Anyone know anything about private torrents?

Freakitchen · 4 Jan 2009 at 14:03

Am trying to create a private torrent to share a large file with one person - the idea being that he can pause/resume easier than sending the file over FTP. I created the torrent with uTorrent, having set it as private and using my own temporary tracker. He can connect to the torrent fine, but the upload speed fluctuates considerably, from my set max of 35Kbps, down to zero. Not using upload bandwidth for anything else. Any ideas what could be causing this? Have I done something wrong with the torrent creation?

Any help appreciated.

gumbald · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:15

Anybody? I want this file!

daven1986 · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:51

why not split it into smaller chunks and just send it using rapidshare or something?

mangobreeder · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:53

^^^ what he said

or RAR split, password and upload to a Newsgroup.

you will upload fast, and the newwgroup will max out his connection

Craig321 · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:56

mangobreeder said:
^^^ what he said

or RAR split, password and upload to a Newsgroup.

you will upload fast, and the newwgroup will max out his connection

What he said. Maybe take the Giganews trial and cancel the account before it gets renewed. The trial gives 10GB worth of transfers free, you do have to enter credit/debit card details, but as long as you remember to cancel the account before the end of the trial you won't be charged.

You'll both need to get the trial on a separate account if the file is more than 5GB.

Ben643 · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:21

This won't really help... but I had this problem when I tried it with uTorrent.

Well... I had the problem with one person, but not as badly with another :\ not sure why.

Have you tried limiting your upload in uTorrent as well? Seemed to make it slightly better for me.

Also, you could try and set up a proper tracker for yourself if you can be bothered. Quite a few free ones available if you google "torrent tracker software"

mangobreeder · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:26

out of interest how big is the file?

gumbald · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:01

800mb-ish. Splitting it up and uploading to a site hindered by upload limits isn't it? Both signing up then cancelling newsgroups also seems like a lot of effort. Might be easier to just post it!

Freakitchen · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:06

I don't want to send him the file THAT badly

Am more interested in why the torrent would be behaving in that way. Just don't get why it doesn't work in a stable way, surely some 'big' torrents out there start in this way. It was doing the same when I tried a 'public' tracker rather than the built-in uTorrent one.

Homer-Simpson · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:34

You could use something like xfire if you couldn't get the torrent working?

dave-lew99 · 6 Jan 2009 at 23:20

At this rate is it not quicker to stick a DVD in the post?

Gee · 7 Jan 2009 at 00:10

dave-lew99 said:
At this rate is it not quicker to stick a DVD in the post?

Apologies to post off topic - but does anyone know the rough price of sending DVD's in the post inside a A5 jiffy bag? Gotta send some drum n bass discs to my mate thats all.

Cheers

Freakitchen · 7 Jan 2009 at 00:27

Depends on the weight! Less than 60g is standard first class, anything more than that, take it to the post office to get it weighed. Oh, and there's an official Royal Mail surcharge for Drum and Bass, it's a principle thing

Just remembered it also depends on size these days. Even more reason to go to the post office

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?catId=400023&mediaId=11200122

Ben643 · 7 Jan 2009 at 00:36

Freakitchen said:
I don't want to send him the file THAT badly Am more interested in why the torrent would be behaving in that way. Just don't get why it doesn't work in a stable way, surely some 'big' torrents out there start in this way. It was doing the same when I tried a 'public' tracker rather than the built-in uTorrent one.

Hmmm... is it definitely not a problem his end then? I'm happy to see if it works for me if you think that may be the problem.

Daegan · 7 Jan 2009 at 00:55

Honestly sounds like it would be much easier with FTP

(Pause/Resume is easy with FTP too)

sithlord · 7 Jan 2009 at 01:03

Split the file and FTP it.

Ben643 · 7 Jan 2009 at 01:05

Daegan said:
Honestly sounds like it would be much easier with FTP

(Pause/Resume is easy with FTP too)

Not as easy as torrents when they're working properly though. Built in error checking with torrents too... but yeah, if it isn't working easily then FTP would be the next thing to try.

But he's already said, he's not that bothered about the file. He's just curious why the uTorrent tracker isn't working properly.

Gee · 7 Jan 2009 at 01:06

A surcharge?! noooooo!

People need more dnb these days

Zarf · 7 Jan 2009 at 02:19

Is yours the only machine sharing your connection? Are you using it for anything else, even web browsing / gaming?

Try installing a bandwidth monitoring program, there's a free one on www.analogx.com check that your upload is only being used by the torrent program.

booyaka · 7 Jan 2009 at 11:10

stick it on a usb stick and post it to him for about 40p!