P2P sharing program (7)

1 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2006-08-09 03:03 ID:QWipFq7b This thread was merged from the former /net/ board. You can view the archive here.

well i like to use p2p sharing programs but theres one thing i would like to know and maybe someone has an anwser for that:

WHY THE FREAKING CRAP DO MOST DOWNLOADS STOP WHEN THEY ARE 99,999999% DONE?!?!?!?!
IS IT LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO SHARE ARE LIKE: "HAHAHA THIS MORON'S DOWNLOAD IS ALMOST DONE... ILL STOP SHARING JUST ON THE LAST MOMENT HAHAHAHAHA"

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

2 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2006-08-09 07:52 ID:hocXPQZK

because they know you'll, in turn, most likely stop sharing the moment you get 100%

3 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2006-08-10 12:50 ID:NRF00qos

With some apps (e.g. early bittorrent clients) the 99.9% problem happens because of this:

  1. Your client requests the final piece of a file from somebody.
  2. This somebody either logs off after this, or queues you way down in his download queue, or chokes you (on bittorrent) or just has a veeeery slow upload speed.
  3. Your client is stuck with downloading from the other client at a very low speed (Or is waiting in queue, or is retrying a dozen times before it gives up), and you are stuck with 99.9%.

Newer p2p clients often fix this problem by using something called "Endgame mode": When only one piece is left, this piece is requested from all other peers at once.

4 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2006-08-11 16:35 ID:ku9JWA/j

What >>3 said (was interesting btw, didn't know about endgame mode)

Also see
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Torrents_stop_at_99_percent

5 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2006-08-13 06:25 ID:9Ucdeigj

>>1
Yeah. That happened to me just 5 days ago. Stopped at 98% and I coudn't find the bastard since. How cruel!

6 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2006-11-21 13:42 ID:Heaven

This is probably because the Original seeder wants you to seed to everybody else because you have 99% of the file/s instead of you just closing the seed after you get 100%

i think there is an special options for this also when you create an torrent for seeding to only seed 99,9%.

But if youre downloading a movie that is 99,9% you can just close it and the movie will still work :P

7 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2021-01-02 22:36 ID:z++zyy9I

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