uSerenity settings with description

[Owyn]

does having more than 1 announce URL in a torrent file help the tracker protect from multiplier/fakeupload cheating?

well it complicates the job for it but uSerenity was made to support torrents with multiple trackers in it correctly.

[DukeTT]

Great thanks.

One last question, just in case I get a BSOD again while running Serenity, what should I do if I don't want the program to send any upload data to the tracker at all? (just to be safe) Is there any file I can delete or whatever?

[Owyn]

Great thanks.

One last question, just in case I get a BSOD again while running Serenity, what should I do if I don't want the program to send any upload data to the tracker at all? (just to be safe) Is there any file I can delete or whatever?

well, you could:
- edit label in Settings Manager before opening uSerenity not to have upload multiplier it would upload unmultiplied (may be less than last time reported - but admins usually don't check this suspicios situation)

- turn off the internet and the open uSerenity and stop all torrents then close it, turn on the internet and open uSerenity (not sure, it still may send everything due to its failure-proof system, need checking)

- edit your hosts file to associate tracker address to your local ip 127.0.0.1 and start up a local tracker server so uSerenity would get answer from it and think everything is reported ok lol.

[douche99]

So I read the previous 13 pages and couldn't figure the answer for my question ...

How are the partitial seeders handled ?

Because I got a set up with the requirement that 2 peers must be connected to start faking up ... and I am connected to 8 peers, but all are partitial seeders or have 0% done.
So it is not uploading ... ?!

But with the same label, on the same tracker I have another torrent, where actual leechers are connected an look at that, i am fake uploading !!!

So I was wondering if it was just a bug or actual distinguishs the peers between partitial seeders and leechers (which would be incredible and awesome)


edit: Oh and the situation takes place when actively downloading and with no other options checked but fake up.

[Owyn]

douche99, uSerenity just reads "number of connected pears" from uTorrent memory itself, question is how _uTorrent_ consider those partial seeders

I am connected to 8 peers, but all are partitial seeders or have 0% done.
So it is not uploading

earlier an opinion was told that only peers currently in transfer with you considered currently connected.

you may want to test this qustion and see yourself

[_SoulCrusheR]

earlier an opinion was told that only peers currently in transfer with you considered currently connected.

But will it be any soon?

[Owyn]

But will it be any soon?

who ?

[olabird]

read somewhere (probably in Mihai's post) that you can only fake on 20 torrents. is this true? if yes, I am curious to know the reason.

[The Shutter]

no you can cheat on any number of torrents

[anon]

That limit is looooong gone.

[douche99]

Well, seems in fact that the peers are categorized in active downloading peers and partitial seeders. Because when I snatched the file, and was downloading from the partitial seeders ... therefor was fully connected, it did no fake upload.
But just seeding or downloading while fully connected to a downloading peer, it faked upload...

This makes things way easier and save

Oh and the downloading peers did not download from me ... they did from someone else but the average download rate was probably send, leting the program know its a legit peer.

[olabird]

@douche99 are you sure about the categorization between active downloaders and partial seeders? because I thought that anyone who appeared the in "peers" tab of uTorrent was a peer according to uSerenity. And those who have 100% (seeders or partial seeders) also appear in that list.

[Owyn]

so new release is ready (2.2.1 uT) and when Anon comes online he'd update the release thread ( i hope he would ^_^ )

- now debug version won't crash and now it buffers output to the log and writes it after any tracker update occurs
- free safe changing of all labels on the fly:
if you switch from multi to non-multi - it would keep uploaded value safe but won't multiply amount of uploaded after last tracker update
if you switch from fakeupload with not adding real upload option enabled - it would remove amount of real uploaded from the last tracker update at that moment
if fakeupload task isn't active and you switch to fake label while torrent is active you'd have to wait for the 1st tracker update for fakeupload to start working (if any faking is active atm - it is instant)
if you start multi\fake after your comp crashed with a BSOD or anything and your starting uploaded value is not null - it would consider it and add safely without actions on it.

and of course all new things support multi-tracker torrents

feel free to test ^_^ *I did and all was ok atm*

[anon]

so new release is ready (2.2.1 uT) and when Anon comes online he'd update the release thread ( i hope he would ^_^ )

I just did - please redownload the archive from the Serenity thread, everyone.

[bjs]

-FakeUpload:

Every second after .torrent start random number in the range you choose is added to uploaded stat which will be sent to tracker depend less upload you or not, you can specify minimal amount of peers to be connected to in order to add fake upload

I am afraid if this is what has been implemented, you would end up with a rather constant figure on each announce - the mean of the range. To me the correct method is to generate one random number only for each announce (not one every second). Have I missed anything there?