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JonathanLH · 27-12-2005, 16:28

Most public trackers are fairly slow unless you have a decent upload speed, due to the amount of people on them and since the bittorrent system works on a "tit-for-tat" basis.
ie, someone sends to you, if you send to them, kind of like a priority thing. (unless they are way more seeds than leechers anyway).
one solution is to use private torrent sites, or as bill rightly says, newsgroups (better for ntl too since it's all internal ntl bandwidth)

27-12-2005, 16:28	#5
JonathanLH Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Grimsby, UK Age: 42 Services: NTL 10Mbit Posts: 126	Re: Probabily a stupid question but.... Most public trackers are fairly slow unless you have a decent upload speed, due to the amount of people on them and since the bittorrent system works on a "tit-for-tat" basis. ie, someone sends to you, if you send to them, kind of like a priority thing. (unless they are way more seeds than leechers anyway). one solution is to use private torrent sites, or as bill rightly says, newsgroups (better for ntl too since it's all internal ntl bandwidth)