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    What acutally is a download slot?

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    • ben351500B Offline
      ben351500
      last edited by

      I looked around the Forum for the answer to this question, but didn't see a plain explanation. I'm going to make a donation, and noticed that as part of my thank-you I temporarily get extra download slots.

      What exactly is a download slot? How does it work? Are more better?

      I'm not a technical person, and so thought I ought to ask, as there may be others similarly ignorant about them.

      Thanks!

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        Perfection8
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        I always thought it indicated how many torrent files you are allowed to download per day. I could be wrong though.

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          cannonmc
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          Second try.

          Perfection8 is about right.

          It is the number of simultaneous downloads you can make as well as the total number you can make each day.

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          • ben351500B Offline
            ben351500
            last edited by

            Hmmm. OK I understand that. But I've downloaded more than one torrent at a time. Does everyone get a default number of slots and I've simply never before tried to download more than my allotted number?

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            • MrMazdaM Offline
              MrMazda Global Moderator
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              The number of download slots you get is dependent on a few things, as set out in Rationator. Obviously, making a donation changes the number of slots that you have available. Seeding torrents do not count towards these limits BTW.

              The total number you can download in a day is in theory the total number of .torrent files that the site will give you in a day, excluding your own uploads and torrents you've already completed that you're re-seeding.

              The actual "slots" themselves are counted as the maximum number of simultaneous torrents that are reporting as leeching to the tracker. Once your torrent completes, it switches from "leeching" to "seeding" in the tracker, and thus no longer counts as a download slot.

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              • ben351500B Offline
                ben351500
                last edited by

                OK, got it. You learn something new every day. Thanks mucho, guys!

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