sprint113 Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 85 United States of America United States of America

Re: How to speed up 1.0 download Quote: Daniel Originally Posted by





Any idea why it takes minutes till it finally understands our internet connection is much faster? -.- Nice link. thx.Any idea why it takes minutetill it finally understands our internet connection is much faster? -.-



When you first start a torrent, you spend the beginning asking around for open download spots. Many of the people you ask will have all their upload slots in use and will refuse you. Those that you do connect to will only provide just a portion of their total upload speed (which is typically already quite slow) since they are uploading to other people at the same time. But over time, you will build up the number of connections you have to people with free slots and your download speed will gradually build.



The wikipedia article covers the topic in much greater detail. Despite the piratey reputation that bittorrent has, it is pretty much the most efficient way for a small developer to quickly share a huge file to a large number of people. It's just the way that bittorrent works.When you first start a torrent, you spend the beginning asking around for open download spots. Many of the people you ask will have all their upload slots in use and will refuse you. Those that you do connect to will only provide just a portion of their total upload speed (which is typically already quite slow) since they are uploading to other people at the same time. But over time, you will build up the number of connections you have to people with free slots and your download speed will gradually build.The wikipedia article covers the topic in much greater detail. Despite the piratey reputation that bittorrent has, it is pretty much the most efficient way for a small developer to quickly share a huge file to a large number of people.