What’s even worse is when a torrent is stalled at around 94%, there’s exactly one seeder with a full copy in the peer list, but he has fucked up networking rules (or an intentionally choked upload because he’s a dirty leecher) so that despite having an open connection in the peer list, they never send any data…
anything under about 20kb/s is pretty much dead on the larger torrents… a lot of people will turn down their upload limits so that protocol traffic can pass but actual pieces never get sent. It’s irritating to say the least.
i had a similar one, godawful speed (i don’t remember how much, but it was measured in single or double digit kbit/s) and turned on their computer when i went to bed, and off exactly when i came back from work.
ended up leaving the computer on the whole day for a few days. this guy owes me 5 bucks.
If he’s the single seed left on a torrent, chances are he’s the last seed on a bunch of other torrents as well, and his bandwidth is being choked by everyone who wants his stuff.
What’s even worse is when a torrent is stalled at around 94%, there’s exactly one seeder with a full copy in the peer list, but he has fucked up networking rules (or an intentionally choked upload because he’s a dirty leecher) so that despite having an open connection in the peer list, they never send any data…
What do you consider choked? I know a lot of people do not have good upload speeds regardless of what the download speeds are.
Choked, as in turned to 0b/s
Hey, no need to be sarcastic! /s
anything under about 20kb/s is pretty much dead on the larger torrents… a lot of people will turn down their upload limits so that protocol traffic can pass but actual pieces never get sent. It’s irritating to say the least.
OK, i have mine capped to not bog down the network but it’s still way more than that, lol.
i had a similar one, godawful speed (i don’t remember how much, but it was measured in single or double digit kbit/s) and turned on their computer when i went to bed, and off exactly when i came back from work.
ended up leaving the computer on the whole day for a few days. this guy owes me 5 bucks.
If he’s the single seed left on a torrent, chances are he’s the last seed on a bunch of other torrents as well, and his bandwidth is being choked by everyone who wants his stuff.