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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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...

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do you consider choked? I know a lot of people do not have good upload speeds regardless of what the download speeds are.

[–] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] assa123@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hey, no need to be sarcastic! /s

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

OK, i have mine capped to not bog down the network but it's still way more than that, lol.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This seems to happen alot. I always wondered if it is really a peer or some weird spoofed peer that just tries to give you hope before crushing your dreams.

[–] TheOakTree@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Most likely it's someone who has a VPN that doesn't support P2P upload or has their config messed up.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't torrents be able to solve that issue because everyone is sharing with everyone else?

The last peer might only have 10kbps upload but as long as the other peers are sharing with one another everyone can pull down 10kbps because that is how fast new data is getting sent to the swarm.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Seeds fall off quickly on public trackers and the people who do long-term seeding on publics tend to end up seeding larger libraries. So you'll often be the one person in the world seeding a large number of torrents. Multiple leeches is only a theoretical help because when it finally seeds out, half the people quit immediately, some hang around to seed to the last leechers, and a couple hang around for a week or two before feeling they've done their due diligence and signing off. Things are quiet on that torrent for a month or so, and then a new leech shows up and the whole thing repeats again. It's why I stopped seeding on publics: it's extremely demoralizing to finally get copies of something out to the dozen or so people who have accumulated, only for every one of them to fuck off right after they finish.