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I may have to reverse the changes here and figure out how to apply it to the transmission torrent client.

I'm on horrible hotel wifi or find myself a late seeder next to massive seed boxes on whatever tracker I'm on. This would give a good bump in the ratio the new guys and even things out if it works in theory.

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You would probably not have a lot of luck using this on private trackers, as Vuze isn't whitelisted on most of them, plus it's a modified version.

I am not sure what you mean by "reverse the changes", but if you want to improve upload contribution for a low-bandwidth node, it is built into BitMate (it improves both download performance and upload contribution of bittorrent). Actually, for low-bandwidth nodes, it could improve upload contribution by as much as 1000%! Please try out the client and let us know what you experience.

By "reversing the changes" I think the OP wants to add this in as a patch for the Transmission, which is a popular open source BitTorrent client.

In fact I'd love to do that as well, given the chance.

EDIT: Just found out that it's open source, details here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitmate/develop

Thank you for your interest. If you want I can upload the code as well to sourceforge. The changes in vuze are very simple and minimal for now.

It'd be a hell of a lot easier for the rest of us to deal with if you upload it to a more collaborative code hosting site instead (GitHub being the prominent example). Even Google Code wouldn't be bad, though; SourceForge is dead and gone.

My friends at sourceforge are going to be really sad to hear this after the last re-hall of the entire site. :-)

Probably a good way to get yourself banned from whatever tracker you run this on. If everyone ran this, download speeds would go down across the board.

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