Widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
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how can one deploy/install “Shadowolf”?
This is the project that I am talking about. However, there is no mention of the way that it can be installed.
I have installed Tomcat. I have also svn-checked out the src code with:
svn checkout ...
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Is there a Torrent client for Windows with scripting/macros support?
Is there any torrent client for windows that allows scripting or macros?
I believe Transmission allows scripting, but it doesn't run on Windows.
This question has actually arisen from another ...
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Is it possible to exchange seeds in uTorrent?
Lets say a torrent release has 100 seeds, and I am connected to 10 of them right now. If those seeds have very bad upload speed (I can see it from peer stats), can I add those seeds to a blacklist or ...
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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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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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Linux download manager with automation feature?
I am looking for a debian download manager which can watch folders on a remote FTP site and download new files to my computer locally. This is a one way operation and not a sync, I simply need to get ...
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utorrent freeze after started
When I start UTorrent on Windows Server 2008 it freezes. It was running perfectly fine after I installed it for the first time
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Created new torrent but client unable to find seeds
I tried creating a new torrent, using uTorrent, following the directions from torrentfreak. I used a bunch of trackers (just in case any individual one was having troubles) and uTorrent shows it as ...
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Does anybody knows a replacement for TorrentSpy?
I've used TorrentSpy since 2004 and it does a pretty good job but it is very slow with torrent files that have hundreds or thousands of files. Does anyboy knows a better tool for the same job in XP?
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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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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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Chrome magnet links open up Firefox
When I try to download a torrent using a magnet link it first opens firefox, and then it opens transmission. Is there a way to fix this? I want chrome to directly open up transmission, not ...
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Skip downloads in uTorrent if no seeders/0mb downloaded after 2 minutes
I have a massive download queue whereby a lot of the files have 0 seeds and 0 peers as does my current download. Is there a preference to stop download with 0 seeds or a set limit where if 1Mb worth ...
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Do I give out bad pieces, if my BitTorrent Client can't access a file?
UPDATE: My original question really boils down to this: If I set a file to not accessible (e. g. with "chmod 000 file"), would I give out bad pieces to other Peers? And why so?
ORIGINAL: I have some ...
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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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Open Port \Win 7
when doing the download\upload test in UTorrent program it claims my port is not open (Default 17690).
After I plugged my machine directly to the modem (suspect of port forwarding not working), ...
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Ubuntu Deluge shows errors when downloading large bit torrent files and keeps erroring out after trying to resume
Ubuntu Deluge shows errors when downloading large bit torrent files and keeps erroring out after trying to resume. The error on details shows: "Invalid argument".
This happens for many large ...
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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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Bittorrent software files called dlimagecache
I have Bittorrent and today I was browsing through the program files and came across a folder called dlimagecache and inside of that were files with random names. I wanted to know what information is ...
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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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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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Torrents not downloading on a QNAP TS209 NAS
I have a Linux-based NAS from QNAP, which comes with a built-in torrent downloader. I have never really had reason to moan until about three weeks ago, when it suddenly stopped downloading anything.
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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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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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How to seed many files with aria2?
I'm using aria2 with these aliases:
cat .bashrc
alias download='while true; do timeout -s 9 1260 aria2c -j 10 *.torrent --bt-require-crypto=true --lowest-speed-limit=1024 --disable-ipv6=true ...
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torrent remote wont connect while on same network
My problem is that my torrent remote app connects fine while I use my phones data connection but fails when I'm at home using WiFi.
I've verified this this problem in the browser as well to make ...
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Prevent uTorrent from downloading when disk quota is reached?
The disk quota management in Windows XP is working with uTorrent but not in the ideal way: It notifies me that the download will not be saved because disk quota is full but only upon uTorrent exit.
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Software to log torrent's peers
I'm looking for a software to track and log to a file torrents leecher's IP's.
uTorrent for an example doesn't offer this feature which makes sense since it's very lightweight and basic application. ...
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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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How to set up port forwarding and firewall settings for torrents using Transmsission on Mac OSX 10.5.8 with Netgear Wireless Router DG844GT?
I have picked up bits of advice here and there on the internet and got someway through this tortuous exercise (after it took 18 hours to download the first torrent I tried yesterday - magnet-link for ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I need a bittorent client which can search a folder for existing files
I have a heap of files which I have downloaded at one point and renamed/moved. I was using uTorrent to seed them but it had a persistent bug so I tried out several other clients.
Now a year or so ...
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Can't download a file in the same LAN using BitTorrent
Context:
Computer 1:
ThinkPad
Windows 7
Latest version of uTorrent
Contains the one and only copy of a big file
Computer 2:
Desktop computer
Windows 7
Latest version of uTorrent
Steps to ...
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Simple way to open Port for Transmission for a Mac Snow Leopard
I am a complete noob when it comes to TCP/IP, but would like to open up my port for the Transmission bit torrent client on Snow Leopard Mac. Also, I am based in the UK if that has any relevance.
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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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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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Download Missing Chunks of an Incomplete File Using a Non-Torrent Source
Context: Last night I was downloading a video from HTTP source (Megaupload to be precise) with DownThemAll! manager. Went to sleep, came back this morning and found the PC had shutdown during the ...
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why bittorrent uses only ~300peers on about 4000?
I am downloading a file (legal of course).
In the column Peer there is:
286 (4078)
Why does it use only 300?
In the settings I have:
max connection: 1000
max peer per torrent: 500
