torrents

[mangetoute]

how long dose it take to down load a film ,i've been loading lord of th rings for almost a week now ,it's on the up load bit but how much longer?is there a way to speed things up,i'm using azureus to down load but is there a faster one?

[j2buttonsw]

you must make sure that azureus is working fine: no NAT firewall and good distributed database. You want everything to be green, even the Ratio :>) . How many seeds are there for that torrent? if there are only peers and no seeds you will always struggle to complete it until someone re-seeds it. If you have no seeds/peers then find another fully seeded torrent on somewhere like http://thepiratebay.org/

All this information was from a google search I don't know anything about bit torrents.

[ll_billym]

The previous poster is correct, the issue is how many seeders there are for a file rather than the torrent client you are using. Your torrent software will tell you how many seeders there are. As suggested, try a few different torrent sites searching for the same file and download the one with the most seeds.

[matty34]

well. you can try loads of websites to download movies. but personally i would you bittorrent. www.bittorent.com i think... it takes about 3 days maybe. limewire is ok. but its normally not the film. something else like p**n but bittorrent/bitlord is good

[fo3nix]

Azureus is the best client. Goto their site and onto their wiki, and there's a page about Good Settings. Do what it says for your connection speed, and then make sure it says "NAT ok" at the bottom, and the distributed database shows the number of people connected next to it.

Finally, the speed will depend on the quality of the torrent. A good torrent is one with lots of peers and lots of seeders. If you only have a few people downloading it, it may take ages if everyone has average connections.

[ll_billym]

Why is it the best client? I use BitComet and I have no complaints, what would Azureus do for me?

[mangetoute]

thanks guys,i think i,ve got it now cheers.

[fo3nix]

Azureus is one of the only ones that lets you choose individual files from a torrent, as well as access to advanced preferences. It also has a good distributed tracker system, so that if the tracker is down, you can often still download the files.

[ll_billym]

You can pick individual files with BitComet also. Didn't know about the tracker system, I'll look into it.