Problem

aries83

So, I've been seeding a torrent for about 12 hours now.

There are 18 seeders, including myself, and a handful of leechers.

In the "Peers" tab of uTorrent 2.2.1, there's a leecher that has been stuck at 56.4% for some time.

In general, there's a big gap in availability despite there being 18 seeders. (See attached image)

All I can figure is that that particular leecher must've skipped a file in the torrent and that's why it's only showing that they've downloaded 56.4% of it?

I'm just concerned about the availability of the torrent. I don't want people getting stuck because of one person.

Or, is that not how it works? If there are 18 people seeding, I would think any new leechers would have plenty of connections to complete the torrent.

But, I don't understand why there's this huge gap in availability (in the General tab) after 12 hours of seeding?

Does anyone have any idea as to what's going on? $:-\$

aries83

Popper

Yes, you got it right. Any new downloading peer got plenty seeds to download from and the one who is stable at a part will have disabled some files from download.

The gap explains with the fact that your client will not connect to other seeder, because there is no need to exchange anything with them, like your client the other seeders got all files.

So what you see as availability is the shared sum of what you as seeder and all other downloading peers your client connects own (have) together and you as seeder count for 1.000 (a complete copy) in there.

There is some emphasis on "connect", because there can be other downloading peers, having other parts, but your client haven't established a connection to them. You can see out of how many availabe (the number in "()") by the number before it.

aries83

@Popper:

Yes, you got it right. Any new downloading peer got plenty seeds to download from and the one who is stable at a part will have disabled some files from download.

The gap explains with the fact that your client will not connect to other seeder, because there is no need to exchange anything with them, like your client the other seeders got all files.

Thank you for the reply, Popper. I really appreciate it. I knew that leecher had to have skipped something in the torrent. Thanks for confirming it.

That leecher is gone and the torrent is going strong, so the problem is resolved

aries83