Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: animecyberrat on March 20, 2008, 11:44:47 PM
Title: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 20, 2008, 11:44:47 PM
Does anyone know anything about these? Is it ok to discuss here? Just curious got questions need answers but not wanting to start a topic that is forbidden.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: DAaaMan64 on March 21, 2008, 12:04:08 AM
Torrents are not hard to understand, they just work much different than the usually peer to peer systems. Basically when you go to a torrent site, find the thing you want, and download the torrent. When you download the torrent, make sure you have a piece of software called a bittorrent client. Examples are Azureus and utorrent. Get one of those, and use it to open the torrent file you downloaded. Once you do that, the client will set it up for you, it will begin downloading the file you are requesting to location that either you set, or the software set for you(changeable in option menus). All data from a torrent comes from any amount of peers your client can connect to. You will become one share peers the longer you leave that torrent active. The client will take what data you have downloaded and share it with peers making requests. Things that help torrent speed are:
Port forwarding Certain internet services providers
Good luck!
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 12:09:38 AM
I know what torrents are and how they work, i just wanna know why Azureus keeps telling me I am fire walled when I am not and how to speed the downloads up, I'm on 8Meg Internet but only get 200K maximum download speed while using azureus.
Edit: Sorry my hand fella sleep while typing that post and I missed some spelling errors.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: ShyGuy on March 21, 2008, 12:10:38 AM
I share Freespire 2.0.0.8 by torrent over the internet. It is a free Linux distribution.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: stevey on March 21, 2008, 12:20:12 AM
Are you using a router? If you are than your route is blocking your ports like a firewall by default. To check this go to TOOL>NAT/FIREWALL test> and Check a couple of different ports (l48500, 57982, etc) to see if it not just a blocked port by your ISP. If they're all errors you need to see a port forwarding guide (http://portforward.com/default.htm).
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 12:34:26 AM
I bypassed the router and it fixed the problem. But my stupid Cable Model keeps losing internet for some reason. I have cable One, they aren't as bad as what I had before but they don't seam too reliable.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: Athrun Zala on March 21, 2008, 12:43:34 AM
I wouldn't expect it to go any faster if using public trackers...
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: DAaaMan64 on March 21, 2008, 12:44:04 AM
I bypassed the router and it fixed the problem. But my stupid Cable Model keeps losing internet for some reason. I have cable One, they aren't as bad as what I had before but they don't seam too reliable.
Is it a modem/router combination?
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 12:50:44 AM
Yes. Well it was, I unhooked the router.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: DAaaMan64 on March 21, 2008, 01:18:23 AM
Oh sorry I meant is your cable modem a router/modem combination. As in 1 unit that does both. Do you know that?
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 01:26:51 AM
No it wasn't it was a typical Linksys router.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: Pale on March 21, 2008, 11:28:16 AM
8 megabits = 1 024 kilobytes
Make sure you are comparing apples to apples when trying to achieve the speed you want.
Also, the bottleneck is ALWAYS upload pipes of others. Torrents overcome this by having you DL from multiple people, but usually people will cap their uploads to around 2-3k, so you would need to be dling from a ton of people to maximize your download speed.
Basically, I think you are expecting too much out of this.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: Nick DiMola on March 21, 2008, 11:30:53 AM
Make sure you cap your total upload as well, because you will flood your connection if it is too high. I usually put mine around 5-10 kbps and have never had issues.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 12:17:50 PM
I wasn't expecting super fast download speeds, but when I had 3 Meg DSL I could get 200K a second download, now that I have 8Meg Cable, I still get 200K DL, so what is up with that? I only use private torrents, mostly iptorrents, and I look for ones with as many seeds/peers as possible. If I got the same speed I am getting now with internet 2/3rds slower, what am I doing wrong?
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: Nick DiMola on March 21, 2008, 01:15:05 PM
Well with a torrent, you are largely dependent on what other people are uploading. Regardless of your connection, if the maximum connections you have in the swarm is only netting you 200kbps, you aren't going to do any better no matter what.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 01:25:43 PM
People need to share more :(
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 21, 2008, 01:33:51 PM
Then you people need to increase your upstream to 20KB/sec+ instead of being 5 KB/sec douches.
You'll be fine with 10-15 KB/sec of remaining upstream.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 01:39:43 PM
I keep mine at 25K a second and it never slows me down.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: Caliban on March 21, 2008, 04:00:40 PM
600 max download, and personal limitation on upload of 60 (max is 90). Use utorrent. I didn't like using Azureus.
Title: Re: Torrents?
Post by: animecyberrat on March 21, 2008, 04:04:16 PM
I tried utorrent, it sucked and then iptorrents banned it's usage anyways, I was uploaded and had to switch.
