brentspeak
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Sun Aug-21-05 03:24 PM
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Who here knows about BitTorrent? |
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Edited on Sun Aug-21-05 03:26 PM by brentspeak
I finally got DSL. So now I am able to -- or am supposed to be able to -- download bittorrents. Only thing is, after one succesful attempt at DLing a large file, no downloads seem to work properly.
Some of my downloads will start at something like 25 KB/sec, then the upload speed with surpass that, and eventually I'll be stuck with like 50% of file as DL speed is 2 KB/sec and UL speed is 50 KB/sec.
How are people able to download these large gigabyte files in the first place? Or, more simply: What am I doing wrong?
:banghead: :argh: :dunce:
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tjdee
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Sun Aug-21-05 03:29 PM
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1. I've found it takes longer than you think it will--because of seeds,etc. |
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Edited on Sun Aug-21-05 03:32 PM by tjdee
You're focusing on up/down speeds on your end, which may be a factor, but it took me a very, *very* long time to download something--and I have a cable connection.
BitTorrent, if I'm thinking correctly, depends on seeds/leeches (or peers). Seeds are the people who have the file and are giving it to the leeches (you, LOL). If no one is, or just a few people are seeding, it will take longer because so many people are trying to download from so few sources. I once tried to download something that had 1 seed and over 1000 leechers. Forgot about it. I've also seen people have problems where they are stuck at 50% (or the more annoying 98%) for that reason I think.
If you've got a good number of seeders, you should be okay. But it still takes a looonnnnnnngggggg timmmme. A friend of mine downloads movies and she'll wait for like 2/3/4 days for it to finish.
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Sun Aug-21-05 04:06 PM
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3. Yep, sometimes the wait can be maddeningly long, without |
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any sort of progress bar to indicate where you are in line - and some never show up at all - but when they do it's all good :-)
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Sun Aug-21-05 04:07 PM
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4. Depends on your connection and the seeders, as well as the tracker |
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For example I downloaded a 700mb movie in 45 minutes before. Right now, I'm downloading the first season of lost (for a second time) and it hasn't gone over 15kb/sec despite approx. 400 seeders. So it can be a guessing game sometimes.
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Sun Aug-21-05 04:04 PM
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2. What client are you using? |
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You'll want to set it to operate on certain ports, especially if you're behind any kind of a firewall. http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/25.htmlMost clients you can set which port(s) you want it to use.
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brentspeak
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Sun Aug-21-05 04:12 PM
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Edited on Sun Aug-21-05 04:14 PM by brentspeak
Before that, I tried just plain ol' Bittorrent (the original).
Under my Windows XP firewall, I clicked "allow" for ABC, though I have no idea which ports to manipulate and how to do so.
(Thanks for the link. I'll read that, and see if it will help).
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Sun Aug-21-05 04:17 PM
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6. I know you can designate the ports in ABC |
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Though I haven't used it in a while, so I forget how, haha.
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