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Re: sounds like Emule/Edonkey it never used to be that way pre QR.
When edonkey first came out, the only thing that stopped leeching was the "You set your upload to at least 10kb's or we're throttling your download" method. once people hacked the client, people started screaming "The Network is gonna die! DO SOMETHING!!", so other clients including ednkey2000 started implementing Queue Ranking based on upload/download ratio.
Pre QR. You could easily saturate a pipe. I watched someone take a T1 down downloading redhat from it back in 2000. and had the file in less than 15 minutes. Queue's were never a problem and initial start never took longer than 1 hour and only if the file was very rare.
Now. you'd have to wait 2 days for one of the file holders to feel pity on you and start uploading to you and then you might break 20kb's as you upload to people who still need that very part you downloaded. Meanwhile the 900 other holders of the file ignore you because they have the entire file and never download from you, thus denying you to download from them.
And if you're talking about Edonkey2000's Horde, that was a joke. no one outside of edonkey2000 supported it, and by then 90-95% of clients were e-mule based.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Another problem with Emule is that Emule will keep starting uploads until the average upload is at 2-4kbyteps per upload (unless the uploader uses a mod), so unless a client has few files/no one in queue, you cant download faster than 2-4kbyteps per user, only chance of getting a higher speed is download from other users at same time. | |
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