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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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krn5968
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20. May 2006 @ 11:38 |
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ok i downloaded all the episodes of the show i wanted off bittorrent. the next question is, im trying to find a thread that will teach me my final step.
i want to take my video files. which are labeled as 'video clips' on to a cd so i can play it on my dvd player. quesition is, how do i do this and which cd do i use? the cd-r and DVD-R and all the stuff gets me confused.
so does anyone know the thread which im looking for?
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bigsalmon
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23. May 2006 @ 11:12 |
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Hi
I hav been trying to get bittorrent working for days.
I have windows xp sp2
Zona Alarm Pro
DLink 524 Wireless router
I have changed and opened ports, configured firewall, set a static ip and nothing seems to work. I get downloads of around 5kBps.
I am in New Zealand and have a 3megabit connection with 128kbps upload.
I have set my maximum upload for 9.
Plz can u help
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25. May 2006 @ 21:20 |
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bigsalmon,
Did you try different bittorrent clients, or are you only trying with one client? It might be as easy as finding which one works. If this applies to you, here's a small pool of clients to choose from.
BitComet
uTorrent
Azureus
BitTornado
Each has its own website where the corresponding client can be downloaded.
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25. May 2006 @ 21:42 |
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@bigsalmon
Download the pdf from the first link in my sig...it answers pretty much all normal issues, complete w/ pretty pictures.
And...I'm sure I can get you sorted out, but I never check this thread, so start a new one or PM me.
@krn
Look under the "guides" tab @ the top of this page. If you're wanting something very simple to turn your clips into dvd's, you'll need a dvd burner and blank dvd's, plus some software. PRobably the easiest for you would be dvdsanta, followed by Nero Vision Express. WinAvi would work too, basically whatever you can get software for. Anyway, check under that "guides" tab. And, if that doesn't help you, PM me or start a new thread, I never look @ this one.
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biggermac
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25. May 2006 @ 21:49 |
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bigsalmon (Newbie)writes: Hi. I hav been trying to get bittorrent working for days.
I have windows xp sp2
Zona Alarm Pro
DLink 524 Wireless router
I have changed and opened ports, configured firewall, set a static ip and nothing seems to work. I get downloads of around 5kBps.
I am in New Zealand and have a 3megabit connection with 128kbps upload.
I have set my maximum upload for 9.
Plz can u help
If you did set it to work with your router's firewall and of course a software firewall if you do run one, you are still going to have problems.. Here is the reason: the P2P torrent style of filesharing was written so that you have to participate in the circle with uploading well in order to download well. This simple rule helps stop the "leech" phenomenon that can occur with the more standard P2P type of filesharing.
Sorry to say while your download speed is very good at 3000 kbps, your upload speed is only 128 kbps. And 128 kbps is only double that of dial-up speed. 128 kbps = a mere 16 KB/s (a large B = Bytes, small b = bits, and 8 bits = 1 Byte). So the torrents think you are holding back on upload speed and thus your download speed suffers.
If you find a very popular torrent, say one that has like 30 or 40 seeds and 150 peers, you might do OK.
One thing to remember - setting your upload speed in your torrent program is in KB/s in what I have seen. You must not indicate your full upload potential, because the torrent program needs about 20% of your upload bandwidth to work in. If your upload speed is 16 KB/s, then 80% off that 12 KB/s or maybe could get by with 13 KB/s.
I think about 250 kbps upload speed and up is OK. Maybe only 200 kbps up, but 128 kbps is not good... You users ought to band together and ask that your ISP slow down your download speed to 2 Mbps and give you a little bit more bandwidth in the upload department..
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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BiGgRiE
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1. June 2006 @ 13:26 |
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I have been dealing with the 99.9% issue for about a month now and have gotten around it with some success. However this success has been pure luck for I have no idea how I did it. The only thing I know is that when it happens I hit the restart button on my pc and when I boot up and open Azureus the files that were at 99.9% are now seeding. My new issue is this; for some of these files when I try to extract the files contained within the folder it tells me that the file is corrupt. Most recently I've downloaded a PC Game, extracted the image file, mounted it, installed it, ran it fine and can still run it fine. But when I boot into another xp install on my system and try to install the game from the same Image file I originally used I get an error stating the the file installed doesn't match the source file and that the medium from which I am installing may be corrupted or damaged and to contact the vendor. Now I would be the first one to chalk this up to a simple case of corruption if it were not for the fact that I installed and played the game from the exact same file.
Any insight as to what may be causing this error is greatly appreciated.
Thanx,
~~RiE~~
All wil fear the wrath of Ogami Otto's Blade, the assasin by the river stixx
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1. June 2006 @ 17:14 |
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Great thread!!! One question, I have done everything posted about upload speed, # of uploaders per torrent etc...but I dont know what to do about dl speed. According to dsl reports, I have a 2300Kbps second connection, so do I put the whole speed after converted to KBps or a fraction of it like i did the upload speed?? Thx for the help:)
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biggermac
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1. June 2006 @ 20:27 |
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svtstang (Member) writes: Great thread!!! One question, I have done everything posted about upload speed, # of uploaders per torrent etc...but I dont know what to do about dl speed. According to dsl reports, I have a 2300Kbps second connection, so do I put the whole speed after converted to KBps or a fraction of it like i did the upload speed?? Thx for the help:)
Rule of thumb is to use in a torrent program no more than 80% of all you have.
If your upload speed is 250 kbps, it doesn't matter when you convert to KB/s, just remember the rule to add in 80% of your known max upload speed.
Since torrent programs like to use KB/sbut ISPs usually use kbps, 80% of 250 kbps 200 kbps, b=bits.. Divide that 200 kbps by 8 with B=Bytes for KB/s, which is 25 (25 KB/s). Use 25 as your upoad speed.
The program needs to use that extra 20% to work in.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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biggermac
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1. June 2006 @ 20:34 |
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BiGgRiE, I have not been active recently, but you must be aware there are people out there trying to screw you, and that means some with ties to the motion picture industry, the music industry, etc.. Having 99% means there was not one person in your circle of filesharers who had a complete copy by the time you got there - what it means is there was one or more guys with 99% and that's as far as you can go.. But the torrent program hangs onto it in the hopes that the exact sdame copy comes up again in the future - somehow your routine is getting the wrong copy of the same torrent to try to complete..
If you save the torrent to disk before began the download and are interupted, all you need do a few days later is to double-click on the torrent from your hard drive, and if the thing is still going on, it will start from where you left off..
If you get involved in a torrent that starts out only hsving one or two seeds theres a greater chance the completed file filesharer/seed will leave..
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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BiGgRiE
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2. June 2006 @ 05:43 |
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Biggermac; thanks for the reply. That explains the 99% issue but any thoughts on the rest of my post ie; files not extracting after having installed and currently being able to run the game from the very same file? Additionally won't the torrent finish once it becomes available if I just leave it at 99.9%? I mean I save all of my torrent files to the very same directory on my storage drive that the actual files the torrents represent will reside once they've been downloaded.
example:
[www.anyserver.org]anygametorrent.torrent = torrent file
[www.anyserver.org]anygame = file folder which contains the content
both on my storage drive in a folder called Azureus.
All wil fear the wrath of Ogami Otto's Blade, the assasin by the river stixx
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biggermac
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2. June 2006 @ 09:44 |
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BiGgRiE (Newbie) wrote: Additionally won't the torrent finish once it becomes available if I just leave it at 99.9%?
I use BitTornado, so I can say that though the torrent-grabbing programs are similar, they aren't exactly alike. In BitTornado I believe there is a time limit for holding onto an incomplete. And why would you stay connected if you are stuck at 99%? Someone may never re-seed.
It works this way - your incomplete torrent can not complete unless the exact same seed that was formatted for upload a certain way and is exact becomes available again. You might see several copies of the same (freeware) game available, but if they are not an original copy of the original seed you started downloading one of those to try and complete your 99% file, bytes and bits and even file sizes will most likely be off the mark if somehow you do manage to coax your program to download a different copy and tack on that last 1%.. And that last 1% will corrupt the game file.
I do not think it is an Azureas problem. There might be a push by an agency to screw with filesharers these days. I 've used one of two torrent search engines when I was downloading and not from joining/signing-up from any website - this means that probably 25% of what I try to retrieve from the torrent-search-engine website are from protected sites and I can't begin the download, so I move on to the next.
Maybe try a different torrent-grabbing program - I recommend BitTornado, for it's simplicity. When you 1st install it, un-tick "automatic" and tick in either slow or fast DSL/Cable, at which point values are put in two boxes which are "upload speed" and "connections", and then you can adjust them (connections leave at 4 until you know if 5 or 6 might work better. And upload speed you know to enter in 80% of your maximum and it will refle3ct being in KB/s and not kbps).
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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2. June 2006 @ 10:59 |
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thx biggermac. I understand the part about 80% of ur max upload speed, but i still dont know what to put in fir download speed. Utorrent asks for the downlaod as well as the upload speeds, so what should i put in?
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biggermac
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2. June 2006 @ 13:55 |
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> thx biggermac. I understand the part about 80% of ur max upload
> speed, but i still dont know what to put in fir download speed.
> Utorrent asks for the downlaod as well as the upload speeds, so
> what should i put in?
1st I will say that no two torrents will be the same download speed. Actually you are getting pieces from others who like you also have a limited upload speed, so really what is happening your program is combining others uploads to simulate what you thin k is as fast as you are downloading (like multi-tasking 5 different uploads to you at a time then putting these together for an eventually and seamless perfect file - hopefully). Also, no matter how good a torrent is as far as very good participation or poor participation, you start out really slow and it builds up.
Your 2300 kbps download max is just about the best you will ever get. Most of the time you will not. If you can get 1000 kbps with a torrent you should be happy, but if you grab stuff with a few seeds and 10 peers you will be lucky to get 400 kbps. I've achieved a bit over 2000 kbps (same as 250 KB/s or 2 Mbps) a few times but that means a very popular torrent with like at least 30 seeds at and 80 peers or more.. (A 2nd cheapo used P3 on your home network might be in order if you do a lot of downloading)..
But to answer your question, in the case of download you can leave it at unlimited (I usually don't recommend leaving anything at unlimited but OK here). Or just enter in your max of 2300 kbps (that's about 280 KB/s) - no percentage reduction needed). Or if you do other stuff while torrenting and surf or other web activities you might want to specify less than your max, but like i said very rarely would you reachyour mac download capability anyway..
Remember - green light = good, yellow light = firewall problem.. (give it a few minutes to give a green light from yellow).
The lvlord fix is mesnt to help with your more standard P2P filesharing, but you might want to run in. Win XP SP2, because of WORMS, has limited the number of 1/2 connections to 10.. Don't ask me what that means, I think it's sent out but no reply. But anywho, it might help to pick up a new supplier of torrent part quicker if you lose one, but I don't say I know what I am talking about .. (Google for: lvlord)
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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2. June 2006 @ 14:07 |
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Thx so much Biggermac, u definintely know ur stuff:)
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Iceminx
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2. June 2006 @ 14:22 |
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I have noticed, using bittorrent, that at a higher speed (upload / download)my computer had restarted for some apparent reason. If anyone has ever suffered this issue, please respond.
I am taking a look at a couple of reasons:
My motherboard has an automatic reboot sequence in the BIOS when the CPU temperature reaches a certain degree...
For this one reason, I have become very wary about download speeds, number of client connections, firewall interferance with bittorrent protocol over the net, harddrive --> memory (and vice versa) for storing the chunks, and CPU utilization for handling the torrent file.
Speed is always good! Bittorrent was designed with alot of factors in mind. My OS is a windows xp, 768 MB RAM, and an Athalon 3000xp processor. This is probably not the case for many torrent users who use the "top of the line" pc's. But, overall and relating to this topic of "How do u make BitTorrent download faster", I think a good answer is: OS, Connection Speed, Firewall configuration, and definitely your hardware.
Due to these reasons, it becomes harder to answer these type of questions without knowing more about each individual user.
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biggermac
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2. June 2006 @ 14:56 |
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> My OS is a windows xp, 768 MB RAM, and an Athalon 3000xp
> processor. This is probably not the case for many torrent users
> who use the "top of the line" pc's.
I use a 2 year old (32 bit) Athlon 3200+. Your 3000 (xp??) should be a great processor though I am not familiar with the xp designation. For quite a while the Athlon 3000s were a gamers choice for being inexpensive yet handled games well. You cannot look at an AMD processor's GHz value and thing because my 3200+ is running at 2.2 GHz that means it is only as fast as a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz. Some things the Athlon does quite well and what games use in a processor is what Athlons do well. I believe AMD named them so you would know what to compare to in the Intel Pentium line - meaning a 3200+ = a 3.2 GHz Pentium.
Even if all you had was 500 MBs of RAM you shouldn't be crashing.i had an old Dell P2 laptop running at only 400 MHz, but it was a great coffee shop WiFi machine, and it ram Windows XP Pro with get this - 128 MBs of RAM. Your computer reserves part of your hard disk in case it even needs more RAM and can use it instead of RAM.
Crashing: I added a 512 memory chip about a year ago from what I think is a repuatable maker (Patriot). What happened a bit later is that my computer would crash, but only occasionaly, like every 2 days or as little as once a week. I thought I'd installed some program badly or a byte got corrupted somewhere. I finally ran a memory test and sure enough, 15 minutes in, the series of tests at that point it started running were coming in bad.. Patriot replaced it of course.
I now run with a 1 meg chip plus a 1/2 meg chip in the 2nd slot. But your 768 MBs is good, even for some top of the line games if you have a good video card (like a nVidia 6600 GT, even the 128 MBs RAM on board can run rings around some other Vid cards carry twice as much RAM).
So, I'd find a memory test somewhere to check your RAM with just in case it is that.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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Iceminx
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2. June 2006 @ 17:41 |
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Thanks for not making my pc seem obsolete. I have run memory checks, software scans (spyware, adware, malware... etc.) and this is not likely the culprit. OS is pretty much like anyone on MS pro team.
The only thing I know is that creating multi-links to other peoples torrent sections requres CPU power... storing that data in "chunks" requires memory, and that memory needs a disk to write to. My pc has only rebooted when downloading in an "off the limit" rate. This is why I responded to this forum, speed is not always the best reason to download a torrent. Although you might have never ran into this problem, I caution those who do not monitor their CPU usage.
Personally, I have my days pretty much occupied (you know ... a bum job), but when downloading material, I opt for the choice of "patient" and "conscience". Find a good reliable, dependable, and nice site... find the torrents you seek, and finally wait till the download completes. A couple of days on a "1mb line" - "Getting a beta Operating System" and installing it might end up screwing you over good material and rightous data... just because you wanted to be the first in trying out the new stuff.
My experience - June 2006
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2. June 2006 @ 17:43 |
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Thx again Biggermac, my speeds haved jumped up to 125KBps, with 10 seeders and 40 leechers, aprreciate it:)
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biggermac
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2. June 2006 @ 21:33 |
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> Thx again Biggermac, my speeds haved jumped up to 125KBps,
> with 10 seeders and 40 leechers, aprreciate it:)
Well "seeds" and "peers".. Anyway that's how I see it. I always thought, but of course could be mistaken, that a "leech" is what happens on other P2P type of networks - example: a guy that downloads music but options to not make available any music or any files he has on his hard drive. (of course we are talking non-copyrighted material here, right?). With torrents technically you couldbe a leech I am supposing, but then if you set 0 as your upload speed I'd think you'd trickle in maybe as much as 1 KB/s.. or maybe none at all, I've never tried it.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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flirch
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6. June 2006 @ 11:06 |
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I used to be like everyone here, I had problems with my router and i didnt know how to fix it, i looked around for awhile and found this miraculous site. They will fix your torrent problems with your router.
Just click the link, select the model router you have and follow the instructions for the port forwarding. It worked for me and MOST likely it will work for you
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/router...
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allstar23
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6. June 2006 @ 12:18 |
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i tried portforward.com too. but its so vague and dosnt tell u exactly wht to do. i have sbc yahoo dsl. and a 1701hg 2wire router. can sum1 plz help me open the port or whtever for utorrent?
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flirch
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6. June 2006 @ 12:34 |
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dude it tells u exactly what to do. maybe u should try it again?
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allstar23
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6. June 2006 @ 14:52 |
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i did. i tried figuring it out 3 times. mayb its bcuz its different 4 2wire
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biggermac
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6. June 2006 @ 14:58 |
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allstar23 (Junior Member) writes: i tried portforward.com too. but its so vague and dosnt tell u exactly wht to do. i have sbc yahoo dsl. and a 1701hg 2wire router. can sum1 plz help me open the port or whtever for utorrent?
A router, which is a firewall - a hardware firewall, lets you have a network (several computers, one highspeed connection). In most people's cases, as in my case, it is my own home network. Then you're usually running a software firewall also, with or without a router. A firewall restricts incoming through ports, but usualy lets outgoing out.
A good torrent program has a colored light warning system - does uTorrent tell you that you have a firewall problem? I've heard of some DSL modems also being firewalls. If so, like with a router, you have to login to the router (usually through an ID and password) to get a menu, and find where to "port forward". If your DSL modem is a firewall modem then you better get busy Googling for more information. You posted very minimal information.
By default, torrent programs use certain ports.
Quote from a web page:
Prior to version 3.2, BitTorrent by default uses ports in the range of 6881-6889. As of 3.2 and later, the range has been extended to 6881-6999. (These are all TCP ports).
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But you don't need to use all of those, and why would you use any since to a ISP it's kind of obviuous what you're doing with those ports, and you never know, they might mess with them. If uTorrent does not allow the use of any ports you want (there are about 65000 of them) then find one that will. I use ports over 55000. I recommend BitTornado, for it's simplicity. You need only specify one port to use and not a port range with BitTornado, because you should only be downloading one torrent at a time (until you know when 2 might be better, which is not often)...
Is that it?.. "open a port"? Are you sure that's what you need, or do you know nothing and you are just guessing?
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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6. June 2006 @ 15:20 |
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Are you sure that's what you need, or do you know nothing and you are just guessing?
lol;) had to come back to thank you 1 more time biggermac, ur suggestions made all the diference:)
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