Bit Torrents For Dummies

Dandred · Oct 29, 2004

Well I'm shit with computers but I don know that i'm downloading "have I got news for you" from the 22nd of October

The click and play thing didn't work but hopefully I can watch this later.

I know I down loaded some bit torrent stuff th eother day and i take it that I just open the file once it has downloaded and it will play?

Will it play in quick time or somthing like that.

(sorry)

Dandred · Oct 29, 2004

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Dandred said:
Well I'm shit with computers but I don know that i'm downloading "have I got news for you" from the 22nd of October

The click and play thing didn't work but hopefully I can watch this later.

I know I down loaded some bit torrent stuff the other day and i take it that I just open the file once it has downloaded and it will play?

Will it play in quick time or somthing like that.

(sorry)

Sorry to quote myself again but I'm at 85% down loaded what else do I need to know????????????????????????????????

My hopes are high, dash them before it's 100%

Iam · Oct 29, 2004

Somewhere on your client it should tell you what the file format is. It may require some codecs to play it, but a player like VLC will often sort out issues like that.

Dandred · Oct 29, 2004

Iam said:
Somewhere on your client it should tell you what the file format is. It may require some codecs to play it, but a player like VLC will often sort out issues like that.

Head over? 93%

P.S. the computer i'm using is in korean so i'm a bit lost anyway

Dandred · Oct 29, 2004

Hahahahahahahahah I'm soooooooooooo happy

It all worked out cool I'm just about to start watching it in w media player

I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jo/Joe · Oct 31, 2004

for the best speeds you'll need to open up/forward some ports to your workstation- namely ports in the 6881-6991 range or thereabouts

How do I do this? I'm using a Dlink G604T router.

kenny g · Oct 31, 2004

Jo/Joe said:
How do I do this? I'm using a Dlink G604T router.

http://portforward.com/

mellowmoose · Oct 31, 2004

This thread is so cool - im now happily downloading all sorts of stuff off bittorrent.

A huge thanks to everyone whose contributed

Iam · Oct 31, 2004

Dandred said:
Head over? 93%

P.S. the computer i'm using is in korean so i'm a bit lost anyway

Yikes!

kenny g · Nov 3, 2004

A new improved version of azureus
is out and comes highly recommended, although you will heve to get the latest Java RTE for it to be stable.

dogmatique · Nov 3, 2004

kenny g said:
A new improved version of azureus
is out and comes highly recommended, although you will heve to get the latest Java RTE for it to be stable.

I'm not convinced... I installed the new version yesterday, and it's using HUGE amounts of system resources...

Iam · Nov 3, 2004

Interesting.

I upgraded it yesterday and it's seeding a load of stuff and using virtually no resources except for the bandwidth requirement.

Course, that's on a Linux box. Doesn't Windows (esp. XP) have ongoing issues with some areas of the JRE anyway?

dogmatique · Nov 3, 2004

There's been several versions in the past that have had issues with Windoze boxes and system resources. Will have a tweak and let you know how I get on...

kenny g · Nov 5, 2004

dogmatique said:
There's been several versions in the past that have had issues with Windoze boxes and system resources. Will have a tweak and let you know how I get on...

Still waiting...

Dr Jon · Nov 5, 2004

I'm just experimenting with YABC. Zone Alarm asks if I want to allow YABC to act as server. Is this safe? Do I need something like peer guardian to protect me? :confused:

I've been trying to d/l Debian Linux by bit torrent. I keep getting 'rejected by tracker' errors and YABC just sits there doing nowt - and this is even after allowing YABC to 'act as server'.

What am I doing wrong? :confused:

Iam · Nov 5, 2004

Act as a server means that it is allowed to send information back to the internet (ie, upload), so you should be allowing it.

Can't really help with the tracker. If it's the same one each time, you probably either need to be registered with the site, or it's a problem with that specific tracker (in which case, there's nothing much you can do anyway).

tom k&e · Nov 5, 2004

It's possible the tracker is down, overloaded, or requires logins. There's no real need to get debian off BT. Plenty of places host it on ftp or http.

Iam · Nov 5, 2004

tom k&e said:
There's no real need to get debian off BT. It's possiblPlenty of places host it on ftp or http.

Indeed:

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=4

Dr Jon · Nov 5, 2004

Iam said:
Indeed:

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=4

Thanks, but I'm looking for Debian 'Sarge', which I've just found as a downloadable iso here.

I am interested to know about potential security problems with bit-torrent clients though. Do I need to use Peer Guardian or similar? If so, is it effective?

tom k&e · Nov 5, 2004

BT has no inbuilt privacy measures at all. If you're connected, anyone you're downloading or uploading to knows your IP. If you're paranoid, on a .edu connection, or on a really phat pipe, peer guardian's probably a good plan.

Of course if you're just downloading linux there's no need to worry

stdPikachu · Nov 5, 2004

tom k&e said:
Of course if you're just downloading linux there's no need to worry

Tell that to the German university who were sent a cease and desist order for hosting OpenOffice on the uni network, downloadable to all...

Vash · Nov 5, 2004

Someone make this thread a sticky please its too valuable to lose.

Celt · Dec 16, 2004

Thanks for the info in this thread - its made some sense of Bit Torrent,

can someone enlighten me about http://www.suprnova.org/ and http://www.supernova.org/ are these both ok torrent sites, the one looks like a copy of the other but I'm not sure which, if either are the imposters

Iam · Dec 16, 2004

The latter of those looks a bit dodgy to me... It requires a signup for a start, which Suprnova doesn't, and it also says that you require Windows to use the system, which is not true, either, BT is an open protocol that runs on just about anything. This all makes me a bit suspicious.

Also, the proper one has no "e" in it...

stdPikachu · Dec 16, 2004

Iam said:
The latter of those looks a bit dodgy to me...

You're right, the onyl genuine one is suprnova.org. All the rest are being held by cybersquatters who ship their own spyware-ridden windows client... which you have to pay for

Celt · Dec 16, 2004

great - thats what I thought.

Can I echo - that this should be made a sticky

Dante · Dec 18, 2004

There is an interesting paper published today in the register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/18/bittorrent_measurements_analysis/

that gives a lot of detail on the usage of BitTorrent (did you know it counted for 54% of the P2P traffic in June?)

might be worth a read.

alef · Dec 18, 2004

For any Mac users the treasure chest is http://macforum.torrentskickass.com/

Access to the torrents is by invite only, I currently have a few so just PM me your email address if you'd like one.

dogmatique · Dec 19, 2004

suprnova has gone. For good.

Crispy · Dec 19, 2004

Still plenty of stuff here (suprnova mirror)

http://donvito.qtm.com.ar/

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