Widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
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How does Bittorrent work?
I want to learn more about the bittorrent way of file sharing. I am a technically advanced user (programmer), so technically advanced material is no problem, but it should be concise and to the ...
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Prioritize bit torrent traffic
I would like to know how to prioritize traffic from various applications. Specifically I want to know if there is a way to give web traffic higher priority over bit torrent traffic.
OS : Windows XP
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How to avoid bit torrent to degrade my connection performance without limiting bandwidth usage?
The only way I found so far to have a normal web surfing, while the uTorrent is on, is to limit its bandwidth usage.
There is a smarter way where the torrent can use the remaining bandwidth?
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How to make torrent downloads faster?
In windows Vista Home Premium x64 using uTorrent, how can I make the download(s) faster?
EDIT: What are recommended settings for QoS?
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Which torrent apps work headless (from command line only)?
There's a question on here about what torrent apps work well remotely, but I'm hoping to find out one that works well through a command line interface, preferably with no GUI.
What torrent apps ...
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Continue bittorrent downloads on a different computer?
I'm using Bit Lord as my Bittorrent client. Is it possible to continue torrent downloads on other computer?
I'm at about 38% of the 8GB file that I'm downloading. What do I need to do in order to ...
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Increasing download speed for torrents?
Can you please list out any torrent client configuration to get max out of available net speed?
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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 ...
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SOHO NETGEAR wireless router disconnects when downloading torrents
I have a NETGEAR WGT624 wireless router at home which dies when there is a heavy torrent load.
I open up my torrent client and it downloads for about 5 to 10 minutes and it continues to increase the ...
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How can I circumvent BitTorrent throttling?
My ISP is a reseller of Bell Canada DSL service. Bell uses Deep Packet Inspection for all of its users and resellers to limit the bandwidth consumed by P2P applications such as BitTorrent.
Bell ...
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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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Configure Modem for Bittorrent downloads
How can I configure the Modem to get maximum download speed for Bit torrents?
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How to open ports on router for better torrent performance
I've been using utorrent to download and upload torrents for a long time. Recently someone told me that I need to open port(s) for utorrent from my router settings for better downloading and uploading ...
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Port Forwarding and Internet Sharing Problem
This is not a firewall issue.
I have an ADSL connection, and have set port 50420 to be forwarded locally for use with utorrent. Everything was working fine, and various tests and utorrent itself ...
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Charitable uses of upload bandwidth?
My google-fu is failing me. I already donate most of my spare CPU time to BOINC projects. I'd like to donate my spare up-load bandwidth to worthy causes, particularly if they have high-social value, ...
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Does uTorrent use LAN networking if a peer is on my LAN?
Can uTorrent (or any other bittorrent client for that matter) detect that a peer is on your LAN, and share parts through LAN instead of the internet?
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Is there a BitTorrent client that can download files “in sequence”?
Is there a BitTorrent client that can download files "in sequence"?
For example, download
clip 01.avi (high priority)
clip 02.avi (normal priority)
clip 03.avi (low priority)
clip 04.avi (low)
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Are there any torrent clients that run as a service?
I turn off all of my computers at night except for my server. I'd like to be able to have my torrent downloads run on my server, which won't be logged in, so I'm wondering if there are any clients ...
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Why BitTorrent uploads simultaneously? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does Bittorrent work?
While downloading torrent, I notice that BitTorrent simultaneously uploads and downloads. Download is obvious, but why upload?
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I need to block torrent downloads
My cousin complains that his housemate uses torrent and thus it causes slow connection to my cousin.
He owns the ADSL modem and I saw some good futures such as blocking websites or protocols. Like if ...
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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 ...
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Is it possible to use two internet connections and combine their upload for bittorrent?
Since each Internet connection has its own IP, I see that as a problem. Or can you use one connection as the primary connection, and then use the other connection to spoof packets coming from the ...
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Is it ok to use Bittorrent on solid state drives (SSD)?
I heard it's not recommended because of all the writing on the drive?
(My friend wants to know)
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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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Torrent Client - Command line - Windows
I just wonder Is there any command line torrent client ? like wget downloader.
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1answer
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How to edit the list of files to download in a .torrent file?
I have a torrent that contains many files in it, but I don't want to download all of them because I need only few files among them. I am not downloading from a torrent client, but I am actually using ...
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How to change the magnet uri handler in Google Chrome?
I removed the Transmission BitTorrent client from my Ubuntu and installed Deluge. Now magnet URIs don't work anymore. How to tell Chrome to launch the new app instead?
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What is uTorrent? How is it different from BitTorrent?
What is uTorrent and how is it different from BitTorrent? What is it used for? Where is a tutorial? What is BitTorrent?
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Am I connected to ALL the people who are currently downloading/seeding that Bittorrent file?
When I open a Bittorrent file, am I connected to ALL of the people who are currently downloading/seeding that Bittorrent file?
Or am I only connected to a subset of people who are currently ...
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How to host a torrent server?
I use Apache on my machine to share some files over office network.
How can I host them over torrent instead of sending them over http?
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How to disable direct download and torrents
Is there any way to disable direct download and torrents from the router? Or from the computer?I have a slow internet connection (.40 mbps) and I'm sharing it with another person.
Please help. If you ...
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How to host/use a private tracker
How do I use or host a private tracker in u torrent. I need to link my friends torrents and mine. I don't exactly know how these work so I would like some detailed infomation.
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Deprioritize BitTorrent traffic
I'm sure the question has been asked before, but I can't seem to find it for myself; my Google-fu eludes me.
My router, the Linksys E2000, does a decent job at being reasonable about prioritizing ...
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How do I optimize bit torrent on my fast university connection?
I've read a lot of guides for optimizing bit torrent, but they're usually aimed at DSL or cable modem type bandwidth. I get about 50mbps download and upload right now. Is the following guidelines ...
