Bit Torrents For Dummies

[Structaural]

I've just started using bittorrent last night.

What I did was to go to defiant.ws and use their search engine facility, which then redirects me to another site. Downloaded a few albums - Can, White Album, Gang of Four - but it does seem to be slow - what sort of download speeds do other people have?

Depends. If I'm getting a file from 2 seeds - it can be as low as 17k/sec - 45 seeds and I've had 650k/sec. All depends on the upload speed of the seeders and the amount of actual seeders (who will each give you a piece of the file and thus speed up downloads).

 

[Iam]

This helps, but if you're seeding 20 odd files AZ still gets a bit confused - it will continue seeding some files well past a ratio of 1.

Well, I never seed 20 odd files at once (just stupid on a 256kb upload line). And my shares go waaaaay past a ratio of 1 anyway, so I've never had that problem.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Depends. If I'm getting a file from 2 seeds - it can be as low as 17k/sec - 45 seeds and I've had 650k/sec. All depends on the upload speed of the seeders and the amount of actual seeders (who will each give you a piece of the file and thus speed up downloads).

Don't never seem to break 10k/sec - maybe my choice is too obscure.

 

[Structaural]

Well, I never seed 20 odd files at once (just stupid on a 256kb upload line). And my shares go waaaaay past a ratio of 1 anyway, so I've never had that problem.

I've got 1mbit upload and 8mbit download so it does take a bit of careful maintenance to keep my ratios sorted (and it take quite a while for the upload to catch up to the download).

AZ's seeding is moaned about on a lot of bittorrent forums. BitTornado does it better but only one at a time... I just prefer AZ's interface.

 

[Structaural]

Don't never seem to break 10k/sec - maybe my choice is too obscure.

You could try a different tracker - might be fast uploaders on it - can you get into filelist.org and then into filemp3.org? - they're very good.

 

[Iam]

I've got 1mbit upload and 8mbit download so it does take a bit of careful maintenance to keep my ratios sorted (and it take quite a while for the upload to catch up to the download).

AZ's seeding is moaned about on a lot of bittorrent forums. BitTornado does it better but only one at a time... I just prefer AZ's interface.

See, your line is 4 times the size of mine, but I tend to just leave stuff running for ages and never have ratio issues:

But then, I can imagine 20 at a time would be harder. I tend to only have 3 or 4 going at once...

 

[Structaural]

(Interesting filename there Ianm)

I've a good broadband connection but crap cable connection - so I've no decent tv input into my apartment, so I tend to download everything me and my gf watch. Means I usually have at least 5 d/ls a day - approaching 1.5gig a day - it all gets a bit confusing - especially knowing what to delete and what we've watched etc...

Kargara is the hardest one I've found to get ratios up as hardly anyone wants the file once I've downloaded it.

 

[Bajie]

dont know if this link has been posted yet:
http://www.legaltorrents.com
some intresting looking films under the creative commons license, downloading some at the moment so will be intresting to see what they are like.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

You could try a different tracker - might be fast uploaders on it - can you get into filelist.org and then into filemp3.org? - they're very good.

No, all full at the moment. I will go back when I think of it, but if anybody notices there is space for new members then post it up.

 

[miniGMgoit]

audionew.ru are going to be taking new menbers on the 2/8/05 just in case anyone is interested. They do have the toughest sharing deal going though.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

What's the difference between a peer and a seed?

 

[Bajie]

Peer = downloading
Seed = Uploading (only)

 

[Structaural]

also:
Peer - doesn't have the whole file
Seed - has the entire file

 

[zenie]

I am new to all this 'torrentsy' but I like it

Have read all the faq's but when I try an download azureus it tries to charge me is this right?

Like so much a month or lifetime membership etc.

From what I gather I need this so that it can download the torrent files right?

 

[easy g]

azureus is free but every so often it'll ask you if you would like to donate

wherever you're downloading from you shouldn't be charged...

azureus is a bit torrent client and there are many other clients out there

I'll get the url for the official download, where are you trying to get it from?

 

[easy g]

here you go

Azureus

 

[zenie]

Thankyou easy g

I just typed in google and clicked the link it gave me ....

*i know nothing*

it's coming up with loads of errors duing set up

 

[easy g]

not sure tbh iirc I've used the UK, Swiss and one or two others in the past (they all hold a lot of the sourceforge stuff I think)

you should be ok whichever you choose

 

[zenie]

Turns out azureus was left behind when he dleetd his account.

Can anyone pm some links to decent bit sites?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Haven't noticed this before. 16 albums by DJ Shadow

http://www.bogaa.org/details/167439.html

 

[Bajie]

I have some invites for demonoid.com (normal registration is closed at the moment), it's one of the better trackers imo. Might as well put them to some use, pm etc

 

[Structaural]

I have some invites for demonoid.com (normal registration is closed at the moment), it's one of the better trackers imo. Might as well put them to some use, pm etc

and me - same applies (it's particularly good for warez and mac stuff)

 

[Bajie]

Registration for Demonoid are now open againe after being closed (except for invites) for quite a while:
http://www.demonoid.com/

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I've had problem with a crashing pc which i think is due to bit torrent. I understand that it can sometimes rub up against drivers. Has anybody else had this problem? I'm downloading two torrents at a time now rather than 5.

 

[easy g]

nah not really...I know Azureus can hog resources a bit but I have similar problems with Firefox and ZA..

 

[Divisive Cotton]

nah not really...I know Azureus can hog resources a bit but I have similar problems with Firefox and ZA..

I've got bittorrent, firefox and ZA... which may explain why I've had memory problems.

 

[easy g]

yeah...for example, if you go into task manager you'll see vsmon.exe eating memory...that's ZA

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I might switch over to Microsoft's firewall - I have SP2.

 

[Bajie]

I have found the the ABC client really eats up resources, esepcially if more than 2 torrents are being downloaded at the same time. The client I have found runs the smoothest is BitTornado, it only downloads 1 torrent at a time but I got round this before by insalling it agine to a different directory. So can download more than 1 torrent by having multiple open programs, and it still is lighter on system resources.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I have found the the ABC client really eats up resources, esepcially if more than 2 torrents are being downloaded at the same time. The client I have found runs the smoothest is BitTornado, it only downloads 1 torrent at a time but I got round this before by insalling it agine to a different directory. So can download more than 1 torrent by having multiple open programs, and it still is lighter on system resources.

Just going to download to torrents at a time now - the amount of grief this has caused me over the last month. I know it's free software, but I wish they'd put some sort of warning on it.