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Alright I have been using this program with a Blue frog as the Icon or logo or whatever can't remember the name. Last night I downloaded BitComet. Alright then I went and downloaded some Torrents of some shows I like. I opened them up in BitComet and I let tehm Download or whatever. I went to bed. Then when I got up only one was 100% and it was still downloading oddly enough. All the others were still at 0% any ideas? Sorry it's just I am new to using Torrents and such.
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You were using Azureus. I have no experience with BitComet, but the finished one was probably seeding, not downloading. The other ones were possibly paused due to a setting specifying only one torrent running at a time. Save yourself a headache (and a lot of system resources) and install uTorrent.
 
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Rank: Koopa Paratroopa
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I have never had any luck with torrents yet. For some reason (bandwith, internet traffic?) I can only get around 1-2 kb/s. Some downloads estimate a time of 3 days.
I'll try uTorrent. The idea and availability of torrents sounds awesome, I just can't really get it to work.
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"Dante Diamond" wrote:I have never had any luck with torrents yet. For some reason (bandwith, internet traffic?) I can only get around 1-2 kb/s. Some downloads estimate a time of 3 days.
I'll try uTorrent. The idea and availability of torrents sounds awesome, I just can't really get it to work. Do you have a 56K internet connection? If so I would say don't even bother with any torrent program. It's just wayyyy to slow.
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"greatmightypoo" wrote:"Dante Diamond" wrote:I have never had any luck with torrents yet. For some reason (bandwith, internet traffic?) I can only get around 1-2 kb/s. Some downloads estimate a time of 3 days.
I'll try uTorrent. The idea and availability of torrents sounds awesome, I just can't really get it to work. Do you have a 56K internet connection? If so I would say don't even bother with any torrent program. It's just wayyyy to slow. Nope, I have Cable Broadband. That's why I thought it's weird I'm getting such a slow connection (Also, I'm not running any other file-sharing program or downloading anything else during that time). Yeah, I would even attempt to get on the internet w/ 56k, especially once someone is exposed to high-speed.
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"Dante Diamond" wrote:I have never had any luck with torrents yet. For some reason (bandwith, internet traffic?) I can only get around 1-2 kb/s. Some downloads estimate a time of 3 days.
I'll try uTorrent. The idea and availability of torrents sounds awesome, I just can't really get it to work. Who is your ISP? a lot of them are "shaping" traffic lately. That just means that they determine what kind of traffic it is, and if it happens to be torrents, they just throttle those connections down a bunch. uTorrent takes steps to bypass this, so you may see an increase in speed with it.
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"Luke" wrote:"Dante Diamond" wrote:I have never had any luck with torrents yet. For some reason (bandwith, internet traffic?) I can only get around 1-2 kb/s. Some downloads estimate a time of 3 days.
I'll try uTorrent. The idea and availability of torrents sounds awesome, I just can't really get it to work. Who is your ISP? a lot of them are "shaping" traffic lately. That just means that they determine what kind of traffic it is, and if it happens to be torrents, they just throttle those connections down a bunch. uTorrent takes steps to bypass this, so you may see an increase in speed with it. Cool, I definately try it. I have Time Warner Cable. I was going to uncap my modem last night, but got lazy. The brand of it requires hardware configuration instead of just a config file and firmware update.
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"Dante Diamond" wrote:I have Time Warner Cable. I was going to uncap my modem last night, but got lazy. The brand of it requires hardware configuration instead of just a config file and firmware update. If you enjoy having a connection, I'd advise against that... They'll shut you down pretty quick.
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Rank: Koopa Paratroopa
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Yeah they can. Just have to watch how much bandwith you use up. A buddy of mine has had his uncapped for about 3 years. I was going to get DSL anyway. Not as fast, but much cheaper.
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