What I love about p2p

**anon** · 12-24-2010, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by whatcdfan

this however is the biggest demerit of the p2p as the torrent gets older there are fewer seeds on it, i am downloading a torrent from SCC its been more then 60 hours and ETA 20 hours.lol

You may want to check if the same release if part of a pack on their archive section. If it is, partial download it from there - that'll give you better speeds, as most packs stay well-seeded.

Intr4ns1t, can you elaborate a bit more on that 2.x "multi-peering"? I thought that the possibility of more than one connection from the same IP on the same torrent was controlled by the bt.allow_same_ip advanced setting, which is set to false by default.

**Intr4ns1t** · 12-24-2010, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by anon-sbi

Intr4ns1t, can you elaborate a bit more on that 2.x "multi-peering"? I thought that the possibility of more than one connection from the same IP on the same torrent was controlled by the bt.allow_same_ip advanced setting, which is set to false by default.

Well, the easiest demonstration is to snatch a torrent, and when you connect to a peer, who is using one of the 2.x series utorrents, you can watch what I am talking about. One peer will resolve to an ip address, and that same peer will also connect with an I don't know what you'd call it, but here's a pic of what I'm talking about. Both these peers are the same person leeching:

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Not sure about the terminology, but it makes your peer list look more full than it actually is.

**anon** · 12-24-2010, 06:43 PM

The first peer in your picture looks like someone using IPv6. I've never seen anything like that in my peerlist, probably because I have IPv6 uninstalled in Windows XP and disabled in 7.

**Intr4ns1t** · 12-24-2010, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by anon-sbi

The first peer in your picture looks like someone using IPv6. I've never seen anything like that in my peerlist, probably because I have IPv6 uninstalled in Windows XP and disabled in 7.

Fair enough. I've been wondering about it for ages, but didn't consider it all that bad a thing. Out of curiosity, what specific faults of IPv6 that have you disabling it?

**Expeto** · 12-24-2010, 06:50 PM

Same guy is connected both as IP and as resolved hostname!

utorrent devs, keep up the good work!

**anon** · 12-24-2010, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by Intr4ns1t

Out of curiosity, what specific faults of IPv6 that have you disabling it?

There aren't any faults with IPv6, it's just that my ISP doesn't support it yet, so it'd be pretty senseless to enable it in my computer.

As you may know, there are every time less available IPv4 addresses, which is the reason v6 was created. When my provider gets off its lazy ass and introduces support for it, then I'll happily enable it.

Originally Posted by Expeto

Same guy is connected both as IP and as resolved hostname!

utorrent devs, keep up the good work!

**ca_aok** · 12-24-2010, 11:42 PM

Yeah I was under the impression that when you connect to IPv6 peers it lists their hostname as a separate entry because IPv6 isn't really well supported yet.