Monday, March 10, 2008

Review of Torrent distribution

I was surprised to see that there was still a seed and 4 peers on my "Favorite Things" Torrent when I logged on this morning. I seeded it for the first two days on my 32K /sec upload connection, and then I let it go. At one point I saw 3 seeds and 10 peers. Cool. There are a couple issues with the torrent, one being that trackers aren't accurately seeding the seed-peer count, but I'm sure it's a small detail to figure out.
6 Days after initial seed, I figured there was a chance the torrent would be dead. A lot of torrents don't survive very long, especially ones that contain obscure media, so I'm definitely going to call this experiment a success, and within the next couple months I will start creating torrents for my video DVDs as well. hehe. In 2008 Vostek will spread his seed.