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torrents question....
ok, so i am using a torrent for the first time and this seems quite slow IMO.
i am using bitcomet. I am currently dl'ing saw 4 @ 52 kb/s its been 15 min and ive only dl'd 50mb ive got Comcast Cable Internet and hooked up directly to the modem. my laptop has a Pentium Dual Core 2060 (1.6 ghz) running Vista (stripped down to the minimum, ie no widgets or gadgets or whatever the ---- they are called) and 1.5 gb of ram. basically, i think i have a pretty decent PC and internet connection and for some reason, dl'ing just seems slow. what do some of you guru's think? |
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make sure your using a port above 50000 and switch ports once in a while. and for gods sake dont call your isp and whine to them about your torrent problems :S
Oh plus sometimes trackers go down.. Not to mention if your ratio is shitty some users can opt to give you a lower priority download. |
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it also depends on how many seeders they are...the more seeders the faster you can download..
wikki has a good right up about it... |
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ditch everything and go with utorrent ;) grab an older version off of oldversion.com, they seem to be more stable
BTW, sometimes it drops to like 10ish, and the best ive had was 500+. It all depends on your seeders. |
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well, i dropped bitcomet and got bittorrent before i saw the most recent posts.
started off well and then it just ---- the bed. was at over 200 kb/s then dropped to zero and stalled. so i stopped and rebooted my pc, and i have been hanging out at 40-90ish kb/s now with ~15 seeds how many seeds are considered good? for utorrent, what version would be best? uTorrent 1.1.1 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.1.3 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.1.4 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.1.5 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.1.6 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.1.7 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.2 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.2.1 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.2.2 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.3 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.4 (0.1 MB) uTorrent 1.5 (0.2 MB) uTorrent 1.6 (0.6 MB) |
Re: torrents question....
Originally Posted by imburne
make sure your using a port above 50000 and switch ports once in a while. and for gods sake dont call your isp and whine to them about your torrent problems :S
Oh plus sometimes trackers go down.. Not to mention if your ratio is shitty some users can opt to give you a lower priority download. as for calling my ISP, ahahahaha, im not some stupid ----, i know better than that. :1 |
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could someone share some uncontrollable knowledgeabilities with me on torrents? is it a p2p network or something? i understand its to download at least programs and movies from just reading about them on here and google but since i only have the net on my phone i cant download it or try it.
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im no expert, but its just another way of file sharing.
i dont think its a "p2p" so to speak, just the next level. i would wiki it to get more info |
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Mime-type: application/x-bittorrent .torrent files are basically BitTorrent's equivalent to ed2k links used in eDonkey network. In essence, .torrent files include instructions for BitTorrent -compatible P2P clients where to find the "tracker" for the downloaded file, hashed checksum that verifies for the client that it is actually downloading the correct file, the full size of the file and the filename of the file. So, essentially .torrent files are very, very small files that simply contain some textual data about the file itself. Thus, downloading the torrent file itself takes only matter of seconds, if not milliseconds, but it is not the file that is downloaded from the P2P network. Instead, .torrent files are typically hosted on just standard web servers and can be even passed via email. But in a computer with a BitTorrent -compatible client installed in it, launching a .torrent file typically starts a process where the BitTorrent -compatible client first contacts the tracker described in the .torrent file and if the tracker server is found and "seeds" (people sharing the file in question) are available, launches a download process of the file described in the .torrent file.
from http://www.file-extensions.org/torrent-file-extension |
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ok, so its dl'ing at an average of 135kb/s right now, so thats better.
is it normal for it to take 2 hours to dl a 600 mb file? i am using http://thepiratebay.org/ to find the torrents. is there others that may be more popular that may have more seeds? |
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so its kinda like a glorified search function? and it runs off of p2p networks? what programs are torrent capable? like as in bearshare or kazaa?
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Originally Posted by RotaryGeek
so its kinda like a glorified search function? and it runs off of p2p networks? what programs are torrent capable? like as in bearshare or kazaa?
i dont think bearshare or kazaa is anything like this. check out wiki for more info.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrents |
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danit i cant click links on my phone. starting to hate the blackjacks internet. ill check when i get home tomorrow i guess.
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You're using Comcast as your ISP?
Good luck with that ----, they've been aggressively attacking p2p stuff.... bittorrent is one of their huge targets.. and they're doing all sorts of shady ---- to keep that traffic off their network. :) |
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Originally Posted by stevenb
You're using Comcast as your ISP?
Good luck with that ----, they've been aggressively attacking p2p stuff.... bittorrent is one of their huge targets.. and they're doing all sorts of shady ---- to keep that traffic off their network. :) solution (has worked so fa) to download peerguardian and set up a "torrent list" the exact IP; can be found online. Set your upload as low as posible or disable it all together(yes u will be a leecher) and that should make u pretty safe. |
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Comcast just prevented seeding. You could leech all you want. And anyway:
Just a fortnight after the AP called Comcast out for tampering with some users' ability to swap files over P2P networks, a coalition has formally asked the FCC to stop the operator from interfering with such activity. The petition reportedly asks the Commission to "immediately declare that Comcast is violating the FCC's policy," and it's being supported by the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Media Access Project and professors at the internet practices of the Yale, Harvard and Stanford law schools (among others). Separately, Free Press and Public Knowledge are filing a complaint that asks the FCC to demand a "forfeiture from Comcast of $195,000 per affected subscriber." It's also said that this will be the "first real test of the FCC's stance on Net Neutrality," but there's no telling how long the Commission will wait before acting on the filings. |
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Originally Posted by Jorsher
Comcast just prevented seeding. You could leech all you want. And anyway:
Glad I don't use comcast anyway. And Cox here isn't doing ----... I run utorrent 24/7. |
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i got comcast/// download 24 7 never missed a beat// too bad my bill is almost 75 a month
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i have already limited my upload to 15 kb/s
and yes, i know that puts me in the book as a "leecher", however, I am covering my ass. as for blocking, utorrent has an auto ip block in it (according to there setup page anyway). i am running Vista so I have yet to read anything that says peer guardian works for Vista can anyone confirm that peer guardian works with vista? |
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Limiting your upload that low on a good connection isn't a good idea. Like they said before, if you have a shitty up/down ratio then you'll get lower download speeds.
Also, torrenting isn't an overnight deal. Sometimes you have to wait weeks, months or more to download some files. It takes about half a day to a day for me to download a popular movie ~800mb-1gb, and it took me a whole month to get all 20 episodes of Stargate SG-1 season 10. I've got Comcast too, and my downloads range from <1kb/s up to 300+kb/s. It does all depend on the seeders. |
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http://portforward.com/
For setting up the router and stuff..... It's important that you get a static-IP and open up the port in your router [virtual server]. Utorrent is fine,doesn't use a lot of memory. www.torrentleech.org www.-----torrents.org Try signing in there or get an invite ;) |
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Originally Posted by Secondaries
Limiting your upload that low on a good connection isn't a good idea. Like they said before, if you have a shitty up/down ratio then you'll get lower download speeds.
Also, torrenting isn't an overnight deal. Sometimes you have to wait weeks, months or more to download some files. It takes about half a day to a day for me to download a popular movie ~800mb-1gb, and it took me a whole month to get all 20 episodes of Stargate SG-1 season 10. I've got Comcast too, and my downloads range from <1kb/s up to 300+kb/s. It does all depend on the seeders. sorry to tell ya but i dl'd 18 full length movies yesterday/last night that I KEPT. there were about 5 that were just horrible quality that i trashed. and during the whole dl'ing process i was burning them to dvd. so my laptop stayed at 75% load all day yesterday and uTorrent gave me a max speed of 1315kb/s, with an average of 650 kb/s. (I have a Pent Dual Core 2060 1.6ghz running Vista Home w/ 1.5 gig of RAM and another 2 gig stick running "Ready Boost" and a 160 gig HD). Needless to say, I dont have some slow ass computer. no movie took over a hour to download and i would have 3-5 dl'ing at the same time. most of the movies had at least 40+ seeders i am using www.mininova.com and so far my favorite poster is aXXo. So far I have gotten... American Gangster Grindhouse Death Proof Grindhouse Planet Terror Pirates of the Caribbean - At Worlds End The Bourne Ultimatum Transformers Spiderman 3 Rounders The Pursuit of Happiness Hannibal Rising Knocked Up Oceans 13 We Are Marshall Blades of Glory Fantastic 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer Return to the House on Haunted Hill Saw 4 30 Days of Night |
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you know that you can watch all them movies without downloading ----,
check out these sites... http://www.movieforumz.com/ http://www.watch-movies.net/ |
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Comcast, huh? Get ready for hassles with .torrents.
Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
ditch everything and go with utorrent ;) grab an older version off of oldversion.com, they seem to be more stable
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Originally Posted by hondarex2323
you know that you can watch all them movies without downloading ----,
check out these sites... http://www.movieforumz.com/ http://www.watch-movies.net/ watch the movies on a 15.4 in laptop or 17" PC, OR a 53" Sony Big Screen i think i will dl them and burn them and watch them on the big tv. plus, i am dl'ing some kids stuff for my daughter so i would rather her mess with the dvd player and tv rather than my computers.
Originally Posted by Joseph Davis
Comcast, huh? Get ready for hassles with .torrents.
The newest version is 100% stable. i am using the newest uTorrent (which looks and acts exactly like BitTorrent FYI). come to think of it, BitTorrent bought uTorrent and molded the two together. |
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Originally Posted by jo_gobel
lets see....
watch the movies on a 15.4 in laptop or 17" PC, OR a 53" Sony Big Screen i think i will dl them and burn them and watch them on the big tv. plus, i am dl'ing some kids stuff for my daughter so i would rather her mess with the dvd player and tv rather than my computers. no problems yet. what should I be expecting as a hassle? i am using the newest uTorrent (which looks and acts exactly like BitTorrent FYI). come to think of it, BitTorrent bought uTorrent and molded the two together. I have connected the pc to my Tv.....So no more burning discs. |
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dont get me wrong, i can hookup up the laptop via the S video connection.
I just prefer the DVD method myself. because with my daughter, she is 1 and she just LOVES to play with any cord around. having another cord going to the tv is most likely not a good thing if i want to keep the laptop on top of the table in one piece. plus, when i have to watch a movie with my wife that i really dont care for, i can still get on the internet with out ------- ---- up on the TV. so your way is fine for you, my why is fine for me. leave it at that by the way noob, your porn post was weak. if i wanted to look at hamburger i would have went to the grocery story. |
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