Posted: 9/11/2006 10:26 PM
Post subject: Suggestion: Super Seed the movies at first.
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Speccer
Joined: 7/5/2005
Posts: 10
I don't exactly know if this is possible, but I've noticed with a few movies lately that the only/original seed distributes the file to so many people at a time that the file takes forever for everyone to download. There's a feature on Azureus called Super Seeding (I don't know if it's on any other client) which caters to just such a situation. It instead focuses on one peer at a time in the beginning so as to increase the number of seeds. This would increase the availability and circumvent the problem where the seed is trickling information to 100+ leechers, which is currently happening with the Sonic Advance 3 movie (although I have seen it before; I just can't remember specifically what other movies this happened to).
Disclaimer: The above post was not intended to make sense.
Posted: 9/11/2006 10:29 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
Super seed is designed to drive up the distributed copies number as quickly as possible. It's good, but not a silver bullet. The problem with Sonic Advance 3 is that the seed is horribly slow. Putting it in superseed mode won't do any good. In the time it takes someone to download a piece, they could have uploaded two others (or more) to other people. The result is that pieces are being spread very well and very quickly. The choice to superseed is up to the publisher. Given the situation, I say that Sonic Advance 3 would not benefit. Depending on the algorithm implementation details, it might even hurt.
Posted: 9/11/2006 10:29 PM
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Nach
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Joined: 3/9/2004
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Right. Let's suggest I use Super Seeding now even though I'm using it already. Any other suggestions you'd like to make that I'm already doing? Patience is a virtue, you're not going to get it faster unless you want to donate some serious money.
Warning: Opinions expressed by Nach or others in this post do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or position of Nach himself on the matter(s) being discussed therein.
Posted: 9/11/2006 11:31 PM
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Speccer
Joined: 7/5/2005
Posts: 10
I'm sorry if I offended you =/ I just thought that it might have sped up the process for the many people downloading. That's why I only meant it as a suggestion and didn't go "OMFG USE THIS NOW". Like I said, I've seen it happen before and thought it might prevent any future occurrences as well. I didn't mean anything against anyone.
Disclaimer: The above post was not intended to make sense.
Posted: 9/12/2006 6:42 AM
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SpiDeY
Joined: 11/29/2005
Posts: 317
Location: Sao Paulo - Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_seeding
Posted: 9/12/2006 3:08 PM
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Warp
Banned User, Former player
Joined: 3/10/2004
Posts: 7698
Location: Finland
Someone needs to chill out.