Being snubbed using Bittornado

***CENSORED*** · December 4th, 2004, 02:05 PM

I was getting low DL speeds so I looked at Advanced and I was getting snubbed by alot of users. Will getting a new BT client solve this or if not what will?

**Mels_Smileys45** · December 4th, 2004, 02:27 PM

Its probably not the client, but your own share habits. Have you not been getting your ratio up?

Sometimes disconnecting from the tracker and reconnecting will unsnub you.

**Betamax** · December 4th, 2004, 03:35 PM

From http://www.vladd44.com/bittorrent-terms.htm :

"snubbed

If the client has not received anything after a certain period (default: 60 seconds), it marks a connection as snubbed, in that the peer on the other end has chosen not to send. See the definition of choked for reasons why an uploader might mark a connection as choked. The real function of keeping track of this variable is to improve download speeds. Occasionally the client will find itself in a state where even though it is connected to many peers, it is choked by all of them. The client uses the snubbed flag in an attempt to prevent this situation. It notes that a peer with whom it would like to trade pieces with has not sent anything in a while, and rather than leaving it up to the optimistic choking to eventuall select that peer, it instead reserves one of its upload slots for sending to that peer.

choked

When a connection is choked, it means that the transmitter isn't currently sending anything else on the link. A BT client signals that it's choked to other clients for a number of reasons, the most common is that by default a client will only maintain --max_uploads active simultaneous uploads, the rest will be marked choked. A connection can also be choked for other reasons, for example a peer downloading from a seed will mark his connection as choked since the seed has no need to receive."

***CENSORED*** · December 4th, 2004, 07:23 PM

Can someone tell me what that means?

**Mels_Smileys45** · December 4th, 2004, 07:29 PM

If you do not upload anything to anyone within a lenght of time, you are snubbed in favor of someone who is uploading or when a seeder reaches their max connections the rest of the people will be shown as snubbed.