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Originally Posted by rspencer
In practice, it's not always faster.
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No it might not be faster (in time), but like you said it will seed each block only once (in principal). So in order to upload a torrent of let's say 1GB, you will upload only 1GB of data (may be a little bit more) in order to get the torrent seeded. So if you are worried about the amount of data you upload (when there is a cap for example) you should use this feature.
If you don't use the super-seeding feature the amount of data needed to get the torrent seeded will be (much) more than 1GB. In this case a block can be send to multiple leechers. The speed of super seeding depends on the amount of leechers, their upload speed to other leechers, if a leech is firewalled or not, etc.
This is how I use the super seeding feature. When I start uploading a torrent I am not using the super seeding feature. Only when there are more leechers connecting (10 or so) I set it to super seeding. Besides the super seeding I also use an ip blocker. Leechers who are firewalled and the ones with a lousy ratio I block. They are the ones that bring the overall speed down.
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