Questions tagged [bittorrent]
Widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
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How to forward only torrent traffic through a VPN
I have an computer setup with Ubuntu Server, and I have a few things running on it, like a Plex server, radarr, and deluged. I have an OpenVPN that I pay for, and I want to only route torrent traffic ...
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How to download a trackerless torrent?
I have a somewhat old PC at home, and I would like to try to extend its useful life with a linux distro. Reading various reviews, I decided that the first one to give a try would be LXLE. However, its ...
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Extreme speed fluctuation when downloading torrents
I am downloading the new Ubuntu release, and the speed fluctuates a lot. By a lot, I mean it is 500 kB/s one minute, and 1 kB/s the other (not exaggerating). It seems to have slow and fast "periods".
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How to forward uTorrent port on DD-WRT?
I have uTorrent 3.3.2 installed on two computers and on both computers it says that the port is not properly forwarded when I do the built-in port test.
I followed this guide to forward the ports.
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Prioritize a peer?
I'm a Utorrent user, and am currently seeding a rather large file set. I have allocated a seedbox that I want to use to share the torrent with much higher bandwidth than I currently have. However, ...
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How can I continue an incomplete download?
I recently downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 via HTTP from the Ubuntu website, the download reached 663.0 MB of 685.6 MB before it was accidentally canceled. Is it possible to continue the download using the ...
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Is it possible for a BitTorrent client to give seeding preferences only to leechers who are also seeding?
I'm not very familiar with BitTorrent on a protocol/technological level.
Is it possible for clients to prefer seeding (give more bandwidth, or only connect at all) to leechers who are also seeding ...
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need a bittorrent daemon
I'm building a Ubuntu server for the house. I want to centralize torrents. what I'm looking for is something that runs as a service (daemon) that has 3 folders to configure.
Actively downloading ...
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Does downloading Torrents cause excessive wear on hard drives?
I suspect that the most stressful to a HDD is being used as a target for downloading torrents.
I plan to get a new HDD and use the old one only for storing downloads in progress.
Is this true?
How ...
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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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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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Creating a torrent from a command line application (Windows)
Does anyone know of a application that allows you to create torrent files via the command-line in Windows?
Update: I need a command-line version because I'm a programmer. I need to create the torrent ...
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How does Bittorrent encryption prevent a man-in-the-middle attack?
Can anyone explain how p2p encryption prevents man-in-the-middle attack? People recommend encryption to stop ISPs from throttling your Bittorent traffic.
When I connect to ssl amazon - I get served ...
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Advanced Router - Power networking
I'm considering upgrading my current DD-WRT micro equipped router to something more powerful. I am interested in a router than handle atleast double the amount of connections my router can currently (...
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changing the location of currently running torrents
My torrents is currently downloading to C:\Users\Joseph\Downloads
I want to change it to another location (say C:\Downloads)
But of course the torrents (about 5 of them) have not finished ...
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Can I get infected from a .torrent file?
Is it possible to get a virus from a .torrent file?
I mean, I know .exe and other executable files can have viruses or can be malicious, but can the same be done using a .torrent file? Maybe writing ...
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How to preview unfinished torrent video files
I'm using uTorrent 2.0 and downloading videos. Some videos are large and I don't want to wait till their download is completed in order to preview. Is there a way I can preview the finished part of ...
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Why does peer-discovery work for IPv6 but not IPv4?
I'm building a peer-to-peer protocol where nodes advertise the existence of other nodes by sharing the IP addresses they are connected to. This functionality is called "peer-discovery". One ...
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Do I need to open a specific port on an OpenVPN server for torrent traffic
If I connect to an openvpn server on port 1194 from Tunnelblick on a Mac (OSX 10.10), how can I ensure that the port used by Transmission (e.g. 66887) will be open for incoming connections?
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how do torrent clients circumvent router's firewall?
Could anyone please explain me how the deluge torrent client can get incoming requests to my local machine from the Internet, while I'm behind router's firewall and do not have any port forwarding etc....
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Why do torrents slow down my internet? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to avoid bit torrent to degrade my connection performance without limiting bandwidth usage?
I'm not a regular "torrenter", but I use µTorrent occasionally to download ...
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What does the "blocklist" do in Transmission? Does it affect download speed?
In Transmission bittorrent client, there is an option to "enable blocklist", which has over 200,000 rules. I've tried searching but haven't found anything saying what the blocklist actually does.
Who ...
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How can I use torrent using psiphon
In my college, I have a proxy server. Now using psiphon, I can bypass proxy. But problem is, torrent is not working with psiphon. If I am using my cyber roam account, also torrent does not work. Is ...
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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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Relocating Torrent Files and Downloads
Ok, so I recently moved all my .torrent files and the associated downloads into a different folder. For some reason, uTorrent (Mac) can't find the downloaded file, and begins downloading it anew. How ...
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Windows bit torrent client with blacklist support? [closed]
Are their any Windows bit torrent clients that support IP blacklisting, much like Transmission does under Mac/Linux?
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Is it possible to see which torrents a server/tracker is hosting?
A server is acting as a host/tracker for various torrent files; if I have a working torrent I can download from it.
Is there an easy way to see which other files it is tracking/hosting?
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If I download torrents while using a VPN, how do trackers know my real IP?
From my understanding this is how trackers work:
I want a file. My BitTorrent client tells the trackers I want that file
Other peers who also want that file do the same thing.
The tracker connects me ...
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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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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 do I migrate my Transmission state & settings to another user account?
Suppose I want to migrate my transmission configuration settings and current "state" (which torrents are active, which are paused, etc.) - from one user account to another, either on the same machine ...
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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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What are Magnet Links?
When I download a torrent file there is an option for 'magnet link download'.
What is a 'Magnet Link'? Do they have any extra advantages?
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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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Is there a torrent client which can force downloading consecutive segments of a file instead of random?
Basically I want to be able to download video files in a way that I can play them while they are downloading.
Or is that impossible to do with the bit torrent protocoll? If you can force the client ...
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How can I transfer incomplete torrents from Vuze to uTorrent?
I want to switch my torrent client from Vuze to uTorrent, but I have several downloads in progress. Is there any way I can move my incomplete downloads between clients?
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Which bittorrent clients can download preview chunk first?
Is there a way to tell uTorrent or other BT clients to download the first 1 or 2 or 3% first?
It cannot be quite disturbing when downloading a clip using BT clients and it is 80% done but the first 1%...
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Torrenting crashes internet connection
This only started happening recently, when I torrent something it crashes the router after a while. I noticed with uTorrent it happens almost immediatly and with qBittorrent only after like 10 minutes....
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What is the difference between UDP and HTTP torrent trackers?
In the context of bittorrent what's the difference between http and udp trackers? HTTP is an application layer protocol and UDP is a transport layer protocol so the concepts seem non-overlapping. I ...
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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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RSS with only .torrent links for newly released FOSS .iso files?
Is there a freely accessible RSS feed such that
(1) it exclusively consists of direct .torrent links for newly released FOSS software, and
(2) the feed can be parsed by utorrent or a similar free ...
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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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Accessing Bittorrent Web UI remotely
I'm connecting to internet through router which updates the IP to DynDNS.
Within my home network, I can access the WebUI with
http://localip:8080/gui/
If my DynDNS domain is http://mydomain.ath.cx, ...
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Not Seeding - For Beginners
I have downloaded a file using qBittorrent. However, it does not seem to be seeding - I know the difference between seeders, peechers, and leechers - and there are no upload limits. Also, I am using a ...
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Change uTorrents list highlight color
After last update uTorrent changed skin. And now its hard to recognize selected torrent from list or files from files tab. How can I change this color?
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Can't connect to qbittorrent (or other client) Web UI, except through localhost
I'm trying to use qBittorrent's (I've also tried other torrent clients') remote Web UI, but can't seem to get it to work. I can connect just fine using http://localhost:PORT, but can't connect using ...
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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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Can you get a virus from downloading a .avi file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can avi files contain a virus?
Can you get a virus from downloading a .avi file? (say from torrent)
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qBittorrent: how to add a torrent using it's hash?
I did try to Use "add torrent link" pasting
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:INFOHASH (where the INFOHASH is the hash number)
But the hash appear like 00000000000000000
Any idea how to add a torrent from the ...
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Configure LAN Router To Prevent Illegal Torrenting?
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I have a typical broadband setup at home (It's a flatshare I have no control over who uses the house) and I want to prevent anyone using it from illegally downloading via torrents etc.
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