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[DJ Sl4m]

I just installed it and did a search on google for Bittorrent sites, and the best I can figure is every site is a pay to join search site ?

I'm looking for old school music I have on records, but without the scratchy sound that comes with using the records so much.
It would really be awesome to have my old school record collection available to me on my PC for remixing and just to enjoy with ease again.

Right now, I know absolutely nothing more than what I wrote about using bittorent other than I found a song link that I clicked, which saved to my PC as a .bittorrent file.
Once I clicked the file bittorrent opened up and started downloading the file (although extremely slow)

Am I missing somthing here, this just seems rather cumbersum, time consuming and tedious ?

Please, any help is really appreciated.

 

[DJ Sl4m]

Oh snap, I dont want to use this shit. it eats my bandwiwdth in the backround.

I just used bandwidth monitor pro, and found that it was constantly uploading something and it was being used in the backround so i didnt even see anything running.

I'm going to give newsgroups a try instead.

 

[Vennt]

Damn Leech

 

[Culex]

Oh snap, I dont want to use this shit. it eats my bandwiwdth in the backround.

I just used bandwidth monitor pro, and found that it was constantly uploading something and it was being used in the backround so i didnt even see anything running.

I'm going to give newsgroups a try instead.

That's how it works. You do realize the only reason you're downloading is because other people are uploading for you? It's called sharing.

If that's too much to ask, use Azureus or Bittornado, which can limit your upload to 3k/s.

 

[Scrow]

I just installed it and did a search on google for Bittorrent sites, and the best I can figure is every site is a pay to join search site ?

http://www.suprnova.org/ - For a whole range of stuff
http://torrent.youceff.com/ - Also for a whole range of stuff
http://www.mirkx.com.nyud.net:8090/1.php - Specifically for anime and manga

Also, which BitTorrent client did you install? Use Azureus or BitTornado. They both allow you to scale your upload and download rate.

Once I clicked the file bittorrent opened up and started downloading the file (although extremely slow)

Am I missing somthing here, this just seems rather cumbersum, time consuming and tedious ?

Make sure you've setup port forwarding correctly, so that data can be downloaded and uploaded through the firewall without any problem.

I just used bandwidth monitor pro, and found that it was constantly uploading something and it was being used in the backround so i didnt even see anything running.

That's the nature of BitTorrent. It's a process of give and take. If no one uploads enough, how is anyone else meant to get the same file you want?

Don't give up on BT as I almost did. It's worth it.

 

[Culex]

It's also the best thing to ever hit the anime fansubbing community.

 

[Wario64]

ohh, viewtiful joe RAW episode 1 is out. Wonder how the anime is?

 

[Scrow]

ohh, viewtiful joe RAW episode 1 is out. Wonder how the anime is?

what the funky? thanks for letting me know. *downloads torrent*

 

[DJ Sl4m]

http://www.suprnova.org/ - For a whole range of stuff
http://torrent.youceff.com/ - Also for a whole range of stuff
http://www.mirkx.com.nyud.net:8090/1.php - Specifically for anime and manga

Also, which BitTorrent client did you install? Use Azureus or BitTornado. They both allow you to scale your upload and download rate.

Make sure you've setup port forwarding correctly, so that data can be downloaded and uploaded through the firewall without any problem.

That's the nature of BitTorrent. It's a process of give and take. If no one uploads enough, how is anyone else meant to get the same file you want?

Don't give up on BT as I almost did. It's worth it.

Aweome reply man, I don't mind sharing, the problem is with what I downloaded I can't configure what I share and what I don't.
I knew there had to be something I was missing, this is the first I've heard of those two clients, what I downloaded was "BitTorrent-3.4.2.exe".

I found suprnova.org, and pieced a little bit of what I had to do together, but I didn't find any program that I could configure it like I wanted. If those 2 clients allow this like you say, then I'll be headed in the right direction for sure.

I'm going to give it more time before I write it off since I'll be able to set it up like I need to.
Thx for the links, & I appreciate the info, it's been very helpfull

 

[Scrow]

I also have to stress the importance of port forwarding. Go here, they explain it better than I ever could.

Purpose
Far too many people new to BitTorrent just install the client and expect everything to magically work. Then they connect to a torrent that has a ton of seeds, they get a horrible download rate and a high upload rate, and they think BitTorrent sucks. What they don't know is that their problems are almost certainly due to misconfiguration of their systems and a lack of understanding of how BitTorrent (and other p2p sharing) works. The purpose of this document is to educate you, the reader, and hopefully help you tweak your system to get the most out of BitTorrent.

 

[OmniGamer]

I don't know shit about shit about port forwarding. At first i wasn't too thrilled with BT because my upload would always cripple my download...but since a few weeks ago when I had verizon increase my DSL upload speed from 128K to 384K, it's been working GREAT. I can upload at around 40-50+K and still download at over 100K, up to 160K sometimes...good enough for me. I didn't change any settings or anything. Btw, i'm using BitCommet.

 

[Scrow]

I had verizon increase my DSL upload speed from 128K to 384K, it's been working GREAT. I can upload at around 40-50+K and still download at over 100K, up to 160K sometimes...good enough for me.

damn you and your high speed connection. I've only got 512 kbps Down/128 kbps Up. Hopefully as broadband becomes more common in Australia, the prices will get cheaper and then I'll upgrade to something like 1500 kbps Down/256 kbps Up or better.

 

[FreakyFink]

I wish there was a good Mac torrent site...

 

[OmniGamer]

damn you and your high speed connection. I've only got 512 kbps Down/128 kbps Up. Hopefully as broadband becomes more common in Australia, the prices will get cheaper and then I'll upgrade to something like 1500 kbps Down/256 kbps Up or better.

Thanks to competition from the cable companies...over the years i've gone from $39.99 for 640k down/128k up, to 1.5Mbit down/384k up for $29.99

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Torrent Bits is a pretty good site also. I'm sure you can find the url easily yourself.

 

[DarthWoo]

Torrents suck when you live on campus, even though the torrents are legitimate files (like demos or free mods) from legitimate sites.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Aweome reply man, I don't mind sharing, the problem is with what I downloaded I can't configure what I share and what I don't.

Err, actually you can. If you're just using BobSagetMovie.torrent, it's only going to be downloading and sharing the Bob Saget Movie. If you stop that and switch to DaveCoulier.torrent, it ceases to share Bob Saget and is only up/downloading Dave Coulier. If you get a more advanced program it can keep track of all your torrents, which you can then to set on or off whenever you wish. It's not going to share anything you haven't explicitly told it to.

 

[MoxManiac]

You guys had any luck getting Zone Alarm properly configured for torrents? After reading this thread and the supllied links, I'm beginning to wonder if ZA is what's causing me to have some slow speeds with some torrents and others that won't even work for me.