[Feature Request]Mark Seeding as Downloading
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:29 pm
I know that Concast is sandvining torrents, and Deluge has been one of the few softwares able to still upload (although significantly less). Although I'm not a programmer, so I don't know the feasibility of doing this, but would it be possible to add a option to mark all torrents "completed" and seeding as downloading? It would save the time of copying+pasting, then deleting the copy where deluge looks for in order to seed as when your "downloading" a torrent. That is since comcast sandvine decides to not bar you from uploading (as much) when it thinks your still downloading the torrent (ex when your copy isn't complete). I would think it would be easier to implement than some sort of enhanced security feature on trackers and such to simply have the option to continue "downloading" since it would only be on the torrent manager side
I guess from a technical side, It wouldn't actually be downloading, rather deluge notes it is complete, but treats it when its sending data as incomplete (so lying basically) and randomly requests some peice from others that the user already has, and discards the data (requesting less often than uploading, so it pays off). It would sort of mess up share ratios and things, but wouldn't the ability to at least be able to upload with a few minor bits of data discarded be better than not being able to upload at all?
I guess from a technical side, It wouldn't actually be downloading, rather deluge notes it is complete, but treats it when its sending data as incomplete (so lying basically) and randomly requests some peice from others that the user already has, and discards the data (requesting less often than uploading, so it pays off). It would sort of mess up share ratios and things, but wouldn't the ability to at least be able to upload with a few minor bits of data discarded be better than not being able to upload at all?