Thrush

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Downloading a "perfectly legal uncopyrighted" file via torrents, and this particular one is now proper doing my nut in

2.02gb in total, so far have done 92.8% - but thats taken over 19hrs!

Now it just keeps dropping off My connection ain't the fastest, and at best I see 60-65 kbps, but this keeps dropping down to 0.0. Stop the torrent, then restart, and after a min or so it restarts downloading at 50/60 kbps, and then it just begins to drop, down down down down and hovers around 0.5 and then stops at 0.0 while the ETA just rises and rises and rises

WHY?

Fucking thing!

Sunil_FiestaRS1800

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with torrents someone has to be uploading the bit you want for you to download it. Its not like the file is uploaded somewhere and everyone downloads it.

BM08

as above, the job of your torrent programme is to download and put together all the segments of a certain file that its downloaded and if it cant get to a certain part of the file then thats it you come to a hault, but it doesnt happen very often

Physio

That's the thing with torrent's they keep swearing at you & being nasty

Wait a minute, that tourettes

Thrush

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ROFL @ AJ

Others : I know how torrents work And this one is not lacking in available files/pieces. Availability is at 1.948, which means there is 1 full version (all pieces) available there. 1 Seeder (of 2) connected, and 10 peers (of 22) connected, but it still keeps crashing!!!!

As I type it's fluctuating between 10 and 23 kbps, which is between 4hrs and 1.5hrs....



99% of all the other torrents I download sit there pretty much bang on 60kbps, and barely falter at all.....

PeterD

Could be a fooked tracker Thrush

Thrush

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EDIT : Just been fooking around with trackers - one wasn't working (5 trackers in there) so messing around one at a time, seems one on it's own is flitting between 15/20 and 30/40 kbs, peaking at 50ish....

Gonna leave it running on that for a bit see what happens... Fr the first time since this began it has an ETA of less than an hour (I say that, it's now just dropped to near 5kb and reverted back to best part of two hours eta :wall )

Hockney

If there is only one or 2 seeders Thrush thats your problem. You have reached where everyone else is stuck so the last bit will go slow especially if the seeders hasnt the best connection in the world or just dont want to share much of there bandwith. Good things come to those who wait

Smit

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Hail the hock!

If there is hardly anyone sharing it then you ain't going to get good rates! Just need a nice uploader but obvously none of the seeders/leechers have a good upload connection. hence why u are getting a totally whoop download rate

Thrush

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Hock - finally, both seeders are connected, and for about 30secs it ran at near 50kbps, but now dropped back to around 5 and under

The second torrent (virtually the same) has no seeds and only has .208 avail

CossieRich

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Thrush,

It is very frustrating when torrents do this, but please be honest and at least admit you are d/l porn instead of trying to look innocent

Thrush

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in the space of 30secs (again) gone from 60kbps, now at 0.0

Hockney

Best bet would be to stop the torrent and restart it again in a few hours and hopefully it'll have a few more seeds on there. Saves you watching a client all night getting frustrated

BTW what client are you using? On the bittornado client if you click the advance tab you should see the list of seeders/leechers, if you see someone with 100% just hightlight them and click "finish allocation" this will allow you to directly connect to the seeder and you should get the pieces direct from them and not others trying to download the torrent

Thrush

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Honestly, it's not porn

Thrush

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Had 2 seeds (of 2) but one just dropped off. Looking at the peer list, neither of the seeds actually seem to be uploading? Strange....

And it's uTorrent 1600

Hockney

There is a chance the seeders have set the upload limit low so they could be giving out say 10kb/s to around 20 of you to fight over

Thrush

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Hockney

Try installing another client and finishing it off with that as I dont rate utorrent one bit

Thrush

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TO be honest Hock, it took me so long to get uTorrent working (for ages it would only do sub 10kbs downloads) that I am reluctant to go through again

Hockney

That seeder is showing as being from a place called Moron in the South America and I;m guessing they wont have the greatest internet speeds in that part of the world

Thrush

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Moron