>> - 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 file is broken up into blocks, you know, rather than transferred 
> sequentially.
> 
> So, the client will download one block from you, while downloading other 
> blocks from other seeds.  You'll still be helping.

Yes, but the BT algorithm is to try to select the peers which give you 
the fastest download rate - to reduce leaching, but mainly so you 
download from whichever peers are topologically "nearest" to you.

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