question about seeding torrents

sj.brodie
sj.brodie Posts: 468
edited May 2010 in Technical Stuff and Help
If anybody has ever uploaded a torrent>500MB, roughly how long would it take for another seeder to open up running on 40kB/s. I currently have 30 peers on my utorrent client and have uploaded 488 of the 502MB however none of those peers have exceeded 100MB individually. Since i have to be the sole provider of this file before another seed opens up, how much longer to really get the ball rolling?

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2229510/6358154/
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  • rafie
    rafie Posts: 2,160
    My bandwidth is to slow for me to be an uploader, but I would assume that waiting until you have a ratio of 3 - 5 would be enough. You don't have to wait until one person gets 100% of the file. If 2 people each get different halves of the file (50% each), they would collectively become a seeder.
    In a nutshell, it is all about the ratio.
    Hope this helps
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  • sj.brodie
    sj.brodie Posts: 468
    rafie wrote:
    My bandwidth is to slow for me to be an uploader, but I would assume that waiting until you have a ratio of 3 - 5 would be enough. You don't have to wait until one person gets 100% of the file. If 2 people each get different halves of the file (50% each), they would collectively become a seeder.
    In a nutshell, it is all about the ratio.
    Hope this helps

    Thanks very much rafie. It's a relief to know that i don't have to wait for one person to download the whole file. I guess that's the beauty of bittorrent. The "Availability" is now at 1.998 so if i'm correct, i'm expecting that second seeder to open up when Avail hits 2. Thanks again for your help!

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