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kirbyzzz:
Hi!
I think I've gotten the hang of using Bakabt and most of the downloading/seeding parts.
I've just got a few questions left and I'll be set for life ^^
1.) What is initial seeding? Is it better than just regular seeding? I've googled it but none of the answers satisfied me.
2.) What does it mean for a tracker to be offline (timed out) and why does it happen?
3.) Is there a limit of how many things can be seeded at one time for Bakabt or through uTorrent?
Thanks in advance!

zherok:
1. Initial seeding is for when there's only a single seed in the swarm. If you're not the initial seeder don't bother turning it on, it won't help your seeding performance.
2. The tracker is no longer connecting you to other users and in the case of private trackers like bakabt you're no longer having your stats tracked for any peers you're connected to while the tracker remains offline. They go offline for a variety of reasons, but most frequently it goes down for maintenance at a set time and lasts about an hour.
3. Nope, though you can limit it yourself if you wanted to through your client. Still capped by your upload limit though.

Al_Sleeper:

--- Quote from: zherok on February 04, 2013, 02:38:14 AM ---1. Initial seeding is for when there's only a single seed in the swarm. If you're not the initial seeder don't bother turning it on, it won't help your seeding performance.
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Besides, from my experience, its net effect is close to zero on BakaBT.

zherok:
Apparently different clients implement it differently. But are there that many torrents here that even have a single seed for all that long?

Van.:

--- Quote from: zherok on February 04, 2013, 07:20:34 AM ---But are there that many torrents here that even have a single seed for all that long?

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Think about the meaning of the word "Initial"  ;)
This function is only for the initial seeding, when only one peer has all files.
I think it's necessary only for seeding of large torrents on a slow connection.
I personally never used it.

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