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Tom Horsley wrote:
I'm using ktorrent because it has more junk on the screen to keep you occupied while waiting :-). One of the things it displays in the status is very similar to other torrent clients, and I've never seen any explanation of it. There are two boxes, one labeled Leechers: the other labeled Seeders: Inside the boxes are numbers like this: 5(10) or 1(1).
WHAT IN THE BLUE BLAZES DOES THAT MEAN?
Same as every other BT client. Seeders are those who have a completely downloaded file and are uploading only there are 10 seeders who have the file you are getting, but only 5 are connected to the swarm. Likewise there is 1 leech (someone other than you) in the swarm (that's the number in parentheses) and 1 is uploading to the swarm. Note that not everyone is uploading to you at any one time, but when your BT asks the swarm for a particular packet 1 of them will respond.
If you do study the source, maybe you can figure out why sometimes I have a lot of seeders/leeches in the swarm, but no one is uploading to me, (AAAAAAARGH!). or (worse?) I get speeds of 1 or 2kbps or less (double AAAAAAARGH!)
HTH
Scott
Will I have to download the source to a torrent client, and decrypt the code that prints status to find out why there are two numbers and what the one in parens means versus the one not in parens?
Its cryptic stuff like this what causes unrest :-).