Bit Torrent

[Hellgate]

Am I a retard or what? On second thought never mind...

WTF with Bit Torrent??? Is it typical that once you find a file to download, MotoGP races in this case, that the download doesn't start, or it will take 13 hours to download 1GB? I'm not expecting lightening but I wold like to watch a race tonight.

What the heck am I missing???

 

[sxty8goats]

Depends on a lot. what program are you using? On Utorrent you get at indicator at the botom to show your connection status. If it isn't green you will not get a good connection to the swarms. Typically your down load rates will be down @ 11.kps or so.

Or you may be on a torrent that only has a couple people seeding/leaching. The more people on the torrent, the faster it runs. The S/L numbers represent the seeders and leechers. A seeder is just uploading, a leacher is downloading but also uploading at a slower rate.

Look through the options to see if there is a 'test connection' test and run that. Also look for torrents with multiple seeders.

 

[Denver_FZ6]

Many torrent applications allow you to limit the download (and upload) rate, so might check to see if your torrent app is throttling it, althought I think the default is to run wide open.
For me, poor performance is typically due to limited peers as previously mentioned.
And last, I will occasionally attempt to download a torrent, only to find the peer requires sign-up or password or something. Even in these cases, I've found that I may eventually get the file, but it takes days due to very low xfer rate.

 

[mackbolan]

and if you are running through a router you want to make sure you have the ports fowarded correctly hence the connection status. it will cause a big drop in speed. 11k mabe if you are on dsl. more for faster connections. and you do want to throttle your upload speed. if you are uploading to fast it will limit how fast you can recieve and acknowledge the incomming packets.
if it's a good site post and we may want some of it too

 

[shuckle]

You'll want to look at the number of Seeds and Leechers of what you are downloading. In uTorrent, you'll see the numbers in brackets with the number you are connected in front. for example: 5(100) where 5 is how many you are connected to and 100 is how many are available.

If it's a low number of seeds or leechers you will find it is slow. most of the time the people seeding and leeching are also on something like DSL or Cable. Typically, DSL and Cable have pretty fast downloads but slow uploads. So, if their upload is only 1.5Kb/s and you have 5 connections -- you're maxed out at 7.5KB/s.

The tips above by others, regarding port forwarding etc. are excellent and worth checking out as well.

There's a few tips on uTorrent's website

HTH

 

[tweak89]

Hey! Using torrents is wrong! :spank:

I'll get back to this topic after I finish watching Zombieland and Up on my home theater.

Another tip. Use isohunt or piratebay. They display comments with their torrent listings that really help weed out fakes and bad copies of whatever you might be looking for.

 

[Hellgate]

Hey! Using torrents is wrong! :spank:

I'll get back to this topic after I finish watching Zombieland and Up on my home theater.

Another tip. Use isohunt or piratebay. They display comments with their torrent listings that really help weed out fakes and bad copies of whatever you might be looking for.

Thanks for the tip. I've found more often than not sites want my email, etc. Its seems I waste a lot if time trying to find a good place to download.

I will admit I've only been using it for a few weeks and don't have a good feel for the process yet.

 

[madmanmaigret]

Pete, i second Tweak's suggestion on Piratebay.org find the most peers

I would never use torrents.............

 

[Wavex]

hmmm yall know this is totally illegal and shouldn't be discussed on a public forum right?

 

[YamahaMAXdRPMs]

not all torrents are illegal, just copywritten ones... hehe...

and i ONLY download torrents legally!!

and the way i do it is through Mini Nova, once i find the torrent i want to download, i click to sort the seeders so that i get the most amount of seeds... yeah... legal'ness is sweeeeeeeeet

 

[Wavex]

What do you download from torrents that's legal?

Pete is talking about downloading pirated copyrighted MotoGP races, which is obviously illegal.

 

[Hellgate]

What do you download from torrents that's legal?

Pete is talking about downloading pirated copyrighted MotoGP races, which is obviously illegal.

Obviously....

Well if there was a way to pay a reasonable cost I might do that, say $5.00 to watch a race live. I don't want to pay for cable TV just to see a few races.

 

[Jez]

What do you download from torrents that's legal?

Pete is talking about downloading pirated copyrighted MotoGP races, which is obviously illegal.

Radio shows? I don't know if it's legal, and nor do I particularly care, if I'm honest. I can see the issue with downloading somebody's album, or a movie - although I think that's mitigated, at least morally, if you then go out and buy it - but when I download an internet radio show it's no different to sticking a cassette in the machine to record a song, just like the good old days. Although I believe that was technically illegal as well.

Of course, the British Government has recently announced that it intends to lose the next election even more spectacularly than previously intended by somehow legislating a ban on filesharing by cutting people off, or at least sending out warning letters, presumably addressed to 'the dodgy looking guy with the laptop hanging around the coffee shop'. But never mind, eh? There's always encryption.

Lord Mandelson sets date for blocking filesharers' internet connections | Technology | guardian.co.uk

 

[Wavex]

You guys do whatever you want, I really could care less I was just stating the fact that per forum rules, such discussions should not happen here. That is all.

 

[Wavex]

Obviously....

Well if there was a way to pay a reasonable cost I might do that, say $5.00 to watch a race live. I don't want to pay for cable TV just to see a few races.

The MotoGP website is pretty cheap, and will give you access to all races of this season and past seasons as well. It's a great package, you should look into it :rockon:

 

[madmanmaigret]

The MotoGP website is pretty cheap, and will give you access to all races of this season and past seasons as well. It's a great package, you should look into it :rockon:

Hmmmm never thought of that! Good looking out Wavex! :thumbup:

 

[shuckle]

What do you download from torrents that's legal?

I download a few things using torrents legally. Dotnetrocks.com and hanselminutes.com encourage you to download their shows using bittorrent. Those shows are for software developers so if you're not one, you may not have any interest.

I'm sure there's others.

Just wanted to pipe in that bittorrent isn't illegal, it's just another method of transferring files, it's just that most of the files transferred using it are copyrighted.

 

[sxty8goats]

hmmm yall know this is totally illegal and shouldn't be discussed on a public forum right?

these days there are many legal torrents out there. Especially in the authorized bootleg crowds. Many bands encourage it. NIN actually organizes fans to film and often releases actual sound board recordings to the community.

If you happen to be a NIN fan, check out thisoneisonus.org This One Is On Us is the central hub for their live material for the past couple years.

 

[Wavex]

Interesting, thanks but I hate TORRENTs of any kind peer to peer is kinda lame... but again, my point was to say that discussing problems about leeching motogp races (or any "warez" for that matter) on peer to peer is against the rules of the forum.

 

[Hellgate]

Interesting, thanks but I hate TORRENTs of any kind peer to peer is kinda lame... but again, my point was to say that discussing problems about leeching motogp races (or any "warez" for that matter) on peer to peer is against the rules of the forum.

Well where can I access races, aside from Speed? That's all I want to do.