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The torrent is supposed to be 100MB. How come I downloaded 120MB?

April 26, 2017downloaded torrent

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The torrent is supposed to be 100MB. How come I downloaded 120MB?

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If your client receives bad data it will have to redownload it, therefore the total downloaded may be larger than the torrent size. Make sure the “kick/ban” option is turned on to minimize the extra downloads.

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See the hash fails topic. If your client receives bad data it will have to redownload it, therefore the total downloaded may be larger than the torrent size. Make sure the “kick/ban” option is turned on to minimize the extra downloads.