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Look at the first post, its teaching completly from scratch.
A quick answer, you dont open bittorrent like kazaa. You open the individual torrent file and that triggers the client to open. So first of all you need to get a torrent to test.
just click on one of the links on http://suprnova.tk/ and you'll know if you've installed it right or not. :D
thks.
[COLOR=blue]good day to all,although mine is is going dwnhill because i really really like what bt offers but it is slowing my klite dwnloads or not d/l at all.i'm on dial up,broadband is prohibitively expensive in this part of the world,my 1st time using bittorrent i d/l a music album of 100mb+,my d/l speed is 1kb(gosh!) and upload is 2kb,what should i do to increase my upload speed so i can have a faster d/l speed?pls help a noob here,thank you.
Very nice guide, thanks a lot m8.
A question: Is it possible to download several torrents at the same time? I am using the official client (3.3). Thanks!
Yes it is possiable just use the shadow client, its in the guide some where and if your too lazy to look, just clickHERE
so if I have a 30 kb/s capped upload speed, my files will only download at maximum 30 kb/s?
No this is necesseraly the case, i too am capped at a 30kB/s upload, but have reached speeds far superior to that. Its not an exact since its dependent on the number of seeds number of peers and so on.
With 1 seed and 1000 peers its going to go very slow but with 1000 seeds and 1 peer your going to get maxed out. :D
sweet, I just tested a file and my download was going 55 kb/s while my upload around 10-20, so I guess this is a great program. Hopefully my dl speed will go higher above 100 kb/s...lolQuote:
Originally posted by LINDOREZ@7 December 2003 - 11:25
No this is necesseraly the case, i too am capped at a 30kB/s upload, but have reached speeds far superior to that. Its not an exact since its dependent on the number of seeds number of peers and so on.
With 1 seed and 1000 peers its going to go very slow but with 1000 seeds and 1 peer your going to get maxed out. :D
yo lindorez you said way back there that you were getting hits from the mpaa and the riaa whats the deal with that
do i need to worry and is there a way to stop the hits? i know with kazaa they say to disable 1234 any trick like that up your sleeve for bt thanx tons
Yeah yahooo just download peerguardian from http://xs.tech.nu/ and keep it running at all times, this will block any such activity. As long as you keep your list updated. :D
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Hi m8s
I have been using Bittorrent without any firewall with great results (Shadow's). Today I have installed the last ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5 and I would like to ask you something:
Bittorrent client reports green status light, but my download speeds are not the same as they were when I was without the firewall. It can be maybe a question of hitting some bad seeders in this period, but I would like to be sure. As you may know ZAP configure the access to the programs automatically, so I suposse bittorrent client has gotten everything that it knows after I have autorized it to access the internet. I get people downloading from me, and the light is green in all the torrents that I have opened at the momment. Do you think that it is still necesary to open the port range on the firewall, or everything should work fine as it is now?
Thanks a lot for the info.
ok, i installed bittorrent and downloaded a few files with it. my share rating is very small: 1.5 usually, and my upload is usually like 5 kb/s. what files am i sharing?! and how can i configure which ones to share and which not to? :(
thanx.
lee551 with bittorrent you only share the file you are currently downloading or seeding. Please leave the client open as long as possiable so more people have a chance to recieve the file. :D
ok thanx LINDOREZ, so if its going slow theres nothing i can do about it. :unsure:
Yes bittorrent is a great P2P for games, movies(screeners dvd vcd ETC)
Tv series, apps and so on.
you should get downloads of 55kb/s for almost all your downloads on 512 broadband www.suprnova.org is the best site it also has a search site www.novasearch.net :D
can somebody help me please? i use to use shadows experemental, and i would always get a yellow light, and i read that it had to do with routers or firewalls, now i use azureus, it is a bit cleare on the problem, its a NAT prb, but i dont even know what that is. im guessing its my router thats causing the yellow liight for expermental and odd smiley for azureus, soo, i have a D-Link 704 anybody else have this model? i dont know how tocan anybody help?Quote:
For a router, you need to forward the ports used by Azureus in TCP. By default from 2.0.6.0 on, it is only port 6881.
Try go to http://grc.com , then select "Shields Up." You'll be able to test your "Common Ports." If you are not behind any firewall or NAT, it should showed "open!" . Also, you can tell it to probe port 6881-6889 using "User Specified Custom Port Probe" option.
Hey
I just did the shields up thing and found all my ports were on stealth mode including 6881-6889, this seems good for security but since my torent(shadows) has a yellow light(which I just realized is bad after reading this post) I was wondering what I needed to do to get it to work faster???
Im using winXP without any additional firewall stuff.
Also if I do anything will it make my PC vulnerable to anything??
Thanks
Jack
Oh
Also I dont think the winXP firewall is on, but Im not sure.
Thanks
if you have yellow light then you have a NAT problem,that is a router or firewall problem,to check if you have the xp firewall on you go to Start then Control Panels, then internet connections tab, then clicked on Advanced on that page, and finally under security or firewall or something you'll find something where there's a check box to turn off the firewall.Quote:
Originally posted by jack7777766@17 February 2004 - 18:24
Oh
Also I dont think the winXP firewall is on, but Im not sure.
Thanks
about shields up
If all your port displayed as green => "stealth" => you are behind firewall or proxy server. It should all comes out as red => "open" => you are not behind firewall/no protection between you and the internet.
the firewall check box is off, but I have a router and a home network so im gonna check the settings on those.
Thanks
Jack
about the ports 6881-6889 ,thats what azureus used,actually now it use one single incoming port and thats port 6881Quote:
Originally posted by kungartur@11 February 2004 - 17:13
Try go to http://grc.com , then select "Shields Up." You'll be able to test your "Common Ports." If you are not behind any firewall or NAT, it should showed "open!" . Also, you can tell it to probe port 6881-6889 using "User Specified Custom Port Probe" option.
You simply cannot exceed the speed of your connection -- especially on uploads -- without BAD things happening. Even if your ISP doesn't further cripple your connection, pushing upload speeds to absolute max only results in hideous download speeds and ironically REDUCED upload speeds compaired to 'nearly max speed' uploading.Quote:
Originally posted by typingsux@21 June 2004 - 18:32
I can get a few hundred down and only can only all 13 up. If I leave it on cable fast I'll wind up getting capped from my provider at 128k instead of 1mbit.
I am not asking you to upload at 'unlimited' speed -- I highly recommend AGAINST using that setting.
I in fact think it is BETTER to be using super seed mode and 'average' (maybe half max for your connection -- or even less) upload rate over a LONG period of time rather than using normal seed mode and a faster upload rate for a shorter period of time EVEN THOUGH in the second case you upload MORE. This is because with super seed mode you are giving the NEEDED parts to the swarm of downloaders to share among themselves. With regular seed mode, you may be uploading the same parts multiple times to different users while they NEVER get the missing parts they all need before you reach 1:1 ratio for uploading to downloading.
Note that with LOTS of downloaders/peers and many distributed copies between thm, super seed mode DOESN'T work well. It's when the number of downloaders is few and/or a FULL copy of the file cannot be created by them sharing the parts they have that super seed mode is really needed. If there's lots and lots of downloaders, you'll end up sharing 1/10th of a chunk to lots of users and they won't be able to upload ANY of it till they get a complete chunk.
File chunks are typically 256 KiloBYTES in size, although they are often larger for movies. Even at 10 KB/sec upload rate to 4 users, splitting that equally means they each get 2.5 KB/sec. So it takes about 1min 45sec to send out a chunk to each person -- however BitTorrent likes to 'jump users' on uploads a LOT if there's lots of users, so it may take considerably longer before you send the 1st chunk to ANYONE. Until someone gets at least 1 COMPLETE file chunk that somebody else needs, they will not upload anything.
Even a 1:1 upload:download ratio is only a general rule. Some torrents have SO MANY seeds that you can't upload fast on them because all the peers/downloaders are maxed out in speed! Others need far more uploading JUST to keep those torrents alive! I try to keep my upload bandwidth at least 75% used even 24/7 -- since I cannot save it up and it's separate from my download bandwidth.
For those with bandwidth daily/monthly caps, I recommend uploading at a (much?) reduced rate but over a longer period. You don't have to upload 1:1 with your downloads, but you BETTER NOT exit the torrent (unless you're just rebooting and/or will return later) if there's no other seeds! At least make sure all the peers/downloaders have at least 1 (preferably more) distributed file copy between themselves.
Something new I've started doing is starting FINISHED torrents immediately after rebooting, because these can start uploading immediately while I search for and/or start new torrents. After new torrents start uploading, I either slow or exit these finished torrents so the new torrents can upload and hopefully download at full speed. Once again this is because I cannot save my upload bandwidth up for later use... so I might as well give away all I can. :)
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holy cow, this post is helping me out TONS.
quite a comprehensive guide
Great guide, thanks!
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nice tutorial
thank you
nice little guide there thanks.
Velly intellesting.....
this is a good guide for starters (Y) nice one
Thank you very much for this guide!.
very much informative
thanku
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nice way 2 show pple
thank you
Now, i knew new things about torrent
tnx
and remember to use peerguardian or similar guys !