BitTorrent is a widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, invented by Bram Cohen in 2001. BitTorrent is mostly decentralized, and is optimized for transferring large files. A substantial fraction of internet traffic uses the BitTorrent protocol. For originators of the content, BitTorrent is ...
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Torrent client for Windows with scripting/macros
Is there any torrent client for windows that allows scripting or macros?
I believe Transmission allows scripting:
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Scripts
This question has actually arisen from ...
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Using torrent on networks which block torrents
How can I use torrents on a network which blocks torrents and trackers? Is using a proxy server the only way?
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Does Torrent programs damage hard disk
As it's clear from the title.
Someone told me that torrent programs keep reading and writing to HDD for long time and that will slow down this HDD and may cause damage to it.
Is that true ??
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Hide a web seed in torrent file
I want to seed a torrent from direct link. But users can see a direct link in .torrent
file web option, so that they will not use the torrent and could go to directly download from
the link.
Any one ...
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Is uTorrent warning for nothing?
The newest uTorrent version has a feature which warns me if the file is malicious.
I noticed that it was right at least once or twice, but after testing 4 different torrents I couldn't find any ...
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Torrent caching sites? [closed]
I am a superuser of torrent sites I admit it, but I am building a program for torrents and just wondered if any other people know of some torrent caching sites?
I know of two,
http://zoinkit.com/
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Add files to a published torrent? Add trackers to a torrent on a private tracker?
I have 2 questions about torrents:
Is there a way to add files to a published torrent?
I share my video podcasts via bittorrent to reduce my bandwidth
bill. But when a "season" is complete I want ...
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bittorrent - alternating download speed limit for night and day
I think the question is pretty self-explanatory ... I'm using bittorrent on my windows to download torrent files, and I want to have a low speed limit during the day so I can browse the net faster, ...
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Bittorrent client that can limit network impact (Adjust download rate so impact on other users is limited) [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to avoid bit torrent to degrade my connection performance without limiting bandwidth usage?
Are there any Bit-torrent clients that can limit impact on other ...
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Can we get a virus by allowing an External Protocol Request in Chrome?
Good afternoon all,
I'm using the latest Chrome (v18.0.1025.162) and I was wondering how safe is it exactly to allow those "magnet links" that Bittorrent has?
I always choose to download the ...
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How do I get ruTorrent work with magnet links on ReadyNAS Duo?
For some reason I cannot get ruTorrent to work with magnet links. The UI happily logs torrent was successfully passed to rTorrent but no torrent is added and no downloads are started. I cannot find ...
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bittorrent prioritize torrents for uploading
There are certain torrents in my list which I'd like to prioritize when it comes to seeding.
Is there a torrent client which has this option?
I want to mention that hacks like pausing every other ...
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Give higher download priority to specific parts of file in a BitTorrent client?
Generally, and probably for good reason, BitTorrent clients download across all of the file equally based on various other factors. However when downloading some videos I would prefer to get the start ...
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What do Flags and Reqs mean in uTorrent?
I'm seeding a torrent file in uTorrent, and under Peers tab it shows the following statistics:
What do those Flags (some combinations of upper and lower case letters like u, h, i, x, e, p) mean? ...
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I cannot connect to home server after a few hours
I have an old PC and I decided to revive it. A LAMP (for my own use) and a P2P server (torrent and e2dk).
My old PC is an AMD Athlon XP (1400 MHz) with 384 Mb of RAM
First of all I installed Ubuntu ...
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Which trackers to use for a torrent? [closed]
I'm new to bittorrent seeding and I'm experimenting with an audio file that I'm adding to create my first torrent. I'm using transmission but at the field where I should add trackers I'm stuck and I ...
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BitTorrent hogging my bandwidth to the point where Windows doesn't think I'm connected to the internet
I just witnessed something that blew my mind. I was downloading something on BitTorrent, and it was downloading at a fairly high rate (~1MB/s). The upload speed was very low (~15kB/s courtesy of lots ...
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force to re-check availability of files in utorrent
I downloaded part of my torrent that are in utorrent with bittorrent to the same folder. bit torrent started to check the file and found the downloaded parts exactly.
Sometimes utorrent started to ...
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Does uploading reduce download speed in torrent?
I was searching to know: "Does uploading and downloading at the same time reduce download speed?" and I found this:
Should uploading a file on DSL kill the download speed?
but it is related to TCP ...
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How can I set network priority to give me faster download speed?
I have been trying for some time to torrent at school. They blocked almost every port apart from the necessary ones, (21 80 443 etc.) I finally figured out how to torrent, but with over 200 people ...
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Is there a torrent software that doesn't require installation?
I'd like a torrent client that doesn't require installation and can run of an exe. Is there such a software ? If not, is it possible to install it onto a thumb drive and then be able to run it on a ...
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Changing the queue priority in bittorrent
I am using this bittorrent 7.6 and I have many downloads in my queue.
I just want to change the queue order (marked in red) instantly but the process is manually and time consuming is their any ...
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Speed-up uTorrent when PC is idle?
Is it possible that uTorrent will use its max speed when there is no other internet activity in the PC?
For example, if I'm using Firefox, uTorrent should be limited or have low priority for internet ...
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Program to download .torrent file from a Magnet URI?
I have a Torrent app running on my home server that has an outdated but pretty useful web interface. The one problem is that it doesn't take magnet links, only .torrent files. I'd like to continue ...
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Magnet links do not display data in uTorrent
For some reason on certain websites when I press on magnet links it redirects me to 'Add new torrent' and its empty. Size: 0B and the list below it is empty too.
Any idea how to fix this?
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What are the URLs for the eight ThePirateBay.org trackers? [closed]
I made a song and want to share it through thepiratebay (I play guitar!). What are the trackers I should add to my torrent so that thepiratebay.org will update correctly?
Wikipedia says they have 8 ...
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All-in-one PHP solution to share files?
I have enough hard-disk space on a PHP-capable hosted site so I can host the files there instead of my work PC at home.
I was wondering if someone knew of a good, light PHP server application that ...
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Running bittorrent unto flash memory
My tablet has internal, irreplaceable, flash storage.
How advisable or inadvisable is it to run a torrent client on my tablet?
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Failed sharing my first file with BitTorrent
I read some tutorials, but for some reason, I can't download the file:
On the source PC (ie. the one that has the file I want to share), I launched uTorrent, chose File > Create New Torrent, and ...
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How does downloading a file overnight affect the CPU and hard disk?
I am currently downloading a legal torrent of 49 files (8 GB total) and getting the speed of 50 KBps. How does doing this overnight affect the CPU and hard disk? Are there any long-term risks to the ...
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Torrents never start downloading with Transmission
I'm using the latest version of Transmission on a machine running OS X Lion. When downloading the torrent file version of Fedora 16's "scientific" spin, I've run into the following problem: Nothing ...
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Is it possible to retrieve magnet link via transmission-remote?
I'm running torrents on the home server, and I talk to home server via the transmission-remote utility. I'd like to retrieve the magnet link for one of my torrents, however this seems to be ...
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Obtaining IP information from Trackers
I undertand the basics of torrents and file sharing over distributed networks.
A torrent file contains two important pieces of information; the torrent tracker address and the hash key. The address ...
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How do I block my torrent client from sending data in a certain time range?
I'd like to block my torrent client on Mac OS X Lion from accessing Internet, from 6pm to 2am, so that it doesn't slow down my connection while I need it.
Is there a way I could do that using some ...
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After a while downloading torrents my network card stops working properly
The situation
I download happily torrents with uTorrent for a long time, maybe 12 hours.
Suddenly, I notice my connection stopped working.
When I check uTorrent is still downloading stuff.
When I ...
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A torrent client which automatically detects http and related activity from the web browser and reduces its upload/download speed
When my torrent client(transmission on ubuntu) is on, I can barely browse the web.
Manually closing the torrent client or reducing its speed every time I use the browser and then bringing it back to ...
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Do I leave an identifiable trace if I use a torrent client on different network connections?
I am using a usb-stick based operating system. So I use different computers and network connections. If I use Vuze for example, could a remote entity (eg a tracker) track my movements by seeing some ...
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Download torrents on an iPad to a NAS [closed]
I recently purchased the amazing TonidoPlug 2 to be a media server. Now, I would like to run a torrent client on my iPad, but save the downloads right to the TonidoPlug. The TonidoPlug has various ...
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Is it feasible/likely that my ISP is doing per-client throttling of bittorrent?
Seems very strange to me, but I've run a few tests, and would love some ideas of other tests. I have a linux box here running Deluge, where I most of my bittorrent activity happens, and a Windows box ...
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Can't install torrent clients on CentOS
I tried to install transmission and bittorrent. Now, for some reason I can't install them.
When I run rpm -xxxxx transmission or bittorrent, it just goes to the prompt. I can't run them from the ...
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Access to self created torrent on public tracker [closed]
Not sure if this is the right site to ask this, but here it goes:
Let's say I'd like to share a couple of private files with a few friends. The size of these are quite large, so I've figured the ...
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Can my Internet be slowed down by someone else's torrent downloads?
I am on a home wireless network with three other users. One of them downloads torrents 24x7.
Whenever the other person is doing his thing with torrents, my laptop's Internet speed drops to a crawl. ...
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Are torrents less efficient than regular downloads?
When I download a file in torrents, the actual download (seen in the Ubuntu 'System Monitor') is a bit more than the download observed in the 'Transmission BitTorrent Client'. Are torrents less ...
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D-Link 323 NAS built-in BitTorrent Client doesn't work
I have a D-Link DNS-323 that comes with a built-in BitTorrent client.
I installed it and set it up as described in the manual.
However the client doesn't work at all. I use it according to the ...
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How to resume seeding a specific torrent after re-installing Windows?
Assume we downloaded a torrent completely and seeded it for a while; now we're gonna re-install Windows and install the torrent client again. We also have downloaded files here too.
So, how could I ...
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utf8 torrent files
I have a CinemaGo HD media player, that has a built-in torrent client (I guess it is bit-torrent). But I am unable to download some torrent files because they are not in utf-8 format (you can see it ...
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Running a script on rtorrent completion
How can I make rtorrent run a script when it's finished downloading a torrent, with the full path to the torrent's folder as a parameter?
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How to export/import torrent in transmission in Ubuntu?
I need to move a couple of torrent transmissions to another idle computer. I have copied all the downloading files into (equivalent) ~/Downloads of machine 2 but the Transmission client on machine 2 ...
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Bittorrent using only 5 connections
I'm downloading a torrent with over 350 seeders and 2200 leechers. However I only download at about 10 kbps with 5 seeds/leechers.
I'm figuring out it's because utorrent didn't check for speed with ...
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uTorrent not starting as “minimized” even though settings have been set appropriately
Whenever I run Bittorrent (Win + Bittorrent + ENTER) it will start minimized to tray.
However my settings in uTorrent have been set, yet it isn't starting as "minimized":
Does anyone know how do I ...
