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Blank
12-05-2005, 10:58 AM
Why do some downloads get counted multiple times? Case in point: the Dragon Quest Suite. Completed 142 times? If one looks at the list, more than a hundred of those completions are by "freakmister."

How come, I assume this occurs when he seeds, the tracker thinks he downloaded the entire thing again? Is this a side effect of having a sucky copy of BitTorrent, or having a dynamic IP address..?

Just curious, as Locke and some others seem to know oodles about the wonders of the Bit Torrent sharing schema.

Locke Cole
12-05-2005, 12:26 PM
Ah, this bug happens usually due to an unpopular/poor bit torrent client on the user end. The client is continously reporting itself as finished downloading, when it should only do this once. I have been working on a code fix to prevent a client from reporting itself more then once, but it is still in development. :)