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>> - 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?
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> 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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