Talk:Super-seeding

message: Why should we have a list of supported clients here? That means we have to sync with Comparison of BitTorrent clients all the time. And it's pretty much redundant with it. IMO a link to the comparison would be better. --logixoul 19:48, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree in concept, but the comparison list should be mentioned and linked from this article, and I'm not seeing it. D. F. Schmidt (talk) 00:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supported clients removal 

message: It states in the article that reasons other than minimizing costs, for super-seeding are not so clear.
From own experience I know that; one might have an old hard disk drive or one of inferior quality. Putting heavy workloads, which normal seeding can if the seed has enough bandwidth at its disposal, may cause slowing down of the computer performance in general.
It can also depend on the ammount of bandwidth the seed has got. If too much bandwidth is consumed, high latencies from the seed to internet may occur.
I have no cited sources for this, but I consider myself competent enough in the area of computers, to dare state this.
And I hope this is relevant enough, this is the first time I try to contribute to wikipedia.
ZyaX 22:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More benefits of super-seeding 

message: There's a list of clients accused of abusing superseeding. What good is this without a description of what is meant by "abuse"? 68.124.137.182 15:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: E.g. BitComet (and BitLord? since it's based on BitComet) exploit superseeding by connecting and disconnecting as soon as they have got a piece from the superseeding client. This results the client sending pieces to them every time they connect and since they disconnect and connect as soon as getting a single piece they exploit it so that the superseeding client is sending them pieces all the time. This is the reason why BitComet and BitLord is often banned by trackers and peers. This is important info so it should be mentioned here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.145.205.227 (talk) 11:46, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Abuse of superseeding"? 

message: "This feature should only be used when there is less than one peer."
Doesn't this sentence need corrected? Shouldn't it be in the case of only 1 seed(as all of the documentation on the feature suggests, like here), rather than less than 1 peer(which seems nonsensical)? Smeggysmeg 02:43, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted the edit that changed that sentence. µTorrent FAQ states that super seeding is effective when the user is the only seed and there is at least two peers (more than one) in the swarm --Mindeye 04:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence correction 

message: The last section on weaknesses inherent to the bittorrent protocol seems rather out of place. Perhaps it should be removed or integrated into a different bittorent article. 76.208.20.131 21:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; it's completely uncited and doesn't have enough context to link it to the subject of the article.  I'm deleting the section. jhf (talk) 23:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fatal protocol weakness? 

message: Currently this article isn't very good.
E.g. Clients exploiting superseeding whould probably be added. E.g. BitComet and maybe BitLord since it's based on bitcomet do this.
And more information about superseeding can be found on the webpage of the creator of superseeding: http://www.bittornado.com/ (BitTornado is a BTclient by him)
and http://www.bittornado.com/docs/superseed.txt  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.145.205.227 (talk) 11:51, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making this article better 

message: Does the SS feature prevent torrents from having incomplete availability because the peers all loaded the same chunks? If so this is important enough to mention.
If there is one seed and that seed uploads the torrent twice, but there are three peers then the peers might all have the same 2/3 of the torrent and no one gets done. Or there are seeds/peers that do not seed to 1-ratio uploading the same chunks, in this case the torrent might loose full availability. --77.1.144.72 (talk) 09:39, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avoiding seedlessness 

message: If there is a reason to have this distinct article, then the section of Glossary of BitTorrent terms should have a link to this article using the  template. Otherwise, the two should be merged. Since this appears to be peculiar to BitTorrent and perhaps of no interest at all outside this scope, I feel that this separate article (which reads as very sloppy and unclear in its delivery and perhaps unencyclopedic to begin with) should be done away with. D. F. Schmidt (talk) 00:24, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose overlap with [[Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms#Super-seeding]]