Solve : BitTorment?

1.	Solve : BitTorment?
Answer» Well where do I start... both BitTorrent and BitComet do not download anything... or practically it's like .1kb/s. I tried port forwarding, which was successful because Torrent says it's open. And in BitComet I tried increasing the TCP to 100. But ALAS!! No luck. Hmmmmmmmmmm Iunno what else to do. Hmm. Erg.Did you set the download speed in BitTorrent? What type of connection are you using?Quote from: Weeface on December 14, 2007, 03:44:58 PM Well where do I start... both BitTorrent and BitComet do not download anything... or practically it's like .1kb/s. I tried port forwarding, which was successful because Torrent says it's open. And in BitComet I tried increasing the TCP to 100. But ALAS!! No luck. Hmmmmmmmmmm Iunno what else to do. Hmm. Erg. We don't know what kind of speed your connection is capable of, until you tell us. Don't forget to consider the speed capability of to whom you are connected. The easy way to eliminate that as a possibility while you are testing your setup is to use a known, good, fast, .... very very fast, torrent. You don't have to download the whole file - just enough to let you know everything is set up correctly. Then you can delete the downloaded data. Go here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 and grab a torrent like this: ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 18-Oct-2007 08:32 and here: http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/bt.php and get: OOo_2.3.1_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe Both of these torrents have hundreds of seeders, and will quickly go to your max download speed. Makes them very good for testing your set up. You might also consider utorrent. http://www.utorrent.com Works well, and there is no "install". Just put the .exe in a dir and run it. And... they have forums right there at that site. If you have problems, you can search those forums and likely somebody else will have already had the same problem, and the solution will be posted too. Quote from: WillyW on December 14, 2007, 04:54:09 PM Quote from: Weeface on December 14, 2007, 03:44:58 PM Well where do I start... both BitTorrent and BitComet do not download anything... or practically it's like .1kb/s. I tried port forwarding, which was successful because Torrent says it's open. And in BitComet I tried increasing the TCP to 100. But ALAS!! No luck. Hmmmmmmmmmm Iunno what else to do. Hmm. Erg. We don't know what kind of speed your connection is capable of, until you tell us. Don't forget to consider the speed capability of to whom you are connected. The easy way to eliminate that as a possibility while you are testing your setup is to use a known, good, fast, .... very very fast, torrent. You don't have to download the whole file - just enough to let you know everything is set up correctly. Then you can delete the downloaded data. Go here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 and grab a torrent like this: ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 18-Oct-2007 08:32 and here: http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/bt.php and get: OOo_2.3.1_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe Both of these torrents have hundreds of seeders, and will quickly go to your max download speed. Makes them very good for testing your set up. You might also consider utorrent. http://www.utorrent.com Works well, and there is no "install". Just put the .exe in a dir and run it. And... they have forums right there at that site. If you have problems, you can search those forums and likely somebody else will have already had the same problem, and the solution will be posted too. Oh... O_o You have to have lots of seeders to be able to download fast? I guess that's my problem. Is there anyway to get a faster download with low file health? (now I know what that means -__-) What's the point of this utorrent? Btw: my download speed is 2024kb/s... wow that's good, I'm so dumb I don't deserve it. :PP I should have payed attention to the file health; it is 2/5... but you'd think it wouldn't be as slow as friggin .1, that's a mystery.Is that speed in kilobits or kilobytes?Great, now I have a different problem. I downloaded something 100%, and now it won't UPLOAD. NOW WHAT? christperson: no, pretty sure it's kilobytes... I have high speed enhanced.What do you mean by UPLOAD? Upload where?Quote from: Broni on December 17, 2007, 06:40:15 PM What do you mean by UPLOAD? Upload where? UHH, you know. No I don't mean upload to a site or anything. Don't you get after you download, the green arrow turns to a red arrow. And beside it there is the upload speed, and it says 0. -_-;Quote Don't you get after you upload, the green arrow turns to a red arrow. And beside it there is the upload speed, and it says 0. -_-; Take a look at THIS PAGE.Quote from: dairyman on December 19, 2007, 05:56:30 PM Quote Don't you get after you upload, the green arrow turns to a red arrow. And beside it there is the upload speed, and it says 0. -_-; Take a look at THIS PAGE. Oh I forgot to mention, I'm using BitComet now, so those don't apply.omfg, I'm having a h*l of a time... o_O Now I switched over to bitTorrent... and it uploads fine... except I have a question... the file is 300mb... but it UPLOADED 2GB and is still uploading. How do I know when it's done? Or is it supposed to be done? -_- geez I just wish I could download normally without using a torrent.Ok a little information on bittorrent protocol.. Once upon a time some bloke figured it would be cool if there was a way of organising a massive file sharing networks. With a wave of The Creator's hand, .torrent files were born, with another wave of said hand, He created TRACKERS to keep track of who was using the torrent files and connect them all together. Thus, when you open a .torrent with a bittorrent program, you become a 'leecher' (One Who Downloads). The data contained in the .torrent is sent to you by other people known as 'seeders' (One Who Uploads) The reason your download took a while before it started is because you had to wait for a seeder to start sending it. The reason you've uploaded 2gb is because you have gasp* transcended leecher status and become one of the Mighty seeders. It's 2gb and COUNTING because you have been uploading bits of that 300mb file to possibly several hundred different people. As far as bittorrent programs go, I would suggest Azureus, it's very cool and user friendly. Hail Bittorrent

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Well where do I start... both BitTorrent and BitComet do not download anything... or practically it's like .1kb/s. I tried port forwarding, which was successful because Torrent says it's open. And in BitComet I tried increasing the TCP to 100. But ALAS!! No luck. Hmmmmmmmmmm Iunno what else to do. Hmm. Erg.Did you set the download speed in BitTorrent?
What type of connection are you using?Quote from: Weeface on December 14, 2007, 03:44:58 PM

Well where do I start... both BitTorrent and BitComet do not download anything... or practically it's like .1kb/s. I tried port forwarding, which was successful because Torrent says it's open. And in BitComet I tried increasing the TCP to 100. But ALAS!! No luck. Hmmmmmmmmmm Iunno what else to do. Hmm. Erg.

We don't know what kind of speed your connection is capable of, until you tell us.

Don't forget to consider the speed capability of to whom you are connected.
The easy way to eliminate that as a possibility while you are testing your setup is to use a known, good, fast, .... very very fast, torrent.
You don't have to download the whole file - just enough to let you know everything is set up correctly. Then you can delete the downloaded data.

Go here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10
and grab a torrent like this:
ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 18-Oct-2007 08:32

and here:
http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/bt.php
and get:
OOo_2.3.1_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe

Both of these torrents have hundreds of seeders, and will quickly go to your max download speed. Makes them very good for testing your set up.

You might also consider utorrent.
http://www.utorrent.com
Works well, and there is no "install". Just put the .exe in a dir and run it.

And... they have forums right there at that site. If you have problems, you can search those forums and likely somebody else will have already had the same problem, and the solution will be posted too.

Quote from: WillyW on December 14, 2007, 04:54:09 PM

Quote from: Weeface on December 14, 2007, 03:44:58 PM
Well where do I start... both BitTorrent and BitComet do not download anything... or practically it's like .1kb/s. I tried port forwarding, which was successful because Torrent says it's open. And in BitComet I tried increasing the TCP to 100. But ALAS!! No luck. Hmmmmmmmmmm Iunno what else to do. Hmm. Erg.

We don't know what kind of speed your connection is capable of, until you tell us.

Don't forget to consider the speed capability of to whom you are connected.
The easy way to eliminate that as a possibility while you are testing your setup is to use a known, good, fast, .... very very fast, torrent.
You don't have to download the whole file - just enough to let you know everything is set up correctly. Then you can delete the downloaded data.

Go here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10
and grab a torrent like this:
ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 18-Oct-2007 08:32

and here:
http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/bt.php
and get:
OOo_2.3.1_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe

Both of these torrents have hundreds of seeders, and will quickly go to your max download speed. Makes them very good for testing your set up.

You might also consider utorrent.
http://www.utorrent.com
Works well, and there is no "install". Just put the .exe in a dir and run it.

And... they have forums right there at that site. If you have problems, you can search those forums and likely somebody else will have already had the same problem, and the solution will be posted too.

Oh... O_o You have to have lots of seeders to be able to download fast? I guess that's my problem. Is there anyway to get a faster download with low file health? (now I know what that means -__-) What's the point of this utorrent?
Btw: my download speed is 2024kb/s... wow that's good, I'm so dumb I don't deserve it. :PP I should have payed attention to the file health; it is 2/5... but you'd think it wouldn't be as slow as friggin .1, that's a mystery.Is that speed in kilobits or kilobytes?Great, now I have a different problem. I downloaded something 100%, and now it won't UPLOAD. NOW WHAT?

christperson: no, pretty sure it's kilobytes... I have high speed enhanced.What do you mean by UPLOAD? Upload where?Quote from: Broni on December 17, 2007, 06:40:15 PM

What do you mean by UPLOAD? Upload where?

UHH, you know. No I don't mean upload to a site or anything.
Don't you get after you download, the green arrow turns to a red arrow. And beside it there is the upload speed, and it says 0. -_-;Quote

Don't you get after you upload, the green arrow turns to a red arrow. And beside it there is the upload speed, and it says 0. -_-;

Take a look at THIS PAGE.Quote from: dairyman on December 19, 2007, 05:56:30 PM

Quote
Don't you get after you upload, the green arrow turns to a red arrow. And beside it there is the upload speed, and it says 0. -_-;

Take a look at THIS PAGE.

Oh I forgot to mention, I'm using BitComet now, so those don't apply.omfg, I'm having a h**l of a time... o_O Now I switched over to bitTorrent... and it uploads fine... except I have a question... the file is 300mb... but it UPLOADED 2GB and is still uploading. How do I know when it's done? Or is it supposed to be done? -_-

geez I just wish I could download normally without using a torrent.Ok a little information on bittorrent protocol..

Once upon a time some bloke figured it would be cool if there was a way of organising a massive file sharing networks. With a wave of The Creator's hand, .torrent files were born, with another wave of said hand, He created TRACKERS to keep track of who was using the torrent files and connect them all together.

Thus, when you open a .torrent with a bittorrent program, you become a 'leecher' (One Who Downloads). The data contained in the .torrent is sent to you by other people known as 'seeders' (One Who Uploads)

The reason your download took a while before it started is because you had to wait for a seeder to start sending it. The reason you've uploaded 2gb is because you have *gasp* transcended leecher status and become one of the Mighty seeders. It's 2gb and COUNTING because you have been uploading bits of that 300mb file to possibly several hundred different people.

As far as bittorrent programs go, I would suggest Azureus, it's very cool and user friendly.

Hail Bittorrent

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