Widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
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linux - mktorrent: Import tracker list from file
I would like to create a torrent using mktorrent. The option -a lets you select the tracker announce you want to use for it. If I have to create a torrent with just a tracker, this is straightforward. ...
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Does a torrent tracker pass file data or just the list of addresses?
Let's suppose a file is listed on a torrent site. Obviously, the site doesn't have the file but the tracker does have a list of address to which I can connect to download such file.
My question is: ...
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Why do bittorrent clients connect to seeds when they are themselves seeding
I noticed that when I'm seeding a torrent (using Transmission, the default client under Ubuntu), it regularly connects to other seeds, to which, obviously, I won't send any data.
People I know have ...
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Automatically transfer completed downloads from seedbox home
I'm pondering a move to ruTorrent/rTorrent and was wondering how people have gone about automating transferring content from their seedbox to a linux based home server.
I'd like to:
1 - Download ...
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Opera torrent download uses whole memory - no guilty process found
I'm downloading torrent with StackExchange data dump. There was about 40% done, today when I clicked resume, the computer hanged and was practically unusable for about 30 minutes.
After a few ...
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Different download paths for different labels in uTorrent
I've been using Transmission for a pretty long time, and there was good feature which allowed me to put torrents with different labels into different folders. For ex. torrents with label music would ...
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configure Sophos UTM 120 (v9.0) to run with Bit Torrent Sync
Okay so I'm at a loss on this
I've put all my clients on the inside of the network on the same listening port
then i've added a firewall rule saying internal network -> BTSync port -> any
and i'm ...
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Transmission-daemon to port-forward
I have been using the Transmission BitTorrent GTK client to port-forward on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I would just go to the preferences and set specific port for it to open, and stop it from randomising the ...
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In simple terms, how does a BitTorrent client initially discover peers using DHT?
I've already read this SuperUser answer and this Wikipedia article but both are too technical for me to really wrap my head around.
I understand the idea of a tracker: clients connect to a central ...
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Distribute large files in WLAN using bittorrent?
I have a wireless local area network (no internet connection) consisting of 10-20 computers connected by a single router. I want to share some gigabyte-sized files from one computer (let's call it the ...
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Ready-to-deploy low-power Linux server distribution wanted [closed]
I know, the question is quite generic, so I will try to go into details.
Recently, my old neighbour, computer enthusiast, with whom I had so many great talks, upgraded his rigs, and asked me if I ...
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Converting torrent links into direct link is legal? [closed]
I want to launch a website that converts torrent link into direct link. So, my question is that the website's those converts torrent links into direct link and share with people like ...
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Completely disable internet connection except for browser and bittorrent
I need a simple software that ideally needs minimal configuration that will completely block all incoming and outgoing internet connections on my computer, with the exception of a browser (Firefox) ...
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Torrent tracker site on my PC [closed]
I really need to create a torrent tracker site today and its really damn important to me.
I've been lurking here for some time and you guys are really great.
I would love someone to hold my hand and ...
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Wifi connection drops when using torrent clients
I've read the topics I could find which are similar to this, but I've got no help reading them. So this is my situation:
Whenever I start downloading a torrent, my wifi connection drops(as in no ...
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Can I run a private Bittorrent Sync central server that replicates data but does not decrypt it?
Bittorrent just announced Bittorrent Sync, which as I understand it is a pure P2P sync solution without a central server that stores your data: Instead, all nodes in the network replicate amongst ...
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Providing a torrent with Zyxel NSA320
I have a Zyxel NSA320 that is capable of downloading files with the BitTorrent protocol. Torrents are a possibility to spread the file server. Each node feeds the torrent so the server load is ...
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Start all torrents when computer is idle
I have this huge list of torrents to download and I use bittorrent. Does bittorrent or any client have an option to pause all torrents when PC is working and start them when PC is idle ?
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BitTorrent - How do peers connect to each other? [closed]
How do peers connect to each other even if they are in separate private networks behind a NAT?
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Can I torrent (legal files) to my Mac HD from my Windows partition on bootcamp?
If I (legally) download a torrent file on Windows (running bootcamp) and select my mac harddrive as its download location on, say, uTorrent, will it work?
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How is speed decided on Torrent network?
I am curious as to how the download speed is decided on a torrent network since there are no central hubs. If there are 300 seeders, why can't a client just connect to all those 300 and not actually ...
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Why one torrent slow and others fast?
I've noticed that torrents with a lot of seeds are downloaded with the slow speed (10-50 Kb/s).
Why does it happen?
For example, I'm downloading 3 torrents with uTorrent 3.3:
Seeds: 17 of 168 (512 ...
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Deprioritizing (traffic shaping) bittorrent seeding
I have a linux server with spare bandwidth. I thought about running an rtorrent client and seeding some popular distros images. However, I can't allow myself to curtail the normal operation of the ...
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Chrome Magnet Links Won't Launch (Windows 7)
Up until today, I had Chrome setup to handle magnet links just fine. I'd click on the magnet link, a little popup would ask me if I want to launch the magnet application or do nothing, then the ...
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When a bittorrent client program “rechecks” a torrent, what does it really do?
Had a power outage while downloading, resulting in I/O buffer errors (computer on UPS, while external HDD was not).
If there were any data errors, will the "rechecking" process detect these and ...
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BitTorrent client with VPN support [closed]
I am on an ISP that shapes traffic heavily during peak times on p2p. I'd like to bypass this by using a VPN.
However, I only want Bittorrent traffic to go over the VPN (leave my normal web browsing ...
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Can I recreate a .torrent file from a torrent in uTorrent
If I have a torrent that I have been seeding for a long time in uTorrent (that I no longer have the .torrent for) that I would like to remove and then use in the future, or transfer to another PC is ...
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TP-Link Router Drops Connection if using uTorrent
I have a TP-Link WR740N router, which works fine until I start downloading anything with uTorrent. After around a minute it drops the connection silently (the router admin site still shows it is ...
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How to reparticipate in torrent seeding?
I have a file which was downloaded from torrent tracker. How to find it on tracker or how to reparticipate in seeding?
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Using qBittorrent is there a way to skip downloading junk files?
I just read How to edit the list of files to download in a .torrent file? and it show's how you can edit a torrent file but it would not work anymore.
So my question, is once the all file's are ...
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Torrent IP not detected when using a VPN?
I'm currently using Mullvad as a VPN service for my personal machine. When I go to test my torrent IP on this site (http://checkmytorrentip.com/), however, it states "Your torrent IP has not been ...
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UnionFS a local Directory and NFS Directory
I'm looking to create a union between two directories, one a local directory on the machine and the other a NFS directory to a remote client. What I want to accomplish is any writes to the directory ...
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How to make torrenting private using router [closed]
I'm on Win7 using uTorrent. Is there a way to proxy through the router itself? That is can I make my torrent DLs private using my router to accomplish this? I don't want to spend money on a paid VPN ...
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Tor Browser and how it affects torrents
I have recently received a message on my computer stating that my Internet Service Provider has been monitoring my traffic and have recorded me downloading several torrents that they have marked as ...
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How to know if someone is downloading torrents in my wifi network
My internet connection is very slow. I suspect someone in the network is using a BitTorrent client which takes huge amount of bandwidth.
Is there a way to detect who is using my bandwidth (network ...
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Where does a magnet/torrent client look for the hash/torrent/file?
In short:
Wikipedia mentions a required "availability search" to find peers (and the actual file):
Note that, although a particular file is indicated, an availability search for it must still be ...
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Bittorrent and ISP
Quick question..I switched my ISP yesterday and I immediately noticed that my torrent downloads are considerably faster now.
Is it possible torrent downloads were limited by my previous ISP?
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PC plays sounds from someone's office [closed]
I can hear someone opening and closing files or books and moving around in his/her office.
Is this normal? and what is causing it?
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linking torrent clients to utilize several public network connections
Scenario: I have five different network interfaces (different physical adapters and combination of VLANs). They range from ~30 mbps to 200 mbps. I can rather easily combine them in a proof of concept ...
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scheduling various things and balancing bandwidth while using torrent and uploading
I have approximately 200 files to be downloaded via BitTorrent,
these files can be from 200mb to 4.8 GB
on the same time I want to take backup of some already existing pdfs in my home directory,
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Restarting partially completed torrent with Transmission
I have the following issue with transmission. I have a collection of files, which form part of a torrent, some of which are complete and some of which are incomplete (and have a .part extension). I ...
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How to start/stop bittorrent software based on machine start up?
My machine is Windows XP. I am using Bit-torrent 7.7.3. I have started using bit-torrent in some days before. I am searching setting for starting Bit-torrent software on machine start up. But not ...
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Is there an automatic way to add trackers to a torrent?
As explained by this answer, adding trackers to torrents may speed up their download, as well as allow you to share the files with more peers.
Is there some way by which I can automatically add a ...
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Bittorrent Daemon with Web GUI that supports sorting via labels of some sort?
I'm building a server to share content to several Raspberry Pis running OpenELEC. I want to setup on the server a bittorrent daemon of some sort that supports user-defined labels of some sort (similar ...
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how to remove “downloading” or 0% complete torrents in rtorrent using bash script?
I have 10K torrents and 7K of them are going too slow. I would like to remove them but the rutorrent and rtorrent interface is unusably slow. I noticed that the info about rtorrent is kept in .session ...
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What are the optimum settings for uTorrent
I am recently getting slow speeds for downloading torrents on uTorrent.
However when the speed is (1-3kBps) I stop the torrent and Start it again then the speed level climbs to the usual high level ...
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Is it possible to combine a list of torrents into one torrent with many files, keeping the seeds?
Let's say you have all the episodes of FOO series that you downloaded as they were out, so you have like 20 torrents. Now let's say you want to make a bundle torrent with all the files, call it "FOO ...
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How to restrict torrent download over WIFI?
I have a DLink WIFI router with "admin" rights. I want to restrict torrent and other download over network. Please help. I am new to networking.
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Is it possible to link to a file inside of a magnet link?
I would like to provide magnet links in my service, for large downloadable files. However, I would like to be able to tell the Torrent-download client only to grab a specific file within the ...
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Strange speed jumps when downloading a torrent file
I've been experiencing strange download behavior in a torrent manager on archlinux.
Whenever I try to download a torrent my speed starts dropping and getting back to the same level again and again.
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