# Availability of Torrents Explained ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** tips-tricks\ **Created:** [August 2, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/availability-of-torrents-explained/99136 "2020-08-02T06:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DevilDuck](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/devilduck/32/29698_2.png) [@DevilDuck](https://onehack.st/u/DevilDuck)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/availability-of-torrents-explained/99136/1 "2020-08-02T06:36:09Z")
# Availability ### What does the Availability number tell you?[[edit](https://wiki.vuze.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Availability&action=edit§ion=1)] **Availability** is a per-torrent score like 0.640 or 37.989. The major number of the _Availability_ tells you how many copies of **the least available piece** of the torrent you currently see. If the availability is 1 or more, you see all of the pieces of the file(s). If it is 0, you do not see the whole file(s). The decimals are most useful when the Availability is below 1. Lets say availability is 0.652, that means you’re only seeing 65.2% of the file. - Availability reflects **your**** current** view to the torrent. It changes constantly based on the seeds & peers you are connected to. Availability has a direct impact on download speed too. If you are downloading a torrent with good availability, the speed is usually much higher than in a torrent with only one source (as that the upload speed of that source will then limit the whole swarm’s download speed). You can also see in the example image that speeds of individual torrents can vary a lot. **You can (and should) easily enable the _Availability_ column:** just go to _Library_ tab in Vuze (or the _My Torrents_ tab in Azureus), right-click on the header row where the downloading torrents are queued and choose [_Column Setup_](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Column_setup). _Enable_ the _Availability_ column there and hit _OK_ . Doing this will give you a new column where you can easily spot the _Availability_ of the torrent. This is calculated based on the pieces available from [seeds](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed) and [peers](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Peer), that you’re connected to. Another option to see the _Availability_ is to open the [torrent details](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/UG_Advanced_Information#General_tab) via _right-click \> Show Details_ or doublecklicking on the torrent in the _My Torrents_ view. The _Availability_ is displayed there as a graphic bar and the Availability number itself on the right end of the bar. Availability shown in the Library view: [![Vuze42Availability.png](https://wiki.vuze.com/mediawiki/images/4/4d/Vuze42Availability.png)](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/File:Vuze42Availability.png) Examples: - **0.000** means that the [Tracker](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Tracker) is offline or doesn’t track this torrent anymore and [DHT](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Distributed_hash_table) can’t help either or there simply are no [seeds](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed) left (old torrent). - **0.249** means there are only parts of the torrent available (in this case 24.9%). Try to wait for [seeds](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed), you might have to wait a day or so. Or it is very new and in [Superseeding](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Superseeding) mode - **0.640** and all other peers stuck at nearly the same percentage (~64.0% in that case) means the torrent is either stuck because it lacks a seed or there is a very slow seed you’re currently not connected to. Be patient, that torrent might finish, very slowly. - **0.999** (or something below 1 near that) means there is **almost** 100% of the torrent available. This could be a anti-[leech](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Leech)-protection, meaning you just have to wait a few hours or days for it to get 100% of it. If you are already trying to get it for 2 weeks or so read the [Torrents stop at 99 percent](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Torrents_stop_at_99_percent) page. - **1.000** means that there is currently 100% of the torrent available. You are only able to download this torrent when the [seed](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed) won’t go offline before you got all of it. - **1.539** _and_ many peers stuck at ~53.9% (check the torrent details) means the swarm is either a [bad torrent](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_torrent) or the only [seed](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed) is very slow and everybody is waiting for new data from him, thus you’ll reach 53.9% very fast but the remaining 46.1% will take quite some time (could be hours or days) while the original uploader slowly uploads it to peers. - **3.357** means there are some [seeds](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed) and [peers](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Peer) available and as you see at least 3 copies of each piece, you should be able to download the complete torrent, even if a seed stops seeding. - **37.989** means that you are downloading a torrent with a big [swarm](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Swarm). You see at least 37 copies of all data. If the [Average Swarm Speed](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Average_Swarm_Speed) is not too low you should be able to download it rather fast (partly depending on your upload too). ### Important things to note[[edit](https://wiki.vuze.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Availability&action=edit§ion=2)] Note that a good (high) Availability does _not_ necessarily mean that it’s a [good torrent](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Good_torrents) (and also read about [Bad torrents](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_torrents)). Another important thing is that seeds are NOT necessary to finish a download since peers can have data to share too, only an Availability above 1 (not counting cases with superseeds). That Availability \> 1.0 condition can be also reached with several peers having different pieces of data, so that combined they have all the pieces. It’s perfectly normal not to connect to all [seeds](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Seed) and [peers](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/This_funny_word#Peer) in a swarm - more important is a good [Average Swarm Speed](https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Average_Swarm_Speed). Source: [wiki.vuze.com/](http://wiki.vuze.com/) ---
**Author:** ![fd2013](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/fd2013/32/85616_2.png) [@fd2013](https://onehack.st/u/fd2013)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/availability-of-torrents-explained/99136/2 "2020-08-02T14:25:34Z")
Thank you for teaching us 👍