Seeds and Peers

evil-monkey

Quick question...

I know what seeds and peers are, but what exactly do the following denote;

Seeds: 16 (66) Peers: 19 (106)

What are the numbers in the brackets?? I would have read that as 16 seeds and 19 peers...but what exactly do the numbers in the brackets mean??

evil-monkey

bedlam wrote: »

number of seeds you are getting file from (Total number of seeds for the file) and same for the peers

but why would i be getting the file from only a certain number of the seeds??

for example; Seeds 1 (2628)

why am i only getting the file from 1 seed, yet there is a total of 2628 seeds for the file??

Overheal

When a peer seeds a file they have to establish a connection with the leech in order to upload the file. To upload to 3 leeches at once he needs to open 3 connections. Each leech only needs to establish 1 connection.

If you have a 1:1 or lower swarm ratio (seeds:leechers), typically youre meant to get 1 connection, or less. also p2p will always try to establish the fastest connections possible, so if the seeds are located in North America or Asia, you're probably going to get fewer connections than someone living in Japan or Canada.

New p4p protocols being pushed forward by american cable companies will ultimately rework it even further, so that a peer connection will put much higher priority on connections that have shorter network hops to eachother: http://gizmodo.com/5076131/comcast-tests-new-p2p-protocol-nearly-doubles-download-speeds

Here's something you don't expect to see: Comcast taking part in a test of new P4P file sharing protocol that offers up greatly increased speeds. And they actually want to make its use widespread. What's the catch here?

Essentially, the system localizes peer-to-peer file sharing. Right now, when you hop on a torrent, you download and upload data from and to people all over the world. It's quite inefficient. P4P prioritizes peers who are on your local ISP network, making downloads both much faster and much more efficient.

The system relies on iTrackers being installed on ISPs networks. The more networks that run iTrackers, the better the P4P system will run and the faster the speeds will be. Comcast is pushing to make the iTrackers an Internet Engineering Task Force standard, which would help the spread and use of the software greatly.

They want this because this is an actual win/win situation in the file-sharing front. P2P users get better speeds and Comcast gets less load on their backbone. Group hug, y'all!

barnicles

The one in brackets is the amount connected to the tracker afaik.