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How would your client know what other clients have uploaded to other clients?
by hrbf 4y ago
How would your client know what other clients have uploaded to other clients?
- capableweb 4y agoObviously you wouldn't (the network is decentralized, you can't know other peers communication) but also you don't care (peer A <> B might be able to upload/download, but peer B <> C can only download in one direction). The important part is to keep track of what's happening with your own connection to others, not what other peers are doing.
- wang_li 4y ago> The important part is to keep track of what's happening with your own connection to others, not what other peers are doing. 99%+ of the time any pair of peers has unidirectional traffic. The situation where two clients will have incomplete torrents and are exchanging data with each other is rare, like the first few hours after a brand new torrent hits the network.