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I don't understand torrents.

post #1 of 55
12/20/09 at 5:32pm
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No one has ever been able to explain this system to me in a way I could understand, and it's immensely frustrating because it is apparently the only legitimate way to download anything, and I am hopeless at using it. Assistance is much hoped for from someone who does know how this thing functions.

Why is it that I currently have 61, 42 and 40 seeders respectively on the three torrents I am trying to download, and yet nothing is downloading?
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post #2 of 55
12/20/09 at 5:37pm
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post #3 of 55
12/20/09 at 5:43pm
I effing lol'd.

JD, I have no idea what the hell these are either. All my friends use them to steal albums, but I have no idea how they work.
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post #4 of 55
12/20/09 at 5:43pm
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Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7 View Post

I'm 24
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post #5 of 55
12/20/09 at 5:46pm
I don't understand them either. Conne explained them to me once, but he only made it more confusing. That fuckin idiot.
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post #6 of 55
12/20/09 at 5:48pm
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People are downloading things from me pretty fast, but I am downloading nothing. This is inequitable and upsetting. Help, geeks!
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post #7 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:23pm
Just go into the torrent properties and decrease the maximum upload rate to the min (3 kb/s or smthg) and set the maximum download rate to 'default'
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post #8 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by JD_May View Post
No one has ever been able to explain this system to me in a way I could understand, and it's immensely frustrating because it is apparently the only legitimate way to download anything, and I am hopeless at using it. Assistance is much hoped for from someone who does know how this thing functions.

Why is it that I currently have 61, 42 and 40 seeders respectively on the three torrents I am trying to download, and yet nothing is downloading?

Are you sure it's not a private tracker? That means one that you have to register for.

Also you may want to force encryption in your settings. I heard in the States you can actually get sued for this shit.
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post #9 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:33pm
It's a way of sharing files. Torrents connect you to all the other people downloading and uploading. You don't only download a torrent, you also upload the pieces of the file you've downloaded while downloading. It works well, but you have to have enough people seeding the file in order to download at good speeds. It also depends on how many people are downloading the file.
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post #10 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:37pm
Well, here is a basic explanation using an analogy.

Imagine that I have a book that you want. I can send you one page at a time. I can also send one page at a time to some other people. This would be a serial distribution. One page at a time, in order to each person requesting the book.

A torrent splits the book up into pages as well. But instead of requesting only one page at a time from one person, a torrent requests one sort of random page from every person that has the book. Then, it looks at the page numbers, and puts them in order to package all those pages into a book.

So a torrent is many different pages at one time from many people with the book.
This is much faster than doing one page at a time from one person with the book.
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post #11 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:41pm
How can someone not understand torrenting? I guess it's you chumps that keep the musicians/film industry in business
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post #12 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:42pm
And obviously, bit torrent technology is only used for the sharing of open source, publicly licensed, types of material. . . e.g. linux ISO images and other such software under licenses like GPL.
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post #13 of 55
12/20/09 at 6:53pm
Fuck torrents. Rapidshare/Megaupload/Newsgroups ftw
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post #14 of 55
12/20/09 at 9:02pm
Use PeerGuardian.
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post #15 of 55
12/20/09 at 9:04pm
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Fuck torrents.

Rapidshare/Megaupload/Newsgroups ftw

no. no. no.
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