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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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1answer
212 views
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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1answer
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Are the “TCPackFrequency” and “TCPnodely” settings we use for games good for torrents? [closed]
I wonder if they are a deterrent of good torrent networking operation.
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1answer
884 views
What do light purple color mean in uTorrent
I run uTorrent 3.1.2 in my Windows 7 PC. When I download one file, I see some purple colored lines under Files Tab > Pieces. Below is an image of what I am telling (little resized);
I think that ...
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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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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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1answer
183 views
What is the command line program to seed an already downloaded torrent?
So, I'm finished with downloading Ubuntu 12.04 torrent. I used rtorrent for that. After it's finished, I closed the rtorrent. Now, I still has the torrent file and I want to seed it without ...
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1answer
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Upgrading uTorrent 2.x to 3.x behind a router
After upgrading uTorrent version from 2.x to 3.x some torrents get the requested address is not valid in its context in tracker statuses. Upload speed on such torrents is very slow or none. ...
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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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1answer
1k views
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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1answer
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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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2answers
391 views
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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2answers
3k views
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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1answer
1k views
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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
453 views
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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2answers
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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 ...
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2answers
866 views
Using Linux how to resume a torrent download started on Windows?
Maybe some torrent client for Linux can understand the metadata generated by a Windows client. Or maybe there is a Web/Desktop client that works in both systems. Is there any way to do that?
I use ...
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1answer
118 views
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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2answers
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running bittorrent and utorrent together
I want to migrate to uTorrent however I've got some files running in bittorrent so basically I'm having both bittorrennt and uTorrent running now.
1) I was wondering will we have any problems running ...
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1answer
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The ratio / availability / added on / completed on / etc info in uTorrent?
In bittorent we have these useful info like:
But why don't we have these info in uTorrent?
Like say at a glance, I can see the "problematic downloads" in bittorrent:
But there's no way for us ...
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1answer
250 views
Is it possible to tell if a file is valid after an incomplete torrent download?
I'm trying to downloading a torrent file using uTorrent but it only gets to 99.3%... no one else is seeding anymore.
If I open the torrent folder I can see all the individual files I'm looking for. ...
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2answers
678 views
uTorrent or Transmission web interface hosted on web server
Is it possible to host my Transmission or uTorrent web interface on my web server? They have a local network web interface, and I don't want to port forward... Can I somehow configure it to it to log ...
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1answer
562 views
High speed downloads to NAS via workstation reporting “disk overload”
After a couple of years of down- and uploading files (mostly by torrents) directly to the hard drive of my workstation, I recently set up a NAS to handle storage and the read/write load. That, of ...
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4answers
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Is there a way I can choose what individual files to download within a .torrent?
Is there a way to get the list of files under the files tab without the download starting? Sometimes I am after a single file within a torrent, however, to see the list, I need to start downloading.
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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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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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Where is the “stop seeding when target reached” option in uTorrent?
I remember uTorrent once had an option to stop seeding once "seeing goal was reached". Did it go away? I can't find it now (Windows, 2.2.1).
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1answer
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High “wasted” on a torrent download, with no hashfails
Recently I have downloaded a game patch from a torrent. The total patch size was ~528 MB and the torrent has shown 235 MB as "wasted", with 0 hashfails. Some other things I remember about the ...
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2answers
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Can you make torrents start downloading only AFTER the previous torrent has finished downloading in uTorrent?
If I have multiple downloads I can have them all download simultaneously or pause one and let the other download and then when the 1st is done I manually pause it and have the second download, ...
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1answer
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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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Why uTorrent doesn't respect upload limit?
I have set an upload limit of 30kB/s, but sometimes it is uploading 100kB/s. I have tested uTorrent and BitTorrent and they have the same problem. I disabled the setting "use more upload slot if ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
96 views
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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1answer
444 views
Torrent: Webseed or seeding client on server?
I want to share a file using bittorent which I also offer over http.
The torrent should be seeded by a dedicated and a virtual server and by people who are downloading it to lower bandwidth costs.
My ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to download A torrent file completely and quickly with no uploading, but let the file be uploaded by other users after it has finished?
Is it possible to download A torrent file completely and quickly with no uploading, and then after seed the file to be uploaded by other users?
I'm finding that the downloading process is incredibly ...
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1answer
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How do I tell µTorrent to download files within a torrent sequentially?
Normally µTorrent will download many files simultaneously. Is there a way to tell it to use all bandwidth/connections to download one file and then move to the other?
Setting file priorities does ...
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3answers
38k views
What's the difference between a torrent file and a Magnet link?
What's the difference between a torrent file and a Magnet link?
What is the difference between usage, can I use μTorrent to download files from a Magnet link?
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287 views
Best bittorent client for Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Torrent client for Ubuntu similar to uTorrent
What is a good bittorent client for Linux?
So far I used uTorrent on Windows, but recently I moved to Fedora and I saw ...
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3answers
417 views
Order of downloading parts for torrents
If I download a torrent (uTorrent 2.0.1), is there a way to tell the program to prefer parts on the beginning of the file (eg. so that I can play a video file while downloading)? Something similar to ...
