Thursday, January 15, 2009

want to increase your share ratio in torrent sites?? part1

Many private .torrent communities are in the following situation:
You have to register to get an account. Maybe you have to apply for an invitation to hopefully get an account. Or you are told to donate using some potentially risky internet money transfer procedure you have never heard of. The number of accounts in this community is limited. And the boat is full in the sense that the maximum number of users is reached. So new potential leechers have to try and try and try or try to write a script to automate trying to register. But you are one of the lucky ones that currently have access. Until they dump you because you have been inactive for some time or your ratio is too bad. Your working account is basically fine for you. But this text is not about how to get an account if you don’t have one or don’t have one any more.
You find that the private tracker and its private community suffer a somewhat unnatural state with respect to the behaviour you would expect from the design of the bit torrent protocol. You see there are many more seeders than leechers in the total statistics. And you observe that many swarms do not deserve their name. They consist of some or many seeders and no or few leechers. And consequently the bandwidth and speed of the swarm is a shame if not dead at all. After thinking a minute the effect is clear. Users have to keep their share ratio up not to get banned and the number of leechers is limited by registration restriction. So seeders wait and wait and hope that some day leechers may pass by and download from them.
A natural behaviour of a running .torrent swarm should consist of some seeders and a crowd of many leechers. And in this shape the swarm should survive a relatively long time. Most of the load is burdened on the leechers as they exchange pieces to one another. The seeders only have to grant a 100% availability of the resource and fuel some bandwidth.
A further issue is that .torrent files of those private trackers are normally private .torrents. That means, that they are not capable of some dht / kademlia procedure and peer exchange is prohibited too. They only allow getting peer contacts from the tracker. The intention is the exclusive usage of the community tracker. But it istechnically possible to use a different tracker. It only has to be tracker communication.
To be continued in next part

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