Questions tagged [bittorrent]
Widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
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Unable to connect between two computers on bitorrent
I'm having difficulty connecting two of my personal computers via bitorrent to transfer a large file (it's a tar file of photos, ~70gb). I have tried to transfer it over SFTP/SSH/HTTP/SFTP but keep ...
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Torrent client randomly probing internal network when DHT is enabled
I'm using Transmission but looking at some posts on different forums this doesn't seem to be client specific.
When DHT is enabled I can see get_peers requests sent to random internal addresses. These ...
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How to block BitTorrent in ASUS RT-AC88U
I want to block BitTorrent with my ASUS RT-AC88U Wi-Fi router.
I already know that I have to block port 6681 through 6889. In Network Service Filter I can add blocks for ports, but I can only have 32 ...
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Does anyone else have a trouble connecting to Kali Linux tracker announce server?
My torrent tracker cannot connect to http://tracker.kali.org:6969, the Offensive Security's announce server for Kali Linux torrents. Everything else seems to work fine, I downloaded a file and sharing ...
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How does the internet providers utilize or asign IPs
I'm asking because i used the iknowwhatyoudownload out of curiosity while at work, and i found some uninteresting torrents being downloaded (games and movies)
The internet provider is the same for ...
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how to check from linux sh torrent file has completelly downloaded
Ad far as I researched there is no android app that may be able to download a file directly into a shared drive.
Therefore I am developing a small routine in termux (linux) that cron checks all ...
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Torrenting now fails in Windows 10
qbitTorrent stopped working in Windows 10, so I uninstalled it, and replaced it with Deluge.
64-bit Deluge fails with
"Unhandled exception in script
Failed to execute script 'deluge-script' due ...
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Unable to access docker containers in bridge networks through vpn when outside
I have transmission and docker-wireguard-pia set up. I can access the transmission webui on lan, but when i try to access it through a vpn(pivpn wireguard), I can access the other services but am ...
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Why does torrenting not work if both peers on the same LAN are using a VPN with local network sharing/discovery enabled?
I have found that torrenting a file on a LAN will not work if both peers have a VPN (Mullvad VPN) enabled with local network sharing/discovery enabled; however, if I disable local network sharing/...
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Can not download files with different torrents, Windows 10
Can not download files.
This is my friend's problem (just help him). He can download files with browsers, but not with torrents. How he tried to fix the problem:
Download with another wi-fi (he tried ...
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Want to seed torrents downloaded in Windows partition from Linux Mint Partition
So I have Windows 10 installed in my C:\ drive, and I have a number of torrents in a specified folder in C:\ drive as well. I use qBittorent on Windows. I recently dual booted Linux Mint, which is in ...
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How to convert a multiple magnet links into a single .torrent?
I have a long list which is a single download. A single file for downloading all the components would be great if it uses the dn= field for file names. Or there’s should be an alternative for ...
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Deluge client cannot connect to the server
I have a deluge daemon (version 2.0.3) running on my home server (Ubuntu 20.04).
The problem is that I am not able to connect to it with my client (v 1.3.15) running on Mac OS:
It's looks pretty ...
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Plain http proxy via https?
I am not very experienced in network related stuff, but latterly I have to dig into it, because the level of censorship in my country is growing rapidly. I am hosting a VPS in another country on which ...
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Bittorrent- embedded tracker issue HTTP error 401
I've created my own private torrent file, and I'm testing it on another PC with it's own completely separate internet connection, but it gets stuck on status 'connecting to peers' and nothing ...
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Docker is limiting the network speed when the host OS is idle
Something weird is happening with my containerized torrent download speed.
I tested with deluge and qbittorrent within a docker container.
When I start a download it starts fast, then it slows down ...
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Cannot take ownership of file so I can delete it
takeown.exe /F btweb_installer.exe
ERROR: Access is denied.
I installed btweb_installer.exe, but my Avira antivirus quanrantined the file, because it contained a virus and now I have an exe file with ...
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Does torrenting expose your information more than simply browsing the clear web? Why a VPN?
Everybody says you need a VPN to torrent. I won't bother posting references because literally everybody says so.
Does that only apply to illegal torrenting (which I am not interested in... that's just ...
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BitTorrent updates signaled as Potentially unwanted app found by Windows Security
Windows Security has detected file: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\BitTorrent\updates\7.10.5_46211.exe as potentially unwanted app. What action should I perform for it - Allow or Quarantine or ...
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Explorer crashed while moving files to external drive, amount of free space after that is wrong
During the weekend something strange happened, which I don't understand.
Maybe somebody smarter than me can help me out here.
Last weekend I had the idea to move some movie files from my internal D ...
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What does the "force resume" feature of BitTorrent clients actually do?
In every BitTorrent client I've ever used, there are two features: "resume" and "force resume". If "resume" doesn't work, one can "force resume", which often ...
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Which ports need to be allowed through firewall to seed torrent using transmission-cli on headless server?
Self-hosting my own tracker using bittorrent-tracker.
Opened UDP port 6969 on tracker and seed servers.
What else needs to be allowed?
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Windows Security prevents utorrent from running
I have been using utorrent for many years. To my surprise, I found it had disappeared from my computer. After some investigation, I found it had been put into Quarantine by Windows Security. I managed ...
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Torrents slow down to a crawl
Recently I started noticing qBittorrent slow down to a crawl (from 5MB/s down to 1-3 kilobytes per second)
Bear in mind, this is with a dozen or so extremely well-seeded torrents on top tier private ...
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How to create and seed new torrent files for BitTorrent using transmisson client? (Issue)
I'm trying to create and seed a new torrent file. Assuming the file I wanna share using BitTorrent is foobar.tar and the tracker that I've used is udp://tracker.eddie4.nl:6969/announce, which I got it ...
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Terminally incomplete downloads
It often happens when I'm downloading music -- usually classical -- I'll get 99+% of the file and the download stops. I've tried deleting and reloading the torrent only to get the same result. I've ...
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Why won't my torrent client download a test torrent I created?
I found two posts that are similar to mine, but they do not have a solution to the issue I'm seeing.
I created a test torrent using mktorrent and added some open trackers to it. I am seeding this ...
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What is the difference between transmission and transmission-daemon?
I have watched some tutorials on how to install torrent program on raspberry.
I have seen somebody installs like this:
sudo apt install transmission
Someone installs it like this:
sudo apt install ...
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Can a torrent be created when no one member has all the data, but the initial seed group does?
Suppose you have several members of a community, who have been collaborating on parts of a project, and now want to distribute their results. As a made-up example, we'll suppose the engine team has a ...
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How do I set up Sonarr's download client?
I'm currently using qBittorent. Would setting up the Web User Interface somehow make it insecure? Is there a way to have qBittorent listen to Sonarr on my computer ONLY?
I'm sorry if this is pretty ...
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Deluge refuses non-localhost connections (remote connections allowed)
I have checked other questions before posting this one, I cannot find a duplicate of my issue. I have a kubuntu box which I have deluge and deluged installed on. Deluged is set up and is working ...
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A lot of jitter when running a torrent client
I've been running into an issue that is making me tear my hairs out. In my network, whenever I run a torrent my network clogs up. I experience packet loss and a very high ping. I've limited the ...
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How can I "fix" my transmission-gtk state after having moved the download directory?
Suppose you use the transmission-gtk BitTorrent client (v2.94) on a Linux system to seed some files, e.g. Linux distribution ISOs and LibreOffice versions. Suppose that the basic "Save To ...
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Does the BitTorrent protocol allow you to share empty directories?
When I tried to create a torrent file out of a directory that contains several empty child directories, they were ignored and omitted in the torrent file. I wonder if this is a qBittorrent thing or a ...
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How to create p2p metalinks files
Metalinks files are files which allows to download files or folder using multiple protocols.
There are lot of softwares for downloading using MetaLink. But in my case, I want to create a metalink file ...
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How BitTorrent client is able to connect to a IP address when my browser cant?
My institute's router blocks all my http request on browser. The image below shows what I get when i type in google.com (while connected to my institute's router)
But I observed a weird thing. my ...
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uTorrent free internet?
I run a windows operating system and I've installed the uTorrent app on my pc. I am from India. India has a ISP provider namely 'Reliance Jio'. I am a resident of a government hostel which has a Wi-Fi ...
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How do we find the uTorrent Web or BitTorrent Web torrent files from the directory (on the Mac)?
uTorrent and BitTorrent the app have both released a uTorrent Web and BitTorrent Web version. It seems weird, but it seem like it is using an app, and the webpage as the "frontend" to talk ...
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Significantly lower download speeds than peers while torrenting
As you can see in the picture attached the average download speed I'm getting while downloading a torrent is 1 MB/s while my maximum limit from my ISP is 6.5 MB/s. One of the peers as you can see (...
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Is it possible to create a torrent where nobody has a full copy?
I'm working with a few other people on different chunks of the same dataset. It would be good to have an easy way of unifying and deduplicating our results. It occurred to me that torrents are already ...
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How do I find torrents which are no longer registered on the tracker?
When a particular torrent is removed from the tracker, I can see that if I open the "Properties" dialog and look a the "Trackers" tab in Transmission: there is an error message ...
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rtorrent: Move a completed download
After upgrading to rTorrent 0.9.8, my old rTorrent configuration-file did not work. By reading the docs, I used the new example and just adjusted the directories. However, I have one problem: After ...
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How do I tell qBittorrent v4.3 to download files within a torrent sequentially? (files, not parts of files)
Normally qBittorrent 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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The torrent is seeding in my torrent client but others can't download the files, how to seed correctly?
I created a torrent by following the approach mentioned in this link.
The torrent status is showing as seeding on my machine. I kept on a VirtualBox VM< with NAT connection.
But, it is not ...
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Why do my Ubuntu 12 and 14 Bittorrent seeds get so many downloads from Taiwan? [closed]
I will often open my Transmission control panel and see that old Ubuntu ISO files that I never removed from seeding are being downloaded. And it is usually from somewhere in Taiwan. These are the old ...
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Uploading a torrent, many connections overtime, no downloads
As the title says, I'm uploading some torrents but one in particular has an OK amount of downloaders to seed to, I'm getting a nice ammount of connections, and not uploading a single bit. a few ...
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μtorrent - Display "Downloaded" in MB rather than GB?
Is there a way to display the amount downloaded in MB? For example, when a download is at 1.3 GB, show 1331 MB instead?
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How to change the torrent file name to the file/folder it's downloading?
For example, there is a torrent named: 1894515619841.torrent and the file it's downloading is called "xxxxxxxxxxxxx" so what I would like to do is change that 1894515619841.torrent to ...
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Automatically prioritize seeding torrents with few peers
Is there a way to automatically prioritize torrents which don't have enough peers over torrents with a big swarm? For instance, is it possible to seed only torrents which have fewer than 10 peers? Or ...
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Creating your own torrent
I am trying to send some files to my friend which unfortunately are too big to be sent via email. So I tried creating a torrent file so he can download them as a normal torrent. However it doesn´t ...
