LT-seeding questions

[DeanHet7]

Hey!

So, Is it possible for me to see which files/tasks are being uploaded through LT-seeding?

Does LT-seeding uploading give me points on my ID? (I mean the points that you gather and "level-up" and get more connections to DL from LT-seeds)

Is it possible that, if I am uploading too much with LT the other tasks won't upload through BT? I know LT gets dinamically limited to let BT upload but if my bandwidth gets loaded with LT, naturally the BT tasks will find it more difficult to connect, so BT won't start uploading and consequently LT will not limit itself to let BT take place?

[greywizard]

... but if my bandwidth gets loaded with LT, naturally the BT tasks will find it more difficult to connect, so BT won't start uploading and consequently LT will not limit itself to let BT take place?

Well, that is one of the main reasons why users are requested to limit their Global Upload Rate to 80% of their tested upload speed.

LT-Seeding or not, if you don't do that, chances are very high that your client will choke itself even on plain BitTorrent connections, only.

OTOH, if you do limit your upload rate, below your connection's upload capabilities, any of the applications running on your system will always have some available upstream bandwidth for protocol overhead.

As for your other worry you can check even empirically, that as soon as there is a downloading task in the Task List, LT-Seeding throttles down to give it room for starting to communicate. If your tasks are heavily uploading it will go down to virtually nothing, almost.

And if you're really paranoid about this, you can always limit manually the amount of bandwidth that LT-Seeding is allowed to use (in Options).

[kluelos]

LT seeding is intended to use bandwidth that you are otherwise not using at all. It's there to "fill in the cracks", and not to replace standard seeding. It's intended to use just a trickle of bandwidth available on your connection that otherwise just isn't used at all. You have control of the maximum bandwidth it's allowed to use, and you want to keep that small.

If your upstream bandwidth is fully occupied with seeding, downloading and netsurfing, then you ideally want no LT seeding at all. But if there's, say, 5 KB/s you're not using for anything, then LT seeding would slot into that nicely. Somebody downloading the torrent wouldn't get much out of that 5 KB/s -- it would make you a pretty poor standard connection -- but as a trickle via LT seeding, consolidated with other LT seeders, it adds up to a reasonably respectable amount for someone.

[DeanHet7]

okay, ty guys

what about seeing which files are being UP by LT? can it be done?

and does LT uploading count towards cometID ranking?

[greywizard]

Since the amount of data uploaded by LT-Seeding is counted in the Total Upload number, I'd say that it does count on ranking.

You can see the task for which LT-Seeding is uploading by enabling system.show_debug_info in Options-->Advanced and then adding the LT-Seeding column in your Task List.

But the dev team doesn't recommend it for daily operations since it more CPU intensive.