davieG Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 What are they? How do they help with downloads? How do you use them? Is there more than 1? Are they specific to a piece/type of software being down loaded? Is there anything else we should know about them before using them? The last time I asked this all I got was a witty reply from MrC, A serious response would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Ric Flair Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 What are they? How do they help with downloads? How do you use them? Is there more than 1? Are they specific to a piece/type of software being down loaded? Is there anything else we should know about them before using them? The last time I asked this all I got was a witty reply from MrC, A seriuos response would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Tim Howard will tell ya.
Foxing_Around Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 Davieg you may find the following link useful: Click Here
BMR Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 What are they? How do they help with downloads? How do you use them? Is there more than 1? Are they specific to a piece/type of software being down loaded? Is there anything else we should know about them before using them? The last time I asked this all I got was a witty reply from MrC, A serious response would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Ok here's a link i gave out earlier, this time for the completee torrent guide of the site:- Ultimate Torrent Guide hope this helps mate, in a nutshell torrents are a peer 2 peer file sharing method where there is at least one seed(someone with a complete copy) and numurous leechers(people downloading chunks from the seed), you need a bit torrent client (ie azureus or bit tornado) to d/l the torrents, afte you have installed the client use the link above again to find the sites that list the torrents, click the torrent that takes your fancy and your client will auto load and begin d/l the torrent, slow at forst but as more of the swarm are connected it will speed up.
Fox Shagger Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 I just downloaded fifa 2006 (3.5GB) using bit torrent. I've downloaded loads of movies and games using it. It is brilliant.
Hullfox Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 Davieg you may find the following link useful: Click Here It's alright you offering these people help young FA, Uncle Jase's email still won't work tho.
The People's Hero Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 I just downloaded fifa 2006 (3.5GB) using bit torrent. I've downloaded loads of movies and games using it. It is brilliant. Which site did you get it from please? I use torrentreactor a lot.
Cat Burger Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 Annoyed that I can't use torrents or p2p on my uni connection!
davieG Posted 17 October 2005 Author Posted 17 October 2005 Thanks everyone, looks like i need to do a bit of reading, although at first glance it still seems very jargonistic
Fox Shagger Posted 17 October 2005 Posted 17 October 2005 Which site did you get it from please? I use torrentreactor a lot. I got it from www.isohunt.com. Just type in fifa 2006 and it should come up
The People's Hero Posted 18 October 2005 Posted 18 October 2005 Cheerses! Will check it out tonight mate!
Hitesh Posted 18 October 2005 Posted 18 October 2005 torrents are better than P2P! But only if people seed!
Gené and Tonic Posted 21 October 2005 Posted 21 October 2005 Whats the best BitTorrent program to use?
Gené and Tonic Posted 21 October 2005 Posted 21 October 2005 Ok, I've got one called ABC. But my downloads won't start, all they say is connecting to peer. How do I get them to start downloading?
Hitesh Posted 21 October 2005 Posted 21 October 2005 torrents require people to seed and your ABC program is trying to find them. I use Shareaza coz that handles both P2P and Torrents.
cisono Posted 21 October 2005 Posted 21 October 2005 Thanks everyone, looks like i need to do a bit of reading, although at first glance it still seems very jargonistic Hmm yes, most of them are... unfortunately!
davieG Posted 31 October 2009 Author Posted 31 October 2009 Bump - I manage to suss out using torrents to download but know I'm trying to up load the QPR game. leftsideoverhere sent me a pm with some info but I'm stuck on trackers and seeding. Anyone out there who can steer me in the right direction. I've got the file in mpg format on my pc I've got bitTorrent and utorrent downloaded ( although they look like the same site. I've found Create new torrent and looked for a suitable tracker but nothing seems to take me to one that works. The website guidance that leftsideoverhere sent me doesn't say how to incorporate seeds. Yours old and confused.
BoneDog Posted 31 October 2009 Posted 31 October 2009 If ever a torrent of QPR Leicester full match comes up I will seed it forever! I'm not tight on me upload limits, I got one film on utorrent at the minute that I uploaded over 50gb so far.
davieG Posted 31 October 2009 Author Posted 31 October 2009 If ever a torrent of QPR Leicester full match comes up I will seed it forever! I'm not tight on me upload limits, I got one film on utorrent at the minute that I uploaded over 50gb so far. That's very nice of you but I still don't know how to finish off this upload and how do I get your seed into my torrent (oops perhaps I should rephrase that )
BoneDog Posted 31 October 2009 Posted 31 October 2009 Bump - I manage to suss out using torrents to download but know I'm trying to up load the QPR game.leftsideoverhere sent me a pm with some info but I'm stuck on trackers and seeding. Anyone out there who can steer me in the right direction. I've got the file in mpg format on my pc I've got bitTorrent and utorrent downloaded ( although they look like the same site. I've found Create new torrent and looked for a suitable tracker but nothing seems to take me to one that works. The website guidance that leftsideoverhere sent me doesn't say how to incorporate seeds. Yours old and confused. I think that seeders are just people who have downloaded the file from another user using utorrent or another programme and leave it active on their utorrent for other people to continue downloading it. Once 1 person has downloaded it from you then as long as they seed for a while then the file will still be available even if you stop allowing people to download it from you. Once 4 people have downloaded it then there would be 4 seeders if they left it active. Not sure what a tracker is.
BoneDog Posted 31 October 2009 Posted 31 October 2009 That's very nice of you but I still don't know how to finish off this upload and how do I get your seed into my torrent (oops perhaps I should rephrase that ) HA not sure how it works. I don't think you have to do anything to get seeds in. I think you just have to get the file converted into torrent (no idea how) then as soon as it is available and people start downloading the file those people automatically turn into seeders. It's too complicated for me to figure out
Fox You Forest Posted 31 October 2009 Posted 31 October 2009 I've only ever downloaded them so I've no idea really, does this help with the trackers? http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/ The Utorrent part is the first one down the page. Edit, http://forum.mininova.org/index.php?showtopic=234992250 That's even better.
davieG Posted 31 October 2009 Author Posted 31 October 2009 Ok I've uploaded it as a torrent using BitTorrent6.2. The file is called qprvlcfc-30-10-09.mpg.torrent file:///G:/Leicester%20City/2009-10%20Goals/original%20recordings/away%20v%20qpr/qprvlcfc-30-10-09.mpg.torrent I don't know if that's it
Fox You Forest Posted 31 October 2009 Posted 31 October 2009 Ok I've uploaded it as a torrent using BitTorrent6.2. The file is called qprvlcfc-30-10-09.mpg.torrentfile:///G:/Leicester%20City/2009-10%20Goals/original%20recordings/away%20v%20qpr/qprvlcfc-30-10-09.mpg.torrent I don't know if that's it I got a blank page when i clicked the link so copied and pasted it in and got this. Error 6 (net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): The file or directory could not be found. On that second link I posted it says this in step 6, 6. You should then see your new torrent in your active list in utorrent, and the status should say 'seeding' as shown below. If you get any error messages such as 'Error: the system cannot find the file specified' then there is a problem and you should try again.
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