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sonxEr77

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Morning! was downloading a 1.3G video using a torrent and at 47% the download went all the way down to 0KB/s for a long time until i stopped it while upload gain strength (about 28KB/s) ... What could this mean? Normally download grows only after download is finished ...
 
With a torrent you download the file parts from other people just like yourself. At 47% you might have had all the available file parts from all the available users but other users didn't so they downloaded from you. Next time set your upload to 6kbs as that is the minimum needed before they start lowering your donwload speed...
 
Or mayb only the data up until 47% was available on the network.... when u reached that mark and no new data could be found the app started supplying the data u have to others that need it at full speed. Redundant info ftw :)
 
TheRidDlerX said:
Or mayb only the data up until 47% was available on the network.... when u reached that mark and no new data could be found the app started supplying the data u have to others that need it at full speed. Redundant info ftw :)
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what does this mean... I'm stuck with 640MB which i can not use, wasted my cap and now have to share what i can't even watch ... This video has a high rank according to BitTorrent and has been downloaded by many people, how can this be ...grrrrrrrrr:mad:
 
sonxEr77 said:
what does this mean... I'm stuck with 640MB which i can not use, wasted my cap and now have to share what i can't even watch ... This video has a high rank according to BitTorrent and has been downloaded by many people, how can this be ...grrrrrrrrr:mad:
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You will have to wait until the data becomes available or you can add more trackers into the list and hope it is available on one of them...
 
sonxEr77 said:
what does this mean... I'm stuck with 640MB which i can not use, wasted my cap and now have to share what i can't even watch ... This video has a high rank according to BitTorrent and has been downloaded by many people, how can this be ...grrrrrrrrr:mad:
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Ok as far as my knowledge goes P2P work like this...

1)User A shares a file he has on his PC while connected to the network.
2)Other people search and see he has the file and decide to download it. *Note the person can only download this file if the user stays online until at least one other user has 100% completed the download.
3)User B decides to also share the same file he has now downloaded on the network.(Seeder)
4)User C also downloads it but decides not to share it to save bandwidth. (Leecher)
5)Now lets say User A had a power failure while someone was downloading the file from them (at 47%). Usually the program would go and continue the download from User B seeing as User A is offline and User B has a complete copy and is sharing it. But if User B was a leecher and did not share it this would be impossible and your download would stop until the next seeder comes online.
6)With nothing left to do (no seeders online) the app starts uploading the data you have so far to other users also requesting the file(because u are seeding it to them then).

Not that short but hopefully its a bit clearer now. Lesson of the day - when downloading a torrent always look for the one with LOTS of seeders :D:D
 
TheRidDlerX said:
when downloading a torrent always look for the one with LOTS of seeders :D:D
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i guess most of them decided not to share cause it had quite few peers ... I've removed the task from BitTorrent cause was scared to upload the download 600M costing me 1.2G of cap without even having the file i wanted ... Its only beginning of the month can't use all me ONLY 5G cap, eish ...

Thanx Rid.
 
Actually:

1) User A has a file / files on his computer.
2) He creates a .torrent file and uploads it to the net.
3) User B downloads the .torrent file and the torrent program connects to the trackers that is listed in the .torrent file. The torrent program scans the tracker for users with the same file either seeding or leeching.
4) User B now downloads from User A. User B will become a source for every part downloaded.
5) User C downloads the .torrent file and downloads from both User A (seeder) and user B (peer).
6) User A disconnects and user B stops downloading but user C that has less file parts than user B and still downloads from user B until they have the same parts. Once user A connects User B and C will download from him again, if user B has faster download speed than User C then User C might start downloading from user B.
7) Once a download is 100% complete the user becomes a seeder of that torrent.

You can always upload, a seeder is just someone with 100% download and a peer is someone with < 100%

Edit: You could have just stopped the torrent and it would not upload to peers... once you knew the file was available you could have started it again... oh well
 
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Chris_H said:
Edit: You could have just stopped the torrent and it would not upload to peers... once you knew the file was available you could have started it again... oh well
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Oh flip :( ... / *pulls left ear hard until turns red* ... i guess i now need to start from scratch since i've deleted the task? i still have the half vid though, is there no way to re-continue if task was removed?
 
sonxEr77 said:
Oh flip :( ... / *pulls left ear hard until turns red* ... i guess i now need to start from scratch since i've deleted the task? i still have the half vid though, is there no way to re-continue if task was removed?
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To my knowledge as long as the partial of the file still exists you can just readd the torrent file to your application and it should hash what is already there and continue with the rest. Make sure that you point the download to the exact same place you did when you first added it so it can find the file that is already there. If you have deleted the torrent file try and download it again making sure its the same one or at least contains reference to the exact same filename and size.
 
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