Re: [Mldonkey-users] default options

[Mike Jones]

Yes, but is this the best way to set as default?

If people want preview, a separate option to download
first and last chunks first should be set.

But after that, why is sequential the best?  If there
is a new release, and a bunch of mldonkeys start 
sequentially downloading it, they don't really share
amongst themselves and their upload slots are not
used maximally since they all get the same chunks and don't help spread as much 
as they could.

-----Original Message-----
From: MLdonkey <address@hidden>
To: "Mike Jones" <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:30:24 +0100
Subject: Re: [Mldonkey-users] default options


>  Is sequential really the best way to download?

Sequential allow you to preview the file and detect if it is a fake...

>  Ideally wouldn't it be best to download the most rare
>  chunks first (after first and last I guess)?

Even in sequential mode, mldonkey ALWAYS downloads rare chunks
first. Only when all the chunks have several sources are the chunks
downloaded in sequential order.

- MLDonkey