bit torrents
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andygo

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7,414 posts

286 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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What is a good site to get a bit torrent from? Don't know a lot about them and am a bit hesitant to dive in without a recommendation...

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

285 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Depends what of..

mininova.org, torrentspy etc.

rich 36

13,739 posts

297 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Whats the procedure with these,

I use limewire for my songs all the time
but they download in the time it takes to play them,

films take longer, and what dio i do when its apparently completed
once I tried it and every time i tried to watch what I'd patiently waited for

all I got was a message saying the format was not recognized or some such.

Could someone put it in laymans terms please

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

285 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Films are encoded in a number of formats (codecs) depensd if you have the right one installed then most players should be able to play it.

F.M

5,816 posts

251 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Your completed download should move into your `my downloads` folder when it`s done...
I like U torrent simple as can be...

rich 36

13,739 posts

297 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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F.M said:
Your completed download should move into your `my downloads` folder when it`s done...
I like U torrent simple as can be...


right then here we go, oh
is it free?

F.M

5,816 posts

251 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Yes indeed...just google it...I used to use bit torrent which worked well but it updated to the new one which I never got used too...and there are too many previous versions to find the one I liked...

Ive been downloading early 80`s Rothmans Porsche races including the last ever world sports car race at the nurburgring all week....superb stuff.....

www.racing-underground.com/index.ru?cls=2


Edited by F.M on Sunday 18th February 20:26

stigproducts

1,730 posts

302 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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rich 36

13,739 posts

297 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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OK,
just installed their exe and am downloading 'Deliverance'

At the end of transfer, what will happen,
does it appear in a library on utorrent (like limewire)

as I never noticed a destination for downloads in their installation guide
like c/my docs/utorrentfiles
where do you keep your stuff, do you move it afterwards?

freddies_dad

12,689 posts

288 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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sstein

6,249 posts

285 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Yep, torrentscan is the best one, lets you search all the sites from there

Also you should use Utorrent for downloading as it lets you encrypt the traffic, if I dont use this my ISP and a few of my mates ISPs limits the downloads to certain times of the day / or 25kbps!!!!

With Utorrent adn encryption turned on I get over 600kbps!

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Stuart

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

265 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Please ensure that your share ratio for each file is 1 or above.

If you don't share, the other people you're connected to will 'remember' that, and won't be so eager to share with you again.

What it means is that if you have a good share ratio, then downloading other things in future will be much much faster.

mrv

2,748 posts

259 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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rich 36 said:
Whats the procedure with these,

I use limewire for my songs all the time
but they download in the time it takes to play them,

films take longer, and what dio i do when its apparently completed
once I tried it and every time i tried to watch what I'd patiently waited for

all I got was a message saying the format was not recognized or some such.

Could someone put it in laymans terms please




Try VLC player its a free down load and if it cant play the film then theres nothing out there that can

F.M

5,816 posts

251 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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rich 36 said:
OK,
just installed their exe and am downloading 'Deliverance'

At the end of transfer, what will happen,
does it appear in a library on utorrent (like limewire)

as I never noticed a destination for downloads in their installation guide
like c/my docs/utorrentfiles
where do you keep your stuff, do you move it afterwards?


You can right click it and open it once the torrent reaches 100%...or find it in My documents/"My downloads" folder on your HD...where it will remain unless you move it.
..unless you want to seed the movie after downloading, you can remove the torrent file from U torrent and the downloaded movie will remain in the my download folder..

morningside

24,147 posts

260 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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I use Yet Another Bittorrent Client as a download manager.

rich 36

13,739 posts

297 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Began downloading a film 30 minutes ago
and according to 'transfers' as opera calls them,
its now comleted a paltry
1 or 2 %



is that normal?

jagdpanther

19,633 posts

250 months

Sunday 18th February 2007
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Ive been using a mixture of torrent spy to find files and Azureus to download them

sstein

6,249 posts

285 months

Monday 19th February 2007
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rich 36 said:
Began downloading a film 30 minutes ago
and according to 'transfers' as opera calls them,
its now comleted a paltry
1 or 2 %



is that normal?


Depends how quick / slow your, and the senders, connection is.

I find some movies take days, some movies i get in a few hours.

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Stuart

sstein

6,249 posts

285 months

Monday 19th February 2007
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Also I get quicker connections using UTorrent, anything else my ISP limits the speed to 25kbps which for a 780MB movie would take forever!

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Stuart

Plotloss

67,280 posts

301 months

Monday 19th February 2007
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I use isohunt.com, thepiratebay.org and mininova.org for torrents and have recently switched to utorrent from bitcomet client wise.

No idea why but utorrent races along, even with encryption off, got Casino Royale yesterday in an hour.