Questions tagged [bittorrent]
Widely-used peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
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How to keep files downloaded with qBittorrent defragmented on BtrFS?
Files downloaded over the BitTorrent protocol are naturally fragmented as they're downloaded from pieces in irregular order.
This reduces performance when reading such files on classical HDDs. How to ...
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How to add a remote folder using command line in Resilio Sync?
I have a folder that's currently shared by another machine running Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync). How do I grant a new machine access to this share using the config file? I don't want to use ...
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port forwarding - Transmission torrent client
I have a problem related to Transmission torrent client. Specifically on a Fedora 23 Linux distribution.
My goal is to increase download speed and surfing on the internet. I found out the best way to ...
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How does BitTorrent's use of DHT help peers find target files?
I have read about Kademlia and understood the basic concepts of that. The basic concepts of BitTorrent are also simply understood. But both if them together make no sense at all.
From what i have been ...
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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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How can I resume movie download in BitTorrent?
I was downloading a movie using BitTorrent and i paused it after reaching 58%. But I can't resume it now. It's showing "connecting to peers" for over an hour. What should I do?? Should I cancel and ...
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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 ...
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Chrome on W10 cannot remember my default magnet handler
In chrome://settings/handlers, for magnet links, I can see my BitTorrent client's URL.
However the default is always missing, so I click on the 3 dot menu and Set as default
A Default will be added ...
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Windows 11 (and Chrome) doesn't allow me to associate torrent magnet files
I'm using Transmission on Windows 11 and whenever I click on a magnet file in Chrome (which uses the OS file associations), I get the popup:
But when I go under Settings > Apps > Default apps ...
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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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Created torrent goes automatically to Errored and it doesn't work
I want to share some files between two computers in different locations, but because they are big I choose to try to use torrent, more precisely qBittorrent.
To do that, I opened it, went to Tools / ...
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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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How does uploading work in BitTorrent? [closed]
I'm building a BitTorrent client in C++ by following this https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification.
I am able to download pieces from peers successfully. I have a couple of questions regarding ...
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locate incomplete files that were downloaded with utorrent
There are a lot of files downloaded with utorrent on one of my hard drives but some of them are incomplete because I interrupted the process of downloading, because I re-installed Windows and now I ...
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Magnet not redirecting on uTorrent
On downloading VLC Torrent Streamer, the torrent magnets now get redirected to VLC, and I am unable to change it back to uTorrent. I tried deleting the magnet-redirect plugin that got installed in VLC,...
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QNap download station does not upload
I am using Download Station on my QNap NAS TS 253-B. I have been downloading a number of torrents. But the Download Station does not seem to be seeding/uploading. This is going to destroy my ratio at ...
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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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Excessive torrenting and hard drive health
I tend to download about 100GB stuff every month and most of it over torrent and I have been doing this for almost 2 years.
I download things to my windows drive and then move them to other locations.
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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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After a while downloading torrents my network card stops working properly
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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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Are there any place where I can get legitimate software via torrent? [closed]
The internet speed I have far exceeds the speeds I'm able to access via some sites to download software.
Example:
I've discovered that torrent is a good solution for this, Ubuntu ISO files being a ...
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Huge speed fluctuations when downloading files on Torrent. What can I do to fix this?
Anyone can possibly explain me why am I getting these huge fluctuations?
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How can I run one instance of qBittorrent connected to a VPN and one instance bypassing the VPN connection on a Raspberry Pi?
I have a use case that requires one instance of qBittorrent to connect through a VPN and another instance that does not. I'd like to run both on a single Raspberry Pi. I am using PrivateInternetAccess ...
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Does it make sense to find 2160p/1080p version of old movies? [closed]
Sometimes we encounter old movies labeled with 2160p or 1080p on the internet and they are indeed as large in size as more recent high-resolution movies.
But does it make sense or is it meaningful to ...
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Qbittorrent leaking, or plain user error?
I was torrenting open-source software, and received a DMCA email (which was bogus). I always keep a VPN on when I surf the web, but I had just updated OpenVPN and my qBittorrent client was not ...
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Can one single torrent use more than one connection to download
I have downloaded an application called utorrent. I have three separate adsl connections running simultaneously on the same computer. Now can the application like utorrent have a single torrent (say ...
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How do I detect duplicate files inside and across torrents?
If I'm downloading a bunch of torrents, is there a way or a client that detects files already downloaded and stops downloading them?
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Clarifying from the comments. Yes this means finding ...
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BitTorrent Protocol Seeding
Let's say there's a seeder that does not have UPnP enabled nor does he have port forwarding set up. Does the seeder initiate connections with other nodes that do have port forwarding enabled to seed ...
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Torrents cause all other ethernet and wifi to drop out completely
Ive just switched ISP and now whenever I use torrents only the machine downloading gets internet.
All other ethernet connections drop out as if they've been disconnected and the wifi network ...
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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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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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Shared torrent client between computers on network
Basically what I have are 2 computers on my network. Both have a torrent client (currently utorrent) and each computer downloads whatever torrents are needed. BUT because most of the torrents I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chrome beta keeps forgetting default BitTorrent for magnet links
It was working on Chrome. I installed Chrome Beta. On Chrome Beta, it keeps asking if Vuze (my BitTorrent client) should be used to open the magnet link despite clicking the checkbox. I uninstalled ...
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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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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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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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How can a torrent be downloaded faster than the speed of my Internet connection?
I have a 256 kbit/s connection and normally see download speeds around 30 kilobytes/second.
However, sometimes when I download torrents the download speed shows as 1.1 MBps. How is this possible?
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transmission-daemon changes config folder on reboot
I am not sure why but transmission seems to be changing my settings on reboot.
The folder where the settings are being held is
/etc/transmission-daemon.
I run the command
sudo service transmission-...
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How can I download a torrent in reverse order of pieces?
I mean we have this option of downloading sequentially, and first-and-last pieces order.. but what I need is a last-piece-first order!
Any method that can achieve that?
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As to why I need it(...
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Is it possible to continue torrent downloads from another client?
I downloaded a torrent file using Bitlord, and because it doesn't have features like initial seeding, I decided to use uTorrent. I've already tried to continue it. What I did was:
Opened the original ...
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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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