slickr Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 i want to download a torrent but it has no seeders, now i've read that if the torent client supports DHT the file will begin downloading with good speeds! Is this true, how much before it starts to download with DHT and what average speeds will i download!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Shroud Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 If the .torrent's health is below 100% you can either wait and download what you can from other peers and pray a seeder comes back. Or find a new .torrent. www.torrentz.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 DHT is just an alternative way of finding more peers without relying on the tracker. That's all it does. The peers it does find get lumped in with those the tracker provided. If there are no seeds, this means that nobody in the swarm has a full copy of the torrent contents. This may be bad news. The torrent "health" indicates how many complete copies of the contents exist in the aggregate among swarm members. If it's less than 100%, it means that a complete copy doesn't exist, and the torrent may never complete unless more members join and have the missing parts, or are themselves seeders. In this situation, the torrent will still transfer, until all swarm members have all available pieces. Everyone will have (say) 77%, and downloading will basically go to zero because nobody has any pieces that you don't already have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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