Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> - I have ADSL. That stands for ASYMMETRIC Digital Subscriber Line. In 
> laymen's terms, by download rate is about 5x faster than my upload rate. 
> I can download at the speedy rate of around 310 KB/sec, but I can only 
> *upload* at a maximum of about 46 KB/sec.
> 
> - This means that it is physically impossible for me to upload 
> particularly fast. That should hypothetically result in low download 
> speeds.
> 
> - As it happens, seeders by definition don't download anything. So they 
> can't upload to others based on how fast they download form them. They 
> therefore upload to the fastest clients. So I still get a nice download 
> rate.
> 
> - But wait! This torrent has 450 seeders and 3 downloaders. And I 
> sometimes see 200 KB/sec from a single seeder, so... why THE HELL is any 
> peer going to download from me at a piffling 40 KB/sec when there are 
> peers out there at least 5x faster?

The wikipedia article mentions some aspects of BT that specifically take 
this into account.

> - The whole share rating thing is a bit short-signed too. If I upload 
> 10MB to a 100MB torrent, I get a 10% rating. If I upload 100MB to a 
> 1,000MB torrent... I get a 10% rating. In one case I've helped way, way 
> more, but I still get the same rating.

But in all technicality, you've helped exactly the same, relative to the 
whole torrent.  Which is the only relevant measure.

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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