making new torrent..error -> to large.....

[bigwurock]

Originally Posted by U2Lynne

OK, try to set the piece size to 2.0mb for this torrent.

i set it to 2.0mb....now this torrent came out to 83kbs......should be good to go right lynne..??..what is the difference on how many kbs..??..does that have anything to do with the speed of the torrent..??..

[retired]

yes, it should be good, try it again and see what happens.

...and its not kbs...its kb. thats how many kilobytes the torrent file is..not the creation or transfer rate like we're used to with the video/audio codec stats, and has nothing to do with seeding speed

[U2Lynne]

Do you want me to go geeky on you?

The piece size has to do with the bt clients. If you look at your client details, you will see that it deals in pieces. And, every piece is broken up into many smaller blocks which are actually the parts that you grab via bt. But, you don't get credit in your client until you complete a piece (which is a certain amount of blocks).

If you download a show without stopping (or you have a setting set in your client to say write every step of your download), it will make no difference to you. But, if you stop/start constantly, you may lose some of you show because you don't have your client set to write all your 'blocks' even if you don't have the complete piece.

OK, I don't want to get more geeky than that right now, so.... night!

[bigwurock]

thanks.....you people are full of the smarts!...i didn't know that info lynne, very good info to know...thanks again to both of you.. this is a great place to get help...