We're using bittorrent to distribute large files on-demand here at our organization. We have one machine setup as a 24/7 seed. At times when there are many requests, obviously things move along pretty quickly. However, when there are only one or two requests - especially with just one, things crawl, and the transfer graphs appear blocked. I assume this is because the client is only requesting one piece, checksumming it, then requesting the next piece, and so on.
Is there any way to speed up these one-to-one transfers, such as a way to tell the client it's okay to request multiple pieces at once from a seed? Or is this just the nature of the beast.
BTW, [most] clients are 1.93 (and a command-line daemon to boot), and the seed is 2.04 GUI. All OSX.