As for the so called experts!

I think i’d rather listen to the guy that invented the protocol than some idiot that has not invented anything and would like to amaze us with his knowledge of nothing apart from being able to download 8-)

In the spirit of “Sharing is caring”, let me describe a method that really works:
Step 1 – move to Scandinavia.
Step 2 – Download only from “SweSub” torrents.
Note that Scandinavian people don’t actually need the subtitles, but they use them extremely efficiently for filtering away people from other regions of the world, and so you can watch your average DL speed jump from 30 to 900 KB/s just by this simple trick.

Of course, it could take a bit of an initial investment.

http://www.plentyoftorrents.com

Also as djnforce9 touches in his comment, basicly the only thing you can determine is the seeder/lecheer ratio.

ten four!

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25660

it has a ratio option, because I suggested it !!!!!!!

You need to take into consideration that while a peer is eager to download, not all of them provide that one 10th of upload bandwidth they have.

For example, out of a 10000 peers, only 1 or 2 thousand will seed, which means they don’t mind uploading, while the rest of 8 thousand will be hit’n'runners and most certainly they will cap upload speeds, thereby limiting overall swarm speed.

Looking at Weeds’ latest ep, 11337 lolz finished and only 3600 seeding…

I try to find torrents with more seeders than leechers or at least a balanced 1:1 s/p ratio

They’re just like some dork sitting in his bedroom with tons of files, only they have a HUGE pipe to the web and you get your stuff FAST!

i vote
not so cool story

Private trackers suck :(

http://www.keyforum.net/index.php?act=news&ln=eng

http ://bamboo-dht.org/tutorial.html
http ://www.cdt.luth.se/~peppar/progs/mTunnel/
http ://www.rebolfrance.info/org/articles/multicast/multicast.html

this *would* be true, if all the people listed as leechers were people who were actively still downloading (and therefore taking up a lot of the seeders’ bandwidth themselves), but a lot of the time they are just partial seeders (people who have just chose to download part of the files). as you haven’t done ANY research to determine how many, on average, peers listed as leechers are actively downloading or just partial seeders, you article is baseless rubbish.

In my experience, it’s just the opposite. Even though one has a higher ratio, having more seeders (at a similar ratio) means that the torrent will be faster, since it’s more likely that some of those seeders will be geographically closer to me. Additionally, the larger no. of seeders means that they have more whole copies between all of them, so the greater no. also increases the uploaded data they receive from each other.

so how about combining torrents with nodes. logic says dividing the seed is good – no matter how small you share, it goes faster. i know it’s not my idea lol

although the peer/leech thing are just people mixing a real ‘leech’ (a peer that does not give back or is going to HIT and RUN)

with a real peer (someone who gives back more then they took)

Your always, ALWAYS supposed to give back a little more then what was taken at very minimum, if everyone did that, torrents would rarely die.

Its all about patience.

This is one of the reasons why private trackers generally have such great download speeds. Since users are required to seed as much as possible, they have torrents with 100 seeders and only two or three leechers.

The idea that everyone should seed rather than “leech” is a fallacy too. Seeders are important, but without peers (what most people call leechers), all the seeds are just sitting around with their thumbs up their butts. There’s no point in seeding if there are no peers to download from you. This is why I’ve never understood why peers are looked down on so much. Who are the seeders seeding for, if not the so-called leechers?

One improvement I’d like to see, is for BT clients to automatically allocate bandwidth for each torrent, based on the number of seeds each one has, to the point of dedicating all the bandwidth to low seed torrents and not giving any to torrents with many seeds. This could of course be overridden manually. Right now, I’m downloading a torrent with 3 seeds and 8 peers. This was the only torrent I could find for these files, so picking a different torrent isn’t an option. Right now, I’m connected to 2 seeds and 0 peers. My download speed is 5-9K/s. Since no IP addresses have been blocked by the IP filter, I have to assume the reason I’m not connecting to any of the peers is that all their upload slots have already been allocated to other files.

It seems that probably 75% of the torrents I download using public trackers are like this. Admittedly, I download some obscure stuff, but even movies from a couple years ago are the same way. I see people complaining because they can’t max out their 15Mbit connections, while I’m happy if the download speed breaks 100K/s!