2009/11/19 म.हा.सा.ग.र <[email protected]> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:45 PM, G Karunakar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Mayuresh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just started donwloading Fedora 12 torrent. > >> > >> Always wonder when I download a new distro why the peers list that the > torrent > >> client shows so few peers from India. (I use ktorrent which shows the > country > >> of a connected peer. May be other clients too show this.) > >> > >> US tops the list of peers' countires followed by China, Russia when I > observed > >> just now. > >> > >> Is it that, not too many in India download or it has anything to do with > the > >> bandwidths in India i.e. the torrent clients might be choosing peers > with > >> better speeds etc. > >> > > > > > > Or the other way that we tend to limit/kill uploads when downloading > > from torrents! Or so to say there are more leechers than seeders! > > Sure many still have bandwidth limitations, but still could let it > > share while their own download goes. > > > > Karunakar > > > > i donot know the full technical details of how torrents downloads > work, but when i used it once i decided to have only few uploading > connections while i was downloading from many sources... i do not know > if and what should be called leachers or seeders... > > The words ( leachers and seeders ) appear to be too strong (and are > too closely associated with certain explanations) sometimes to invoke > certain kind of user response... although there is very little that > can be done to change the user response... > > -- > १. Stupid question always warrants a stupid answer! > २. No question is ever stupid! > > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List >
*Reasons:* 1: Not too many use Linux 2: Not too many who use Linux download Linux (get it from magazines/friends) 3: Not too many Linux users have unlimited broadband 4: Not too many Linux users having unlimited broadband seed torrents after downloading. *What you can do about it:* 1: Nothing -- http://www.owaislone.tumblr.com _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
