TORRENT MEGATHREAD - Full Game Downloads!

[timBUCK2]

test before deletion

EDIT- well i guess i can't delete.

Enough with the post padding! :tongue2:

 

[timBUCK2]

I'm just sayin'....

 

[BlockOFanatic]

I am currently Seeding Last week's Wash game, using old basic BitTorrent. I can't promise anything faster than 4 kB/s, but every little bit helps.

 

[neomits]

Ack!!! My HD recording didn't record. Sadness

 

[timBUCK2]

Ack!!! My HD recording didn't record. Sadness

They switched the programming from ESPN to ABC at the last second. I caught the change before opening kickoff, so I did get the full game. Lucky thing I skipped tailgating today!

 

[timBUCK2]

IT'S UP! IT'S GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!

Hey gang,

I just uploaded 2007 Game 4 vs Northwestern. You can download it here:

Pimptorrent
Demonoid

Enjoy!

tb2

:osu:

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Shit, mine's been stuck at 15.1% for a long time and it isn't downloading anymore.

 

[grounded]

15.1

hook us up you must have whent of line :osu:

 

[ExpatBuckeye]

No seeds online at the moment - everyone holding at 15.1%. Bummer.

TimBuck2, any chance you will share the file with a couple dedicated seeders before you start the seed?

 

[neomits]

No seeds online at the moment - everyone holding at 15.1%. Bummer.

TimBuck2, any chance you will share the file with a couple dedicated seeders before you start the seed?

that would just delay his posting of it.

He'll be back online soon enough and it'll start back up

 

[ExpatBuckeye]

that would just delay his posting of it.

He'll be back online soon enough and it'll start back up

Yes but the way Bittorrent works, the more initial seeds, the faster everyone gets the file - even if it took an hour to pass on the original file to one or more dedicated seeders, it could cut the total time for everyone else to finish from 20 hours to 4 hours.

 

[timBUCK2]

The NW game is back online. Just FYI.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Thanks Tim . Downloading now.

 

[bkochmc]

Hey gang,

I just uploaded 2007 Game 4 vs Northwestern. You can download it here:

Pimptorrent
Demonoid

Enjoy!

tb2

:osu:

That was quick! Thanks again Tim!

 

[rocketman]

Yes but the way Bittorrent works, the more initial seeds, the faster everyone gets the file - even if it took an hour to pass on the original file to one or more dedicated seeders, it could cut the total time for everyone else to finish from 20 hours to 4 hours.

I think the real bottleneck is the initial seeder's upload bandwidth. Lets say Tim can only upload at ~50 K/s which is normal for cable. If he serves it to 3 initial downloaders he's only giving around 16-17 K/s upload, meaning it would take around 46-47 hours to download (assuming the swarm speed is low, which it would be with only 4 people total in the swarm). You'd have to wait nearly 2 days more so you could get that initial group of seeders to feed the larger group.

The initial seeder sends different bits of information to everyone and with a huge swarm, the missing pieces get spread around rapidly. If a hundred people are trying to download off of Tim it is still faster than if only 3 people tried to get the file before everyone else does.

Bittorrent is horribly inefficient so it never works out as nicely as we'd all like it to. Everyone has different bandwidth amounts to allocate, different settings dictating how many upload slots they can allow, and some people just don't seed (bastards).

The only real solution is if we all chipped in and bought Tim a 100 MBPS line costing him thousands of dollars a month (not to mention he'd have to get his house and property zoned as a commercial lot). OR - we could just wait the 6-10 hours it takes to get the game.