leechers when i started, and was 700meg in size.
I have just downloaded azureaus (the java client) so i thought i would see what all the fuss is about with it.
ok i started the torrent and set the upload to 20KBs (to do my bit) the max download i seen in 1 hour was 10KBs. I just thought this was normal as not many seeders/leechers, but i thought i would give something a go.
i went into the options and set the upload BW to 3KBs (globaly, always a bad sign for a client imo) went back to the download and guess what, downloading at 100KBs+ for all the rest of the file. My share ratio was abysmal after i had finished the file, but as i run my own tracker i know what leechers are doing to bittorrent, so i put it back up to 20KBs for the next 10 hours and had a share ratio of 0.500 and will reseed if the torrent needs it.
so all these ppl that say that you cant leech off bittorrent are talking rubbish, i get better download speeds when i do leech, but i always make it up to at least 0.500 share ratio in the end.
stoi
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