Q about Torrent clients.

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FrustratedUser

Lifer
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Using ABC.

Looking at advanced torrent details. Can anyone tell me what 'Interesting, 'Choked' and 'Snubbed' means?
 
Saint Nick

Saint Nick

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i win once again

bitorrent never works on my PCs... whatever happened to the "original" bittorent client?
 
Mrvile

Mrvile

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jndietz needs a vacation.

Also, what is Limewire? I use it but I don't know if it's BT based or what. Anyone?
 
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akubi

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Originally posted by: Mrvile
jndietz needs a vacation.

Also, what is Limewire? I use it but I don't know if it's BT based or what. Anyone?
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gnutella based
 
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hypn0tik

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Originally posted by: Mrvile
jndietz needs a vacation.

Also, what is Limewire? I use it but I don't know if it's BT based or what. Anyone?
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Limewire is p2p like Kazaa. I've used it a few times but I didn't like it. I stuck with BT.
 
Mrvile

Mrvile

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Alright.

As of now I don't get any h4x from Limewire, and I think BT is a hassle (have to find ftps, download the torrent, then download the file from a client), so I'll just stick with LW for now.
 
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frodrick

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Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Using ABC.

Looking at advanced torrent details. Can anyone tell me what 'Interesting, 'Choked' and 'Snubbed' means?
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choked
This is a term used in the description of the BitTorrent protocol. It refers to the state of an uploader, i.e. the thread that sends data to another peer. When a connection is choked, it means that the transmitter doesn't currently want to send anything on that link. A BT client signals that it's choked to other clients for a number of reasons, but the most common is that by default a client will only maintain --max_uploads active simultaneous uploads, the rest will be marked choked. (The default value is 4 and this is the same setting that experimental client GUI lets you adjust.) A connection can also be choked for other reasons, for example a peer downloading from a seed will mark his connection as choked since the seed is not interested in receiving anything. Note that since each connection is bidirectional and symmetrical, there are two choked flags for each connection, one for each Tx endpoint.

interested
Another term used in the protocol specification. This is the corollary to the choked flag, in that interested refers to the state of a downloader with respect to a connection. A downloader is marked as interested if the other end of the link has any pieces that the client wants, otherwise the connection is marked as not interested.

snubbed
If the client has not received anything after a certain period (default: 60 seconds), it marks a connection as snubbed, in that the peer on the other end has chosen not to send in a while. See the definition of choked for reasons why an uploader might mark a connection as choked. The real function of keeping track of this variable is to improve download speeds. Occasionally the client will find itself in a state where even though it is connected to many peers, it is choked by all of them. The client uses the snubbed flag in an attempt to prevent this situation. It notes that a peer with whom it would like to trade pieces with has not sent anything in a while, and rather than leaving it up to the optimistic choking to eventuall select that peer, it instead reserves one of its upload slots for sending to that peer.

bt faq
 
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FrustratedUser

Lifer
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Originally posted by: frodrick
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Using ABC.

Looking at advanced torrent details. Can anyone tell me what 'Interesting, 'Choked' and 'Snubbed' means?
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choked
This is a term used in the description of the BitTorrent protocol. It refers to the state of an uploader, i.e. the thread that sends data to another peer. When a connection is choked, it means that the transmitter doesn't currently want to send anything on that link. A BT client signals that it's choked to other clients for a number of reasons, but the most common is that by default a client will only maintain --max_uploads active simultaneous uploads, the rest will be marked choked. (The default value is 4 and this is the same setting that experimental client GUI lets you adjust.) A connection can also be choked for other reasons, for example a peer downloading from a seed will mark his connection as choked since the seed is not interested in receiving anything. Note that since each connection is bidirectional and symmetrical, there are two choked flags for each connection, one for each Tx endpoint.

interested
Another term used in the protocol specification. This is the corollary to the choked flag, in that interested refers to the state of a downloader with respect to a connection. A downloader is marked as interested if the other end of the link has any pieces that the client wants, otherwise the connection is marked as not interested.

snubbed
If the client has not received anything after a certain period (default: 60 seconds), it marks a connection as snubbed, in that the peer on the other end has chosen not to send in a while. See the definition of choked for reasons why an uploader might mark a connection as choked. The real function of keeping track of this variable is to improve download speeds. Occasionally the client will find itself in a state where even though it is connected to many peers, it is choked by all of them. The client uses the snubbed flag in an attempt to prevent this situation. It notes that a peer with whom it would like to trade pieces with has not sent anything in a while, and rather than leaving it up to the optimistic choking to eventuall select that peer, it instead reserves one of its upload slots for sending to that peer.

bt faq
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:thumbsup:

:beer::D
 
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astralusion

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Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: astralusion
pretty sure it's not BT based
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What do you mean? Those are the column names when viewing who is connected.
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sorry...was meant towards the limewire question...not that Abc wasn't a BT client

 
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So

Lifer
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Originally posted by: stan394
Originally posted by: jndietz
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i win once again
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this is not slashdot, if i have not mistaken...
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WHAT? You mean I haven't been posting as Anonymous Coward all this time? :shocked:!!!
 
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