torrent questions

[chryse]

1. what exactly is an "average" dl speed from a torrent? ok, not exactly... but what is a good dl speed assuming that everything is working properly and you haven't just hit on a slow dl?

2. how many torrents can you have open at one time?

3. what is demoniod that I've been seeing around here?

4. what does dead mean?

5. what are the problems with the tracker on datorrents? I've read a few things, but is there a place where one can read what all the problems are?

[seorang]

Originally Posted by chryse

1. what exactly is an "average" dl speed from a torrent? ok, not exactly... but what is a good dl speed assuming that everything is working properly and you haven't just hit on a slow dl?

2. how many torrents can you have open at one time?

3. what is demoniod that I've been seeing around here?

4. what does dead mean?

5. what are the problems with the tracker on datorrents? I've read a few things, but is there a place where one can read what all the problems are?

1. Well, nobody can give a right answer to that. Ultimate maximum download speed is limited by the max speed of your line. As for acceptable download speed, that would vary with size of torrent and peer count. I wouldn't be worried if I were going at 5kB/s on a 20MB music torrent, but same speed on a 10GB torrent, then it'd definitely take a long time.

2. Well, you set the limits of how many torrents you want going at the same time. Most clients allow you to configure that. Again, depends on your speed, connection, and kind of torrents you have going. After all, if you've got only a 30kB/s max download speed on your line, spreading it on 10 torrents means that you're getting an average 3kB/s on each, which makes for long waiting.

If you got fast torrents in queue, might wanna set it so that you do less at the same time, but you complete some torrents earlier, so you have something to entertain you while you wait for the rest. If you've got torrents that you know are going to be slow, maybe then let more run at the same time, if you know that its not going to go faster even if you run less torrents.

3. Are you referring to Demonoid? They're another semi-private torrent tracker, which cover a variety of both western and some asian torrents, but obviously with less specialization compared to our focus on asian media only.

4. Dead usually refers to torrents without a seeder, without a complete file shared between all peers, or totally without seeders and peers.

Again, as shown in the above paragraph, multiple different ideas of a "dead" torrent. General consensus of a "dead" torrent seems to be a torrent which you will probably not be able to get a complete download if you running it.

5. We've got a few problems with our current tracker at the moment. Ratio tracking and management is currently broken, and some torrents are shown to have 0 seeders and 0 peers, even when they are not. Thus, it is much advised that you download the torrent and actually run it so that you see the true number of seeds/peers on it, just in case it is still actually a live torrent.

New tracker upgrades are currently being discussed and in the works here.

[chryse]

ok. Thanks.. I'll probably have more questions later.

*still has no idea what I'm doing and goes off to read more FAQ things*

eta:
weird. I find chat and xdcc easier to understand and use. I always hated irc/chat programs (for no particular reason... dusts off Snak)