Plz Help Me With Downhloading From Torrent Sites
#1
01 Sep 2009 @ 7:47
wozza329
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Does it make a difference what I use to download torrents? I use bitcomet and am not really sure what I'm doing, if I try to download updates or free software, it still uses bitcomet to download it and seems really slow, it just downloaded straight to my computer before I installed bitcomet and it was much quicker, should it use bitcomet for everything I download? I thought it was just for downloading from torrent sites, am I doing something wrong and/or is there a better way of downloading? a friend i know uses bittorret, are some better than others and do some work better and faster? i would be greatful if someone can help me with these problems.
#2
01 Sep 2009 @ 11:48
mistycat
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No, program's other than torrent's shouldn't be opening in BitComet. One client shouldn't vary a great deal from another but some will run better on some machine's. BitLord is one I would stay away from, utorrent is light and very popular, Vuze is popular but it seem's fairly heavy and uses Java. More important as far as speed would be if you use any kind of firewall or router that need's port forwarding and maybe a static ip address. I would guess you have selected some setting to open program's with BitComet but am not familiar with it. Maybe something to do with your browser, which one?
#3
01 Sep 2009 @ 13:43
I'm using internet explorer, I thought I might have clicked on something by accident that was making everything I download use bitcomet but I'm not sure how to change it, I've got a green light that says my listen port is open and I can get the best download speeds but I'm not sure what that means, I'm only getting 10kb/s most of the time, is it that I'm trying to download torrents that have too few seeds perhaps? I find it hard to find sites that have well seeded torrents, I'm only really using iso hunt and pirate bay because alot of sites want payment and I'm not really sure wether its a good idea registering or if its even worth it, thanks for your help.
#4
01 Sep 2009 @ 15:54
mistycat
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If you have a green light, you're good to go, You can fine tune your upload speed to around 80% to help speed's. Take this speed test and note upload rate (change to kb in setting's, upper left): http://www.speedtest.net/ BitComet show's in kB (byte's), so to change kb (bit's) to kB, divide the kb by 8 to get kB and use 80% of that in BitComet. Take the test a few time's at various time's to get a good average. Speed's are going to vary according to seed's, peer's, amount you have, etc. Here's a good search engine: http://btjunkie.org/ Private site's are definitely the way to go; better speed's and safer but you will have to maintain a ratio. Never heard of IE causing that, maybe it set BitComet as the default download method (in BitComet setting's). Don't ever pay for anything associated with torrent's.
This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 02 Sep 2009 @ 16:31
#5
02 Sep 2009 @ 13:34
Thanks for your help mistycat, I'll try that, I've sorted the problem with bitcomet downloading everything but I'm having problems getting my Emails and everything at the moment, A pub burned down just around the corner from me last week and it had a lot of mobile phone transmiters on the roof and I think that is causing my problems, I'm using a mobile broadband dongle and it's had a very bad signal since the fire and I've had problems with my connection ever since, I only put the 2 together today when I went past and saw all the phone transmiters being moved out of the rubble, I think that might be where my problem is.
#6
02 Sep 2009 @ 21:37
ddp
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moved to correct forum as not a video software discussion issue.
mistycat, forget to do something?
mistycat, forget to do something?
#9
02 Sep 2009 @ 23:48
mistycat
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I thought so at first but then changed my mind about it being that if your referring to piracy and as far as it being in the wrong location, didn't think there'd be more than a couple of post's. Other than that, I'm kind of dense about seeing anything.
#10
03 Sep 2009 @ 5:51
What? have I done or said something wrong? have I posted this in the wrong place? if so, I'm sorry but I'm pretty new to this and am trying to learn so if I am doing something wrong I would be greatful if I could be pointed in the right direction and given any advice because that is the reason I am on this site, I was told this was the best place to go for computer and gaming advice.
#11
03 Sep 2009 @ 11:59
mistycat
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I think it may be regarding posting in the wrong section, it was definitely in the wrong section. It was the word offensive that threw me off, guess I took it too literal. As far as help with anything CD/DVD related, AD is the place to be. I have been on some forum's where the sarcasm would knock your sock's off if you dared ask anything thought to be too newbieish (is that a word), not here. That's one of the reason's I like it plus the information available is incredible. Should add: a lot more info than CD/DVD too.
This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 03 Sep 2009 @ 15:00
#12
03 Sep 2009 @ 12:13
Ok, thanks, I'll make sure I double check that I'm in the right forum in future.
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