Has anyone made a good beginners guide to torrenting?

[Waddafocky]

If 6 gigs is a struggle to make space then Why not invest in a new bigger hard drive.

Find me a 2tb 2.5 inch drive and ill install it.
6 gigs was a single file, and no, its not a huge problem to have one, or two or even like four. But if i had to keep every original file that I torrent I would quickly run out of space.

What I was thinking was maybe I should buy an old desktop PC, like a apple powermac G5, and load it with cheap 3.5 inch HDD's, leave it in a corner with a wired connection straight to my router for optimal speed and use that as a box that I just leave on all of the time and use to torrent everything, then just copy the files to my laptop. This would allow me to seed and probably never run out of space, as well as meaning that I don't have to run the torrent client on my computer.

If you can't find a desktop for free I recommend getting a pogoplug instead - they go for about 25$ and probably take up way less energy. And why copy to the laptop if you can just stream from whatever server you decide to use.

[mjmacky]

Wait, who's Tom Brady? Can I make fun of him?

[tombrady]

Wait, who's Tom Brady? Can I make fun of him?

seriously?

[anigav]

Wait, who's Tom Brady? Can I make fun of ridicule him?

fixed.

[Alien5]

What I was thinking was you could buy an old desktop PC, like an old Desktop PC and load it with dutch porn from the 1970's leave it in a corner with a wire straight to you mums router for the porn then just copy the porn to your laptop.

[mjmacky]

Wait, who's Tom Brady? Can I make fun of him?

seriously?

Does he have anything to do with soccer?

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[IdolEyes787]

Wait, who's Tom Brady? Can I make fun of him?

You could but I don't think it would really bother him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ompletion.html

[Alien5]

I'm glad you said that because your reply there really left me speechless. But as much as I applaud your honesty I'm one of the people who seeds public torrents--one of the people you take from without giving back to--so I'm not sure I want to continue helping you.

Thanks for being one of the generous people. I have a couple questions about how to seed I guess since maybe I'm just confused about the process. It seems to me that often during my torrent downloads i will maintain for instance a 200kB/s download speed and a maybe 4kB/s upload speed. Once I'm done it the download speed drops to 1kB/s and the upload stays about the same. A lot of the time they both stop. I'm not limiting the seed ratio or the upload speed, leaving both at unlimited, but it seems to me that I really don't provide a whole lot of service to the community. I might get to a 0.100 ratio if I download the average 700MB movie while I sleep. When I wake up I normally turn off my computer or put it to sleep and go to class. If I shut down, the torrent obviously stops and if I take my laptop to class I have to quit out of the client because my university monitors their network. Now until I need another torrent download I have little incentive to reopen the client. Im not going to leave my computer on and running day and night for a week to build up a ratio that does nothing for me. I mean, if I am able to download overnight 700MB, but unable to seed the same amount in a week, are people actually benefiting from my seeding? Arn't the same people that I got the content from still there giving it out? Are they going to lessen in number because I now seed? I guess I just feel that wasting power running my laptop (i could run folding@home and get two jobs done at the same time) but I just don't think its worth it. I don't feel like I am a selfish person, I volunteer occasionally, I give small donations to various charities, I sometimes use paypal to give a dollar or two to a developer of free software. I guess to me seeding isn't one of the ways I give back to the community, I'm sorry I'm not more compelled but I guess I just don't see much of a point.

Seeding has nothing to do with giving back to the community, seeding is just one aspect of the way your BitTorrent client works, no seeds = shit speeds.

[Night0wl]

I guess to me seeding isn't one of the ways I give back to the community, I'm sorry I'm not more compelled but I guess I just don't see much of a point.

So in other words you're just a leecher that doesn't give back? Merry Christmas to everyone but you

[Alien5]

I give back...most of the time I leave the pc on when I'm out, easy.

Merry Christmas