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===== Long-Time Seeding ===== | ===== Long-Time Seeding ===== | ||
- | **Long-Time Seeding,** a unique feature of BitComet, helps users to get data from peers who have 100% of the torrent contents. For some out-dated torrents, it's common that there are no seeds, and without | + | **Long-Time Seeding,** a unique feature of BitComet, helps users to get data from peers who have 100% of the torrent contents. For some out-dated torrents, it' |
- | In this way, LT-Seeding may also help revive a dead torrent (i.e. if the peers who managed to finish their download through LT-Seeding will keep seeding the task long enough to create other BT seeds into the swarm or at least to create multiple aggregate copies). | + | Since LT-Seeds upload even when the task is stopped in the Task List, in this way, LT-Seeding may also help revive a dead torrent (i.e. if the peers who managed to finish their download through LT-Seeding will keep seeding the task long enough to create other BT seeds into the swarm or at least to create multiple aggregate copies). |
- | LT-Seeding upload is done through the LT-Seeding protocol which is proprietary to BitComet. LT-Seeding upload is independent of the upload done through the BitTorrent protocol and can be done in parallel with that or alone, depending on the state of the task (seeding or stopped).\\ LT-Seeds are clients | + | LT-Seeding upload is done through the LT-Seeding protocol which is proprietary to BitComet. LT-Seeding upload is independent of the upload done through the BitTorrent protocol and can be done in parallel with that or alone, depending on the state of the task (seeding or stopped).\\ LT-Seeds are peers which hold 100% of the files for the task __irrespective__ |
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+ | LT-Seeding clients use a server (the equivalent of a tracker, in the BitTorrent protocol) for querying and finding peers (LT-Seeds) for the tasks which have LT-Seeding enabled. This is done by using a unique LT-hash which is being computed for every file of the task.\\ | ||
+ | If that option is enabled (see below), then at the creation of any // | ||
+ | For // | ||
- | LT-Seeding clients use a server (the equivalent of a tracker, in the BitTorrent protocol) for querying and finding peers (LT-Seeds) for the tasks which have LT-Seeding enabled. This is done by using a unique LT-hash which is being computed for every task. | ||
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* //Upload rate limit for Long-Time Seeding//: If you wish to manually control and assign bandwidth for LT-Seeding upload, you can limit the upload rate using this option. 【Overall upload rate limit has higher priority than the Long-Time Seeding upload rate limit】 | * //Upload rate limit for Long-Time Seeding//: If you wish to manually control and assign bandwidth for LT-Seeding upload, you can limit the upload rate using this option. 【Overall upload rate limit has higher priority than the Long-Time Seeding upload rate limit】 | ||
- | **Requirement for Long-Time Seeding**: A BitComet client must have an open port! LAN users must enable this function after [[add_port_mapping_in_nat_router|Adding Port Mapping]] and the status light became green. | + | **Requirement for Long-Time Seeding**: A BitComet client must have an open port! LAN users must make sure they have an open port (i.e. the status light is green). If you don't have an open port yet and don't know how to open it check [[bitcomet_client_issues_and_possible_solutions# |
- | | + | **Choosing the Long-Time Seeding protocol**: In //Options -> Advanced// you can choose the transport protocol for LT-Seeding, by using this option: // |
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- | For .torrent files which don't contain an LT-hash (i.e. created with other torrent makers), the first BitComet client in the swarm which finishes the download, will calculate the LT-hash and make it available to the other BitComet peers, so that they may search for LT-Seeds for that task at any time later.【Only suitable for BitComet Client】\\ {{: | + | |
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