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How would you get data about what client people that are sharing are using?
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By downloading from them... Phex gives me this information... admittedly there is some issues involved in doing that, because in some cases someone sharing will disconnect and then phex will connect to someone else to download from, so I have to monitor who I am downloading. I will have to try to download a variety of files, from small to big, and diffrent formats and genre as a means of keeping diversity.
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Or what client experienced people are using?
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There is no exact way to do that, but someone who shares will more then likely have more experience and adding downloads counts from each client will grab a more diverse group of clients as oposed to monitoring just shared uploads alone.
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The only way I know of to do this would be tracking who you personaly download from. Sorry but tracking who you download from is what Kirby thought that I was doing, and Kirby was right it is meaningless data.
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How so? People who share make up a certain percentage of the entire network, they dont make up 50% of the network, but they do make up 25 to 10 percent of it. To not include that information is to be 25 to 10 percent off in our statistics.
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But since I am not trying to find old vs. new user or sharing vs. freeloading these don't matter. I am only looking at popular vs. not so popular with the users on the network today.
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That wasnt my point though, my point was that, that does affect our statistics. It does not need to be accounted for, but both users that share and dont share do affect our statistics.
I'm sorry you didnt quite understand this, maybe I worded it to wrong, but still
we are talking about the same thing.