 Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
kudos:1
 ·Comcast
| How does this help the downloader? The client rewards other clients that upload to you faster by unchoking them first. That doesn't necessarily mean that those clients will unchoke you first so you might not see any faster download speeds unless the other clients are also running BitTyrant and you are uploading faster than anyone else in the swarm.
If everyone is running BitTyrant than the people who upload the fastest will download the fastest. The rest will have to wait for the faster ones to finish. If those people seed this may speed things up overall, but if they don't seed then people with slow upload speeds will be out of luck. You'll see cases where instead of people uploading to 4 people at 10 kbps, they'll set up to upload to 2 people at 20 kbps or 1 person at 40 kbps to get better download priority.
An interesting thing about this client is that if there are multiple people in a swarm running this client who happen to have smaller upload pipes than the other non-BitTyrant client users, than the BitTyrant clients will not upload to each other since their ratios will be too low.
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