Your Tips To New Torrent Users?

[tombrady]

Yeah I realized that its actually easier to not translate the page, and after a few minutes I could navigate it normally. Of course if I wanted to browse it would be a different story.
on rutorrent are you supposed to seed?

[anon]

on rutorrent are you supposed to seed?

Yeah, sort of. It's a bit hard for people to download otherwise.

[temisturk]

BitTorrent is a file sharing system--you're always supposed to seed. If you mean will they kick you out if you don't seed, that's a different question and, frankly, one which shouldn't be relevant unless you were planning on not seeding in which case I wouldn't help you.

If you don't want to seed then you should pay for access to usenet (where you're not expected to upload).

[Alien5]

Why does the latest utorrent say 100% disk overload with just a normal sized movie.

[anon]

Disk overload only happens with bad cache settings or when another program is clogging the disk for itself. I've only seen it when mencoder was active.

[zot]

on rutorrent are you supposed to seed?

Yeah, sort of. It's a bit hard for people to download otherwise.

I might be completely wrong about this, but I was under the impression that the *other* site you help run -- Small Bandwidth Innovations -- teaches people about .. well, ... something to do with what the name seems to imply. :

[tombrady]

BitTorrent is a file sharing system--you're always supposed to seed. If you mean will they kick you out if you don't seed, that's a different question and, frankly, one which shouldn't be relevant unless you were planning on not seeding in which case I wouldn't help you.
If you don't want to seed then you should pay for access to usenet (where you're not expected to upload).

Someone has said this before and I probably can't repeat it with the same elegance but:
I'm in this for me, there is nothing that I gain from seeding torrents after they are complete on public trackers, doing so only increases the risk. I am certainly grateful that other people seed and I realize the importance of seeders. This being said, I always seed the file while I am downloading and until I check my computer in the mornings, and sometimes achieve a ratio of well over 1.
The whole point of this is that I am not paying for anything, If i was going to pay a usenet I might as well go buy some content...

[zot]

I'm in this for me, there is nothing that I gain from ..........

That basically says it all right there.

But as strange as it might seem, there are actually people who enjoy helping others, without any tangible benefit -- and often at great personal risk -- to themselves. The P2P scene would not even exist without their immense contributions.

[Alien5]

Disk overload only happens with bad cache settings or when another program is clogging the disk for itself. I've only seen it when mencoder was active.

For some reason when I restarted the computer it stopped saying disk overload, so the off and on again worked.Thanks