Fiber Optic Cables and BitTorrent

No matter how fast or powerful your computer is, its transfer rate is only as fast as the fiber optic cables allow. If you are building up a new computer, or upgrading your new computer with improved hardware, with the hopes that it will download faster, you might be sadly disappointed. You need to upgrade your connection.

Always remember, when using a file-sharing program and downloading peer-to-peer, the other persons connection speed affects both his and your transfer rate. Choosing peers that have a good connection will ultimately benefit you. Of course, if your connection is terrible, you will always have your limits (56k modem).

When using a program such as BitTorrent, remember that the more seeders you have, the better. Seeders are the people sharing the file while leechers (yourself) are people leeching onto a file, sucking it onto their computer. Once your file is completed and you have the file at 100%, you are then a seeder. This will explain why certain older files won't download; no one is seeding and everybody is trying to leech, but there is nothing to leech onto.