You big sharers are my gods! I'm sharing my puny 10 gigs at the moment and adding another 30 gig drive for my small contribution...and up' more than I down'. But tell me this doesn't burn your ***:
The machine can be on 24/7 with say 20 requests; for a full day, I'm lucky at times to get 2-3 partial d/l's---naturally though, it's upping constantly. So it can take weeks (even with DSL) to down' a large rare file. Add to that the following scenario: I'm lucky enough to connect to a 850MB file---one instance available only; I manage to get 50%-425MB then the user decides not to share the file for 7-10 days for whatever reason. During that time I share that partial with 10 other users, before my original guy comes back on. So now 10 others having the same 425MB, are competing with me to complete the D/L. Too bad, 'cause if I could have completed mine, we'd have 2 complete instances of the file to share not to mention the fact that when it's a popular file I'll copy it and share it from another machine...Anyway, this is a rant forum, right?