Hate when it happens

Don't worry, some hero without a cape will appear for you and seed that bitch! (wait, that sound better in my head).

Check the files included in the torrent. Sometimes the folders include a little readme or something that people set to not download.

Could be me seeding the entire torrent except the readme file

I've done the math for how long it'd take to randomly guess the last several kilobytes until something checksummed correctly.

I was not pleased with the answer.

What's even worse is when a torrent is stalled at around 94%, there's exactly one seeder with a full copy in the peer list, but he has fucked up networking rules (or an intentionally choked upload because he's a dirty leecher) so that despite having an open connection in the peer list, they never send any data...

Want to be honest here, my real pet peeve is that it shows 100%. Ever. At all. Let alone when it hangs there... That's just insulting.

If it is 100% complete, I should not be waiting for anything. If I were ever developing an operating system I would never allow for 100% to display on a progress bar. 100% means it's done. We advance to the next screen. Do not display it. It makes no sense.

Part of why I moved to usenet.

Everything always downloads at full speed (limited by disc write speed in my case), so if there's missing data you find out about it within a min or two instead of after 3 days of trying.

Usenet also includes parity data so you can rebuild missing data to an extent.

If it's a video, you can probably still watch it

You should get your money back!

Force Recheck.

I have a lot of these just go to 100% after checking the downloaded files.

Yarr you need some wind in yer sails matey

What does the 0.1% of the file contain anyway, if it's a video and most of the data is there it might be either playable or if not it probably might be able to be repairable so it can play, albeit with minor corruption in the damaged part.

BitTorrent has partial seeding. So if someone extends a torrent with some files, the original one can still be used for seeding.

Another reason for the last bit being the slowest is because populars chunks are downloaded first.

What is it? If it’s a video it’s probably fine.

I call them "zombie torrents"

Easy. Next time just download the last percentage first.

i usually find anything past 98% is just done.

CGPeers moment