You can also stop seeding completely after the swarm reaches "2.0" if you so desire - that is, if you have more important things to upload. For example, joe has 1, 3, 5, john has 1, 2, 4, and jane has 1, 3, and 4 - piece 1 was repeated 3 times, 3 was repeated twice, and while nobody has the whole file yet, the whole file is available to everyone after they exchange a few pieces. meaning more than one person has a copy of every piece. The only time you'll ever see "2.0" or higher as a seeder is when you see more than one distributed copy across all the peers. because those people will automatically become seeds and disconnect from you. When it finally gets to "1.999", you'll probably never see 2.0 for long. So if it says "1.459", that means the overall swarm has 45.9% of the torrent. As long as you are seeding, it will be above 1.0, but between 1.0 and 2.0 is where the overall swarm does not have one full copy of the file. The "Availability" bar/number is the "swarm percentage" indicator. After the torrent is sent out to everyone at least once, initial-seeding is no longer necessary, since seeders and peers will come and go here and there, and it basically maintains itself without your help (as opposed to the beginning, when you are the only person on the internet with that data). The biggest flood comes right when you initially upload a torrent, so you have to manage these peers. It makes sense to super-seed (initial seed) large torrents more so than to do small torrents, because the small torrents will "evolve" much quicker into normal swarms than would a large torrent with lots of data and lots of on-and-off peers trying to get it. You still remain a normal seeder, but you do a better job of organizing how data is sent out, under the knowledge that you are the only person providing data to people, and that the person you send data to will in turn send it to everyone else as well. using "initial seeding" mode does not make your upload faster or slower, but what it does do is organize the typically-chaotic "pattern" of normal seeding. I'd actually disagree completely with what Dark Shroud said.
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