On 10-08, Eduard Giménez wrote:
> On Sunday 08 October 2006 16:39, Hal wrote:
> > Flushed with pride I tried two small files, 3mB and 9mB and the
> > bottom dropped out of it.. The d/l started at a typical 3.0kBs then
> > after half the first file it went to zero and stayed there for the
> > next 8 hours... What happened?? Can I presume that one of the
> > servers was down or extremely busy, if I'm reading how it works??
>
> BitTorrent works in a decentralized way, there are no servers that shall fail.
> Probably what is happening to you is that the other peers don't have the
> complete file. It's something habitual (currently I've a file stopped at 95%,
> and no other peer have it complete...), and you can only do two things:
> - wait
> - cancel
>
Thank you for the comments and further enlightenment.. I
found another FAQ that was more comprehensive than the others so know
a little more.. Your 95% comment attracted me as I read in the FAQ
that there were some hacker/crackers doing mischief by uploading
files than could not be fetched past "95%." You can't win eh?
At any rate with slow dialup here it doesn't seem I can
contribute too much to the project.. :^(
Thanks again,
--
Hal.
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