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How does your BT Client decide what Seeder and Peers it is going to Leech from if the BT client has a heaps of seeders to choose from?

How bittorrent protocol works

Basically, fastest seeders take preference. That's why seedboxes get so much upload.

Konj writes...

Basically, fastest seeders take preference. That's why seedboxes get so much upload.

So the leeching client would prefer to have 1 fast connection then 10 slow ones?

Correct. That is the most efficient allocation of bandwidth since overhead is required to communicate with each additional peer.

Konj writes...

Correct. That is the most efficient allocation of bandwidth since overhead is required to communicate with each additional peer.

How does the leeching BT Client know who has the most bandwidth available...By testing each seeder?

Enticer writes...

How does the leeching BT Client know who has the most bandwidth available...By testing each seeder?

Bittorrent Protocol

http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/23.html

When a leecher connects to the swarm, it sends out a request to all the seeders for pieces of the torrent. Those that can upload the pieces the fastest will get requests for more pieces. Therefore, the requests will be prioritised to those who can upload the fastest and slower peers are dropped in favour of faster ones.

Konj writes...

When a leecher connects to the swarm, it sends out a request to all the seeders for pieces of the torrent. Those that can upload the pieces the fastest will get requests for more pieces. Therefore, the requests will be prioritised to those who can upload the fastest and slower peers are dropped in favour of faster ones.

By Jove, that's it. :D

The snub and unsnub process, white man magic.

Muad'Dib writes...

How bittorrent protocol works

If you would, can you please tell me the paragraph number in the first link of the google search where the question below can be answered. I am not as technically advanced as you.

How does your BT Client decide what Seeder and Peers it is going to Leech from if the BT client has a heaps of seeders to choose from?

Muad'Dib writes...

Bittorrent Protocol

http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/23.html

If you'd be kind enough to point the paragraph number in these two also please.

Enticer writes...

If you'd be kind enough to point the paragraph number in these two also please.

That link was supplied for general reading.

Enticer writes...

How does your BT Client decide what Seeder and Peers it is going to Leech from if the BT client has a heaps of seeders to choose from?

/forum-replies.cfm?t=1234361#r8

You must have missed this.

I've always wondered, what does "manual announce", "external announce" and "finish allocation", mean?

Manual announce is when you force your client to announce to the tracker, rather than waiting for the default 45 minute interval.

External announce is when you announce to another tracker tracking the same set of files, giving you access to an additional pool of peers.

Konj writes...

Manual announce

Not recommended by tracker admins as it tends to crash some trackers.

TheDave writes...

"finish allocation"

LMGTFY

I didn't miss it at all.

Either Konj was very perceptive when he read the document that you linked us to (and then summerised it for me) or he already understood how it works and could share is information with us in layman's terms.

Thanks for your input Konj.