For more than 3 days I have been completely unable to download any videos. My torrent client is seeing half dozen of peers for each video, but nothing is downloaded. They have been all 0 kB for many days. Is anyone else having this problem?
I'm not sure if this is related, but a few torrents are reporting a negative amount peers on the site. My bittorent client is also showing these (assuming there aren't actually 65493, but -42 peers), so I suppose this is a problem on the tracker's site.
I'm not sure if this is related, but a few torrents are reporting a negative amount peers on the site. My bittorent client is also showing these (assuming there aren't actually 65493, but -42 peers), so I suppose this is a problem on the tracker's site.
That may have happened as I switched between two different tracker softwares when I tried to resolve this problem...
I'm not sure if this is related, but a few torrents are reporting a negative amount peers on the site. My bittorent client is also showing these (assuming there aren't actually 65493, but -42 peers), so I suppose this is a problem on the tracker's site.
For those of you not lucky enough to have seen this 65xxx peers problem, I took a screenshot of my torrent window. Just look at the peers column on the highlighted line. Link: http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa63/Halamantariel/65469.jpg
Don't worry .. the blurred stuff is all legal. And no, it's not pr0n.
I'm getting "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." in 10ish torrents that were running a while back (I kept my torrent program off for a while).
I'm getting "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." in 10ish torrents that were running a while back (I kept my torrent program off for a while).
Right, forgot to startup the tracker once I rebooted.
Thanks for the reminder.
Bittorrent is a major problem when downloading large, unpopular or old movies. I've often seen over 50 seeds on the tasvideos site, but only about 10 seeds for me. Or worse, 5 seeds on tasvideos but 1 for me.
Bittorrent is a major problem when downloading large, unpopular or old movies.
Bittorrent is not a problem. It is a solution.
Without Bittorrent, you would be relying on a single source. Bittorrent gives you more sources.
Anyone who can contribute uploading bandwidth, can do so without having to set up servers, and that bandwidth is immediately available for anyone who wants to download those files.
It is not the software that is at issue. It is the resources. Resources come from contributors.
If I offered the AVIs for direct HTTP downloading from my server, everyone would be relying on that single source which can provide approximately 80 kB/s in total (shared for all clients, meaning divided. There are hundreds of clients.).
Others may have bigger upload bandwidths, but the issue is not "how". It is "who". Who will contribute?
You can put the AVI on some large filesharing site such as archive.org, but even then you are relying on that single source hoping that it has enough upload bandwidth to satisfy all clients.
Who never show up anyway, at least not for the old ones. There are a lot of avis on this site that I can't find seeds for, yet the ones uploaded to archive I can DL just fine.
Borg Collective wrote:
Negotiation is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
I have brought this up before and I think there should be some kind of site policy to ensure that all currently published movies should have some kind of seeding even if its only 1/2kbs a second.
that's the role of the btfriendly client over there. check the helping page.
there's at least one person running this script at any time : Bisqwit himself. his script automatically seeds torrents that have the fewest sources, especially those without any full source. but the script only checks this every 5 minutes, and sometimes is not working since it's a free service, so just launch the torrent and wait, it will eventually download and finish.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
Bittorrent is a major problem when downloading large, unpopular or old movies. I've often seen over 50 seeds on the tasvideos site, but only about 10 seeds for me. Or worse, 5 seeds on tasvideos but 1 for me.
