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TORRENT MEGATHREAD - Full Game Downloads!

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DVD Folder or ISO?

  • DVD Folder

    Votes: 3 100.0%

  • ISO

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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    3
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neomits;937958; said:
that would just delay his posting of it.

He'll be back online soon enough and it'll start back up
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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.
 
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ExpatBuckeye;937967; said:
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.
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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.
 
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