Quick Torrent Question

Ice Rich

Ice Rich

Ice Rich

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Hi all,

Im getting a file (legal) from a torrent using Azures, it the first time ive use torrents.

Everything was going well when for the first time in months I had a BSOD half-way through the download. So I restarted and re-opened the torrent file and continued where I left off - Is it likely the file will be currupt now? I still have the green smile icon on the download.

Regards,
 
Ice Rich said:
Thanks guys,


Just had BSOD number 3. Dont know why that is. My system is normally 100% stable.
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"using Azures" <-- thats why, it sucks and will crash you all the time (some people are lucky, but I never had luck with it and I know others who had the same).

Try bitlord or utorrent - both stable and just as many features.
 
yup

change to utorrent, reaload the torrent and give it the same download directory, then do a check on the files and it should just resume..
 
Ive uninstalled Azureus and have resumed with utorrent - thanks :)

No problems yet and im getting a nice d/l seed.


Question though, im on a 4mb line but there are only options for 2mb then 10mb in the connection settings. What would be best to select?
 
uTorrent worked great - reached speeds of 500k!

After my download is complete how long do I have to wait untill its fair to close the app?

Regards
 
Ice Rich said:
uTorrent worked great - reached speeds of 500k!

After my download is complete how long do I have to wait untill its fair to close the app?
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Wait until you've at least a ratio of one-to-one, meaning you've uploaded as much as you've downloaded. I prefer to leave it open indefinitely.
 
Ice Rich said:
uTorrent worked great - reached speeds of 500k!

After my download is complete how long do I have to wait untill its fair to close the app?

Regards
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you should wait until the ratio reaches at least 1. look on the utorrent main window.... :)

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as you can see, i haven't quite got there with these torrents.... :D
 
Theres an overall ratio which is a composite of all the individual ratios. Each individual torrent you download will carry its own ratio that contributes to the overall ratio. All they ask is that you try to bring each ratio to at least one so that the torrent is well seeded for future downloaders.
 
The_KiD said:
Using Azureus myself and never had a problem with it
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thats what norton users say :)


give utorrent a shot mate, i only noticed the massive difference when using an old p3-500 as a download box, azereus would kill it, wheras with utorrent running, you could happily watch an xvid via tv out at the same time (this is quite a feat for a 500mhz machine)
 
I used Azureus for about a year, only thing i didn't like about it was the amount of CPU usage it used, i could'nt game while downloading as games used to crawl with the amount of CPU usage that Azureus used, now using Utorrent which uses nothing, so i can game and everything while its running, and i always get great speeds, on 2mb here and i get about 220-230k odd. :)
 
I used to have BSOD's in Azereus and it turned out to be my network card, i know it sounds strange and not likely to be the problem but i thought the same, i swapped the network card and tried again and it worked fine.

Although it was the network card it only effected azeruez, swapping of the network cards solved this.
 
Iev never had a problem with any client really... Azureus was fine but when I didi a re-install I decided I would try BitLord... it wasn`t any better or worse really had a couple of nice functions... then after next re-install I tried bitcomet which was cool aswell had some nice aditional features that I never used... now I`m on utorrent and I like it more than the other three especially as it pulls from rss feeds which is a nice additional feature I will use unlike the other software.
 
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