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Bit Torrents For Dummies

Excellent thread - ive been trying to figure out how to use bit torrent too and its been a total mystery to me till now :)

Thanks dub for asking the question :)

mellowmoose
 
While we are talking Bit Torrent, what is an average download speed? I only seem to be getting 10kb/s at the most, all my ports are open as per various FAQ.
 
Depends on the site. On the private sites (empornium, torrentbits) I can max out my DL bandwidth ie 1Mbit/s = 128kB/s. The public ones (suprnova) are much much slower, probably because there are often more than 10 times as many leechers as seeds, and everyone always hit & runs.

Remember that BT is dependant on your UL bandwidth, so you'll always be much faster on a 100 meg acadmic LAN than on a piddly little ADSL line
 
Eh? The more people downloading/uploading the merrier, thats the whole point of bittorrent. The only problem is if everyone sets their upload limit to FA. I have it set to 20Ks over all my downloads and seeds.

I regularly get 100Ks off suprnova, Farscape Season 2 I got 200Ks.
 
Sunray said:
Don't like the look of java apps, slightly non-windows look and feel.

The abc client is a win32 bin so I don't need it and that client does all I need so I don't need it.
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Whilst I don't agree with the aesthetics comment, I've still given abc a try and to be honest, I quite like the fact that I don't have to install Java for windows to make it work. I think I'll keep it, thanks :)
 
Sunray said:
Eh? The more people downloading/uploading the merrier, thats the whole point of bittorrent. The only problem is if everyone sets their upload limit to FA. I have it set to 20Ks over all my downloads and seeds.

I regularly get 100Ks off suprnova, Farscape Season 2 I got 200Ks.
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I never get speeds that good off suprnova. If there are too few seeders and loads of leechers, you end up getting some of the file really fast, and the rest really slowly. My experience has been that the private sites tend to be ~10 times faster
 
I have DSL, basic DSL and for me to download a file below 600MB it takes a whole night... But if its 700MB or more, it takes two-three days.... This is from suprnova.org

So I'm wondering what are good torrent sites??
 
xbvalk said:
I have DSL, basic DSL and for me to download a file below 600MB it takes a whole night... But if its 700MB or more, it takes two-three days.... This is from suprnova.org

So I'm wondering what are good torrent sites??
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My Faves
 
Make sure you're careful about your ratio! If you get above 20 gig downloaded and your ratio sucks, you WILL be banned.

Class site though isn't it ;). I've got about 4 gigs off it in the last few days.
 
right - i've got abc installed and can download files no problem, nice and fast too (500kB/s for one movie - i love my work's internet connection!)

but....

probably a very stupid questions - how do i share the files i've already got? i only had to specify a download folder location, not where my existing files live when i installed abc so how does it work?? i want to share them mainly so it will improve my upload/download ratio, no?
 
You upload by just leaving the download open after it's finished. ABC is set by default to leave torrents seeding for 30 minutes. You can change tis in Preferences. To upload something new to a website you need to create a torrent (ABC has an option for this) and upload to the tracker, usualy via a web form. Many trackers restrict who can upload new torrents.

I'd be carefull on your work connection. Your sysadmin may notice all the extra traffic. I'm sorely tempted to use my improbably fast college connection, but would be in deep shite if I did I suspect.
 
tom k&e said:
You upload by just leaving the download open after it's finished. ABC is set by default to leave torrents seeding for 30 minutes.
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ok - seems strange that i have Gb's of files sitting here that i could be sharing but am not cos i don't have the torrent file - just not what I'm used to after using mainly soulseek, but don't matter i guess.

tom k&e said:
I'd be careful on your work connection. Your sysadmin may notice all the extra traffic. I'm sorely tempted to use my improbably fast college connection, but would be in deep shite if I did I suspect
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Cheers for the warning, I think it will be ok, we're kinda swamped with bandwidth here (sitting right on the internet backbone so to speak) and amazingly no one seems to mind what we get up to with our net usage as it is a mere fraction of the total data coming in and out each day... but i won't take the piss too much...

Thanks mate

:)
 
tom k&e said:
You upload by just leaving the download open after it's finished. ABC is set by default to leave torrents seeding for 30 minutes.
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I've set it to 100%, which I think is a bareist minimum, but dictated by my uplink bandwidth.
 
Showed a mate this thread, they're wondering what torrent search is good for finding general-ish sorta music.. like what you might get off kazaa
 
Right I've downloaded the bit torrent software and i'm a member of one of the supplers (nova uk) or something I was just wondering do I have to wait for stuff to download or is it just click and go?

The FAQs don't seem to answer the simple questions
 
Once you have the client installed, find the torrent link and click and it will fire up the client.
 
Sunray said:
Once you have the client installed, find the torrent link and click and it will fire up the client.
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... just to add I would recommend you make sure the torrent file is saved to your pc first as some browsers open the client app straight away and if your download crashes you have to find the same torrent file again before resuming. However if saved to your pc you can just click on the saved file to resume your download

Something I realised after losing a few because I could not find the same tracker again :mad:
 
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