nodejs download slowly

[hualiwang]

To my experience , browser mode is faster more then nodejs mode.

I try to run commandline "node cmd.js seed sintel.torrent ", the torrent downloaded from https://webtorrent.io/torrents/sintel.torrent

It just found up to 3 peers , with speed 70kb/s , after 5 minutes , two peers disappeared , and time remaining: Infinity years remaining
but I can recover speed by restart the commandline.

so I open http://webtorrent.io in chrome and watch the same movie , I can found over 5 peers and 20 minutes remaining.

what the different between node and browser ? Is that because of webrtc ?
If some peers has low download speed ,can I change it to other one?

[DiegoRBaquero]

On the browser it's only webrtc peers, on node, it's TCP/uTP peers only. The 3 peers are different from the 5 peers. Sintel is also webseeded but webseed broke in last 2 builds. Pending PR in bittorrent-swarm to fix this.

If you want to use webrtc from CLI, you can use webtorrent-hybrid (Although I would recommend using electron-spawn) See webtorrent/webtorrent-hybrid#5

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