I am curious if there is any way (included feature or plugin) to instruct KTorrent to try to connect to the physically closest pears.

For example, I have about 10 times faster Internet in my country than outside of it.

It would be great to have the ability to define a preferred list of countries and Ktorrent would prioritize those peers.

There has been another request for this in the past. George might do this for us, or at least i do see the advantage of this.

That's good news, especially that KDE 4.3 got a Geolocation Service so KTorrent could use it.

Lets wait what George wants with this.

We don't need to use KDE's geolocation service, we already have that (how do you think those flags show up in the peer list ?).

Anyway, I think it is best to include this feature into a more generalized peer priority system.

A sort of hierarchical based priority system :
1: LAN and manually added peers
2: Same ISP
3: Same country
4: Same geographical region
5: Everybody else

And then we could connect according to this hierarchy, give each group special speed limits, and adapt the choking algorithm to take into account this hierarchy for uploading.

Oh, i'll happy, when it happens

Any further news on this subject?

George, your classification looks logical, however at the geographical level, let users prioritize specific countries.

So ... Are there any plans to implement this feature? What about a wild guess about when will such a feature be available?

patkoscsaba wrote:So ... Are there any plans to implement this feature? What about a wild guess about when will such a feature be available?

I have other priorities at the moment, don't know when I can do this.