Roger Pearse

I wonder if someone can help me retrieve an distinctly forum-related item being offered by this mechanism? I've never done a Torrent transfer, and don't really know what I'm doing.

If you can help, especially if you do these all the time and have a nice fast connection, please drop me a private message or else email me on roger_pearse@yahoo.co.uk.

Many thanks!

All the best,

Roger Pearse

thedistillers

1. Download utorrent. www.utorrent.com

2. Download / Open the .torrent file you want, using utorrent.

3. Enjoy.

Roger Pearse

Many thanks. Actually I tried that before I posted, and nothing happened. I think my ISP may be blocking torrent traffic.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

blues runner

It's pretty rare for any decent ISP to completely block bittorrent traffic. They may throttle it, affecting speeds (quite indecent), but a complete block of legal content by a reputable ISP is rare.

Go to dslreports, select the flash8 plugin speed test and see if it lists anything untoward about your ISP. It should show who your ISP is. Google and see if they're known to do anything suspect concerning torrents.

You said nothing happened. Is the torrent file you want to download even appearing in uTorrent? Try other torrents as well, always choose files with a strong, positive seed to leecher ratio (healthy files).

Roger Pearse

I'm outside the US, tho.

blues runner

International Speed Tests

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http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/
http://myspeed.visualware.com/
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/
http://www.bandwidthtest.co.uk/

xaxxat

Some ISP's do traffic shaping which blocks torrents.

Some sites require that certain torrent proggies be used. Azureus and utorrent are the preferred choices.

Some require that a certain range of ports be used (set your proggy to use one from 49152 through 65535) I use 55555 for all of mine.

Some personal firewalls will block common torrent ports - these can be exceptioned by the user.

Try using a download manager: http://www.freedownloadmanager.org
Pick your torrent and instead of left clicking, right click and use the download manager. It will hammer away until it grabs the torrent file sucessfully. After it's on your computer, run it and your client should start downloading.

Have fun...

Roger Pearse

Thanks everyone. A friend now has the file; and we're trying to work out how to send a 170Mb file to me!

All the best,

Roger Pearse

DCHindley

Keep in mind that torrents don't download quickly like FTP transfers. It can take all day at times, or even longer of there aren't a lot of seeders (folks online who have that file available). If the file is arcane, you might at times download 98% of it and then have to wait a day or two until the only other person in the world interested in the subject logs on and has the file available to the torrent client.

If there is concern in your country or region about ISP liability in cases where copyrighted materials are transferred on torrents passing through their peer-to-peer servers, they might simply block all of them. This is more likely with a small regional ISP than with larger ones. Also more likely with dial-up and even DSL ISPs than with Cable ISPs.

I use BitTorrent on a cable ISP. Personally, I don't like it when the program automatically changes registry values to enable the client 100% of the time (you are always seeding programs) at boot-up, so I have disabled the startup value in the registry through MSCONFIG. When I download something, the client program remains in memory as a TSR until you disable it or turn the computer off. I usually let it stay active and seed for a day or so and then disable the process in Task Manager. If you use a Mac, I cannot help.

DCH