Monday, May 19, 2008

Why is the percentage completed on my Bittorrent download going backwards?

I'm downloading something on Bittorrent. It said it was 65.2% complete. Then I looked at it later and it said it was 65.1% complete. WTF? I noticed that throughput was a bit slow and the status bar was saying "Online, maybe firewalled" instead of "Online, ports open" so I restarted the program. Then it was 64.8% complete. So I thought maybe I lost something when I closed the program so I let it go for a while. Then later it was 64.9% complete. But then later still it was 64.8% complete.

WTF? Help?

(I know, maybe I should be using another client, but I want to finish downloading this huge-ass torrent first.)

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