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6/15/2025, 6:56:20 PM
>>1530112
>I'll see a torrent, and it will say something like "309 seeders, 4 leeches" and then I download it and only connect to 1 or 2 peers
You may think of each bitorrented item as a Cloud of users. What you connect to is a set of AVAILABLE users from that cloud and that set of users is your Swarm. If not mamy people are available because their clients are already connected to others up to the limits set in their client, then your Swarm remains small. Or your client has settings that reject non-encrypted users, etcetera.
As for connecting to Seeders, that's if they are available. Let's say a seeder allows four SIMULTANEOUS upload connections for that torrent. It's quite possible that you won't connect to that seeder because other users are holding on tight. So you are dependent on the uploads from those users already connected to that seeder.
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>I'll see a torrent, and it will say something like "309 seeders, 4 leeches" and then I download it and only connect to 1 or 2 peers
You may think of each bitorrented item as a Cloud of users. What you connect to is a set of AVAILABLE users from that cloud and that set of users is your Swarm. If not mamy people are available because their clients are already connected to others up to the limits set in their client, then your Swarm remains small. Or your client has settings that reject non-encrypted users, etcetera.
As for connecting to Seeders, that's if they are available. Let's say a seeder allows four SIMULTANEOUS upload connections for that torrent. It's quite possible that you won't connect to that seeder because other users are holding on tight. So you are dependent on the uploads from those users already connected to that seeder.
Info Source for Bittorrent News
https://torrentfreak.com/
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