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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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hoaxbox
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29. November 2005 @ 06:16 |
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damn all these threads about the same problem,..
ive used torrent tech in the past 3 years.. had problems with firewalls,routers,sp2 clients and upload rates,... all the above
am using bitcomet now,.. used Azureus for about a year and am back 2 bitcomet now,..my connection is 2mb cable down and 256kbs up
sharing my connection with 2 other guys,..thru a cable router
download rates can get up2 210kbs but average on 80kbs depending on the generosity of peers..
normally leech with 7kbs upload
xp firewall disabled, tcpip patched and thats about it,..
no complanes,..
just thought id share the info might help
bleh bleh
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3. December 2005 @ 18:23 |
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I'm using bit torrent for 2 years and what i learned about it is fisrt to config your firewall, Nat to get better speed (check first post to know how)
if after you know that everything is fine, meaning that firewall, NAT config have been made and working. But still your speed isn't fast enough for you and you know that you can go faster. (for those who don't know there speed try http://www.speedtest.nl/TestSuite/TestController.asp?TestTypeID=,8,12,
you'll know your speed with that (speed depend on your conection type and server. if you try it when almost everyone is online (after work or weekend night) it might be a little slower
always remember that speed is related to number of user on the server
it's the same for bit torrent
what i mean by that is always get tracker that got a good ratio of seed leecher (cause seed are thoose who got all the download so they just give the file, leecher are thoose who dowload they give some of the download but they suck up speed of seed)
1 last thing cause bittorent is a sharing protocol you need to share to download something always share like 1/6 of your connection total speed (calculate it with your speed test result) exemple if your speed is 120k/sec share around 24k/sec you should get almost maximum speed minus your share
always keep in mind that most of bit torrent client use share rating
meaning the more you share the faster you'll download
So when you finish a downoad don't remove it right away let other download it cause you'll be a seed and torrent need seed to survive
if everyone left there download be a seed for a while everyone will download faster and you won't have anymore post of i get slow speed help me!
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felixfox
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9. December 2005 @ 08:30 |
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well ive read some of the earlier posts here but none of them seem to help me.
-i have bittorrent and the accelerator but i only get 1-2kbs download and 2-6kbs upload. I need help i dont know what to do and im really frustrated. If someone could tell me what to do i would really appreciate it. THX
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biggermac
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9. December 2005 @ 08:39 |
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Quote:
well ive read some of the earlier posts here but none of them seem to help me.
-i have bittorrent and the accelerator but i only get 1-2kbs download and 2-6kbs upload. I need help i dont know what to do and im really frustrated. If someone could tell me what to do my email is thadeasrodolphus@hotmail.com and i am also available on msn and aol messengers. THX
C'mon. Give us a break. You log in once and then want special door to door treatment, with private messages or emails?
Besides which you post absolutely nothing of what kind of connection that you have, and nothing about what max speeds (up and down) it is capable of. And nothing about what settings you have tried. Nothing about nothing. Reply here in this thread with some of the above.
A suggestion - try getting it to work well without the accelerator befor you try to add it's features.
But I suppose that you won't see this message because you are off administering to your country's citizen's needs, and can't be bothered checking in here - I don't suppose you ticked the box that informs you of a new message posted in this forum?
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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felixfox
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9. December 2005 @ 08:46 |
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well thx for the reply altho i wasnt that helpful anyway these are my settings
Uplaoding= dsl/cable slow upload rate is set at 13 kB/s and max upload rate is set at 19
I have a cable connection and use a router
Download= rate seting is at unlimited UpnP is at type 1 fast and default download rate is at 0
anything else you need?
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9. December 2005 @ 08:52 |
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@ felixfox.
U should take ur email off the thread, big no, no.
As for ur d/l's, read all the guides and stickied posts and threads about bt, abundance of info already here ;-D
No sig for u!.
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biggermac
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9. December 2005 @ 08:59 |
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> Uplaoding= dsl/cable slow upload rate is set at 13 kB/s and max
> upload rate is set at 19
> I have a cable connection and use a router
> Download= rate seting is at unlimited UpnP is at type 1 fast and
> default download rate is at 0
> anything else you need?
#1 rule of torrents - you must upload well to be able to download well - you must share "well". Those that won't share thewir upload bandwidth are punished - the programs are written that way.
19 KB/s = 152 Kbps. That should be on the edge of being OK, but till it's slow. If yu are sure that your max upload rate is that, set the torrent program to 80% of 19 KB/s. Sounds like you have come close.
A router is a firewall. YYou need to punch holes in it. YTou need to "port forward" those same ports that you are using in bittorrent. I suggest using a program that is not locked into using certain ports. Try BitTornado if BitTorrent does not allow you to get away from ports 8990 or whatever they are. Set the port to high, like 55000 or more (or port rqange) and refelct in your router firewall that you have done so.
And if you have UPnP turned on, make sure in your router it is on also (I run with UPnP off by the way).
Also I assume you run Windows XP2 firewall or some other software firewall. Make sure in your software firewall you port forward those ports used too, or exclude the whole torrent program from that firewall.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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felixfox
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9. December 2005 @ 09:04 |
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biggermac
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9. December 2005 @ 09:48 |
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> my actual upload rate is 1Kb/s and download rate is also 1Kb/s i
> use bittornado already and have my firewall disabled.
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> here is a pic of my settings
See the yellow light in the picture you sent? Bitornado's yellow light usually indicates a firewall problem.
The way it works when I first cnnect I get a yellow light. After 5 or so minutes I usually go green.
HOwever - in the example you show there are 5 seeds and 7 peers. You might not be firewalled, it's perhh=aps because there are less than the minimum connections you seek (20 i think is default). I can't tell, but until you get enough of a piece of a torrent so that you too can begin to share, you will be very slow like that. That happenss to me but not 25 minutes into the download - it happens earlier.
I have seen some DSL modems also need to be messed with as far as ports. Yu say a cable connection, so I don't know. Have you tried a really popular torrent that has more seeds and a lot more peers?
Do not use that accelerator. Nt yet anyway. I get speeds download over 1 Mbps at times. (125 KB/s). But my upload max is 400 Kbps (50 KB/s).
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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biggermac
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9. December 2005 @ 09:54 |
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Crap - in the picture your port range is 10000 to 65000. Have you also told your router that? That is diabling the firewall all together just about, not a good idea. Use one port. That is it. One port for one torrent. try like 55578 start 55578 end. Tell your router that port for port forwarding. You telling me you disab;led all of those ports in the router?
I hope you understand that you have 2 firewalls - the router is a hardware firewall and then you run a software firwewall.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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hey, i have the same probles with bittorrent, i use Azureus and its very slow like 0.3 kb per second but i aslo use ares as my music downloader and i have downloaded full programs in less than an hour but i cant download some files in ares like (for example) xbox games, i want to know what is the problem with Azureus cuz with ares i can get high speed and with Azureus im screwed pz help me out
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biggermac
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9. December 2005 @ 10:02 |
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(A repost of mine)
OK guys, I am getting tired of repeating the same stuff over and and over again. Refer others back to this if you see them post general questions. I probably missed something basic I should have added....
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General Torrent Programs guideline.
This should cover most questions or problems you are having. I am not an expert. This is just from observations and from reading posts and trial and error.
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(1) What program to use
Use a torrent program that implements a colored light system (or other system) that informs you of status as you download. The two I know that use a colored light system (I am sure there are others) are BitTornado (I use), and Azureus. This is because most problems are a firewall problem and the user will have a yellow light - you want a green light.
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(2) Firewalls.
A firewall is a blocker or filter. You can send stuff outbound (upload), however they will block most ports for incoming (think of a port as a hole for stuff to get in and go out). Firewalls are now necessary because there is so much evil stuff written that is trying to harm your computer - it is just floating around on the Internet and trying and trying to find a hole to enter your computer.
Almost everyone runs a Program that is a Firewall (software firewall). But if you use a router, by the nature of it's duties, it becomes a hardware firewall. You can use a router and also run a software firewall, but running 2 software Firewalls will probably cause problems. Running a router only can be sufficient, but you do not get the bells and whistles a software firewall gives you. Example - For an old P3 running Windows 98 computer on my home network, no software firewall is used, the router seems to do OK as a firewall. And by the way if you download torrents regularly, you know they can take hours or all day, an old $80 computer like my Windows 98 one I just mentioned, even one at 500 MHz, is plenty good enough to download torrents so you don't tie up your main computer and have response slowdowns with it. Another Example (no bells & whistles) - The router firewall won't pop up a window and say "such and such tried to infiltrate your computer", nor will it say anything about outgoing that you never used before and are just using for the 1st time (it won't ask you if it is OK go ahead and let it connect)..
Port forwarding: this means open a port for incoming. So in reference to a torrent program, you must "port forward" in a firewall that port or those ports that your torrent program uses. Now you see, if you have a router (hardware firewall) and are running a software firewall as well, you must open up the ports used in both Firewalls not just one.
Now there is another way to open up ports. This is only for software Firewalls and only affects a software firewall.. You can just exclude your torrent exe program from the firewall. All ports will be open when you run the torrent. Here is an example - if you use Windows XP's firewall, click on control-panel/firewall, and you'll see one of the commands you can click is "Exceptions". In there listed are programs like Yahoo Messenger. You need to add your torrent program to the list.
Norton anti-virus 2005 .. Since I run Norton SystemWorks 2005 which has anti-virus in it, I know the anti-virus program itself runs a firewall, but it does not call it such. It probably asked you when you 1st installed Norton if it was OK to shut off the XP firewall (or any I suppose) and you probably ticked "OK do it". So, you've got to find where to add to exclude or ignore your torrent program if you didn't tell it OK before. (look for the "options' tab to be able to change/add things).
Finally on Firewalls and ports - don't use the default ports of 6881- 6889 (or whatever they are). There are 65000 port or so. Use a port or ports range above 20000. Me, I use ports in the 55000 range. If you only do one torrent at a time (recommended) you should only need to use one port (they call it a listening port I believe) and not a field of ports. (At least one port is all I need for BitTornado.). Plus rememeber - if you are using a router and especially used as your only firewall, then the more ports you forward, you increase the chances of some kind of a security breach when surfing the Internet.
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(3) Download one torrent at a time (until you become good at it and recognize when 2 at a time would work better).
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(4) never use any "automatic" setting.
For Example - In BitTornado by default the max upload speed is ticked to be automatic, so instead choose slow or fast DSL/cable which then will allow you to tweak the numbers it adds in the max upload speed box (and the max uploads or connections box). (See next for what numbers).
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(5) You must upload well to be able to download well
Very important rule: The whole peer to peer torrent style network is based on people not being able to "cheat", meaning you cannot choose to not share in the upload process and still be able to download fast. So remember that you must upload well to be able to download well. The faster you upload the faster you'll download (in theory).
I'd guess that most of us in the United States who have broadband (1/2 of computer users here perhaps??) can upload at 250 Kbps (31 KB/s) either with cable or fast DSL. I have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload and it's becoming more common (I have cable & 4000 Kbps down). When I had 250 kbps up (3000 down) I did OK, really, just abut as well as wiryh my higher speeds I have now.. THe DSL speeds and plans will vary a lot more than cable speeds and plans. There are different types of DSL that work a bit differently thaqn other types. Some people have DSL then find out they only have 350 Kbps download and 80 Kbps upload or something similar. OK for surfing quickly, but for torrents, not good. Since dial up is 56 kbps up and down, that 80 or 100 kbps upload you might have is not that much faster than dial-up.
Don't think because you have a 2000 kbps (2 Mbps or 225 KB/s) download rate or more means that you should be getting that when you download. Even with great upload speeds an average of 600 Kbps (75 KB/s) download speed is very good. Some really popular torrents, with seeds up the butt to like 50 seeds and 50 peers and you can get 1 Mbps download (1000 kbps / 125 KB/s). I've gotten 2 Mbps a few times. Once I hit 3 Mbps and I do not know what was going on there.
You actually are never downloading a solid speed - what you are doing is getting uploads from others and the torrent program combines the pieces. If you are getting a fast 1 Mbps download rate (125 KB/s) you are really getting uploads from several other computer sources which like you have limited upload rates..
Speeds will always be slow when you start out, and show a yellow light. You must get enough of a torrent to be able to begin to share before your upload speed starts going up, and after your upload speed starts going up give it a few minutes and your download speed should start to increase. You should get a green light after you have several people joined and start to upload faster (say maybe 5 minutes into the torrent).
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(6) Kbps, KB/s, Mbps - wtf is all of this?
(a) Kbps and KB/s are vastly different speeds or transfer rates. It is not the slash ( / ) that makes the difference, it is the large letter "B" Vs a small letter "b". OK remember B = Bytes and b = bits. It takes 8 bits to equal a byte. Everyone always used to use Kbps (bits) and the ISPs (Internet service providers) I've seen always use (appropriately so) Kbps too. I do not know how B and Bytes got started, but now everyone is confused. Torrent programs want speed entered in KB/s and your ISP tells you in Kbps. You must convert to put a value in a torrent program. Divide Kbps by 8 to get KB/s. If you have 200 Kbps upload then for the torrent program that is 25 KB/s.
-There is one more step though before you add in your max upload speed into a torrent program.
(b) Torrent programs need to use some upload bandwidth to work right. If you entered in all of your upload speed into the max-upload-speed box in the torrent program, it I going to choke when it reaches speed up past 80% of that. A rule of thumb is to only tell a torrent program 75% to 80% of what your actual upload speed really is. This leaves the extra 20% to the torrent program which needs it to work well in. OK. If you know you have 25 KB/s upload speed, 80% of that is 20 KB/s. Put 20 in the max upload speed box.
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(7) Maximum uploads (not maximum upload speed)
Leave this to 4 unless you know 5 or 6 might be better. (experiment later once you've gotten good download speeds). I'd say don't tick it up past 4 unless you have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload capability, but research more on this if you want to add more connections.
Still in reference to connections (or "max uploads" in BitTornado, and not "max upload speed") I am guessing here with a slight hint of knowledge but could be way off on this observation - I believe this is the number of computers you are uploading to at one time. And if for example, you upload at 25 KB/s, then 4 computers should be recieving from you about 6 KB/s each.. If you tick 5 connections then 5 computers get 5 KB/s each, however if you serve too many computers, each recieving less a chunk of good speed upload from you, it might effect the formula that the torrent programs use to determine if you are uploading well and then stiff you of download speed.
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(8) I believe older computer operating systems like the Windows 98 line does not understand UPnP. The torrent program might have UPnP turned on. Also in your router (if you use one of course) you might have UPnP on or off. It might be worth experimenting with these settings. I myself have shut off UPnP in my torrent program and in my router, and even on my Win XP computer it seemed to work well downloading a torrent.
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(9) Different torrents are going to be different speeds - even if you download two different ones in a row (one after the other was finished) and they had the exact same seeds and peers numbers, one might download at 800 Kbps (100 KB/s) and the other at 400 Kbps (50 KB/s), you never know.(
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(10) Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) tries to stop WORMs. Before they could proliferate with many connections at one time. In so doing this SP2 fix, it limits (I think) what might be called "half connections" to 10 (research this further yourself, terminology might be wrong on my part)). Unfortunately this causes havoc with older style P2P programs, and might effect your torrent speed too in such a way as that if you lose a computer in your group that was uploading to you, getting connected to another source might take a while, and you'll see your speeds vary a lot as you watch during a download. There is a so-called "fix" called the LVLord fix. Google "LVLORD". This fix involves entering automatically into your registry do be careful save your registry before you run it. You will get a warning when you run this fix, and if you get afraid and abort, of course the fix won't work.
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(11) Some settings you change might not go into effect until you close your torrent program and open it up again. For example in BitTornado on the main page I can change the upload max speed setting OK and it does into effect immediately, but if I changed on a 2nd page the ports used, that wouldn't go into effect until the next time I open BitTornado.
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9. December 2005 @ 10:15 |
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ok i just found this software called BT Engine though it's not free, but it actually jack up my speed pretty much.
http://www.soft4kids.com/
stop hoping, start loving.
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15. December 2005 @ 16:51 |
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Use bitcomet..
make sure you have DSL, CABLE, OR T1++ to get FAST downloads
if you have dialup or 56k or lower than just dont try.
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16. December 2005 @ 11:32 |
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If you plan on using registered trackers eg. TorrentLeech, TorrentBytes, etc. then I highly reccomend you don't use BitComet/BitLord, because it has difficulty disabling DHT, which is hell for the reg. trackers.
I seeded 2gb, and It only showed up as me upload 180mb because BitLord disconnected the tracker because DHT is always enabled :)
I do reccomend uTorrent though, really good speeds with very very little CPU/memory usage. Atm, it's using 4,200k and I'm downloading full speed!
-Mike
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evand36
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19. December 2005 @ 12:33 |
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hey,
not a total newb here, but not far off...sorry to say. ANYWAY. been reading this forum for the last two days...read all first 10 pages..and last few pages as well...need some help. Ill try to be brief. Been trying all kinds of torrent clients...BitComet, BitTornado, BitLord, Azureus...cant get d/l above 2/3 kbps. MOst of the time its 0 down..0 up.
Heres some info: For BitTornado
I get the GREEN light
I have a Netgear WGR614
I run on Rogers Yahoo High speed in Toronto w/ that Motorola Surfboard modem
I have tried portforwarding (6881-6889)..and today tried (55001-55009)
I do not have a software firewall
DId a speedtest at dslreports (2543 kbps down...375 up)
For max uploads i keep around 25 kbps
I keep the thing on dsl/cable slow setting
I keep max uploads at 4
I have changed the port range in tornado to coincide with my forwarded ports
I keep UPnP port forwarding off in Tornado AND in my router settings
and lastly...i keep max peer connections around 50...but its been on default for the longest time with no results
I also have tried BitTorrent Downlaod Accelerator PRo...nothing
SAme thing with all the other clients....hope i didnt miss anything
Think you can help me out? Anything would be great. Thanks
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evand36
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19. December 2005 @ 12:44 |
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almost forgot:
I run Windows XP Pro SP1...ive tried downloading on my laptop which runs SP2 to see if it makes any diff but it dont. And the windows firewall is disabled...
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19. December 2005 @ 12:47 |
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is your source public or private??
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evand36
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19. December 2005 @ 12:52 |
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damn...no idea what that means...r u talking about that "tracker" business?
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19. December 2005 @ 13:16 |
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where u get ur torrent
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evand36
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19. December 2005 @ 13:20 |
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i get all my torrents from torrentspy.com
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19. December 2005 @ 13:23 |
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thats ur problem.. find priv tracker
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evand36
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19. December 2005 @ 13:26 |
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great....so like....where do you get them?
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20. December 2005 @ 02:15 |
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P2P!
BitTorrent. etc.
Torrent sites - www.mininova.org, www.torrentleech.org, www.torrentbytes.net etc, search for more.
-Mike
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evand36
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20. December 2005 @ 06:29 |
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does this sound familiar? downloads and uploads usually stay at zero...they go up to maybeee...5/6 kB/s...stay for like 2 sec and count back down to zero. This repeats every couple min.....for like 2 hrs...HA
Its almost like the download starts making some ground...hits a wall...and immidiately starts counting down back to zero.
I left NFS Most wanted on over night, woke up this morning only to find it finihsed 7%...Got the torrent from a few different private trackers too...
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