Torrent question

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 26 October 2006 19:34, John Bowden wrote:
> Anne Wilson writes:
> > On Thursday 26 October 2006 17:32, John Bowden wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson writes:
> >> > I completed the DVD download yesterday and have been seeding since
> >> > then. Azureus, though tells me that the Ratio is bad, at 0.376 (<
> >> > 0.5).  What does this mean?
> >> >
> >> > Anne
> >>
> >> It means you are downloading much more than you are sharing. if
> >> that figure is for the fedora dl then it means the fedara
> >> download has not up loadded much yet.
> >
> > The problem is that I'm seeing two different ratio figures.  One says
> > 0.903, which makes sense to me.  I finished the download yesterday and
> > I'm still uploading, but take-up is well below the limit I set - less
> > than half.  I've still only uploaded 2.7GB.
> >
> > On the status line, though, is a red light, saying that the ratio is now
> > 0.392.  This is the one I was asking about, as it makes no sense.
> >
> > Anne
>
> The red light at the bottem is an overall mesurement showing the
> ratio for all downloads / uploads. It is ether red or green and
> stays red untill you have uploadded as much as you have
> downloadded or uploadded a little bit more. If there is a lot of
> people shareing a file then your upload tends to slow down.
>
OK - at least I understand that, and I would stay there anyway until I had at 
least equalled the download.  The upload is very slow, though.

Anne
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