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@eobox91103 swarm simply refers to the collective of all peers who are active in the distribution of a torrent regardless of whether they are downloading or uploading. in this sense, there is only one swarm.

what you described can happen, still. that is because the tracker, who is responsible for peer discovery, often limits the number of peers that can be discovered, and the peer list you get is determined by the tracker's algorithm. it is possible to end up with a peer list that is not very useful.

but it's worth noting that peer discovery occurs every time your client re-announces itself to the tracker, and you might get another subset of peers.

this is not a protocol rule, each tracker has its own rules. some trackers might report all peers in very specific scenarios, some trackers might report only partial peers in all scenarios.

i will soon write a topic to help elucidate this better, along with other words from torrenting terminology.

@lololulu19

Freeleech has a fixed amount of time. When the time runs out, anyone downloading it starts getting charged again.

Thanks! This is fantastic.

Welcome back @blittle !! I came in on the same boat 🙂

Much faster (there is even a poll on that) and this new forum is quite new, having been opened up just last month!

Ricky

Yes… What you are doing is fine. The main reason why we say not to share the .torrent files is because they contain your personal passkey, which can compromise the security of your account.

That being said however, submitting the .torrent files and the contents to a seed box in order to help share the content with other users is perfectly acceptable. Also, there is nothing saying that you cannot use multiple IP addresses (as I use at least 2 myself on a regular basis). The only thing is that you cannot use more than one account on the same IP address, so as long as you're only doing things with your own account, you're in the clear.