There's a nice little graphic next to each file that shows how many pieces of the files have been downloaded. On the Files Tab, we can see the state of individual files in the torrent. If a torrent loses all its seeds, it is in deep trouble. The other 19 peers will remain peers until they manage to download 100% of the data, and then they become seeds too. It's no coincidence that there are also 6 peers with a complete copy of the data – these critically important peers are known as "seeds". An availability of 5.93 indicates there are almost 6 complete copies of the torrent data in the swarm.
That's the minimum, assuming you want to download everything. It's also indicated numerically an availability of 1 means the entire file is available. The darker the bars, the more copies of that particular section are available in the swarm. In our case, the availability graphic is a nice, solid blue – there are no red bars indicating missing sections. That's important, because the biggest weakness of the torrent system is that it requires a certain level of popularity to work at all. On the General Tab, we can see that the torrent is fairly well seeded. Let's take a quick visual tour through the main tabs in uTorrent I'll point out the most interesting parts.
I love poring over the torrent metrics they're beautifully presented – an excellent example of how to visually depict a complex set of data in a meaningful way. However, as good as the web UI is, it pales in comparison to the incredibly deep informatics that uTorrent provides on the state of your BitTorrent download. I've talked before about the remarkable parity between the uTorrent web user interface and the windows user interface. I was able to locate a torrent of all the Boomtown episodes, and I'm downloading it now. What's a poor, law-abiding citizen of the United States of America to do?īitTorrent to the rescue. In this case, it was cancelled right in the middle of season two – and the incomplete season was never released on DVD. Unfortunately, Boomtown, like so many other great shows, was cancelled in its prime.
I recently rented the television series Boomtown from Netflix, but I belatedly realized that the particular episode I really wanted to see was a part of season two. By some estimates, torrent data may account for as much as 35% of all internet traffic. Everybody loves BitTorrent, and I love it too. It's such a joy to use – a tiny, native application that offers a best-of-breed implementation of the BitTorrent protocol.
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