BITTORRENT

[Guest anon]

thanks anon, it's clearer now but still hurts 

Believe me i know.

If bittorrent is working OK its a great tool, but the tracker that manages them often fails. If people stop seeding the torrent files, it fails. etc,etc.

Its got a long way to go in my opinion.

[chris-tux]

still something is annoying me

this

[chris@tux incoming]$ btdownloadcurses.py mmove.torrent

is working. A nice window opens, and the file is saved in the dir incoming :D

but this

 [chris@tux incoming]$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 mmove.torrent
These errors occurred during execution:
[00:02:42] error: Too many args - 0 max.
run with no args for parameter explanations

is definitively

[Guest anon]

See if you can make it work with this file im testing out. Works OK for me

 

python btdownloadheadless.py --max_upload_rate 10 --url http://213.232.94.77/test/pclinuxos-1.20.04.iso.torrent --saveas /home/me/Desktop/temp/bit/

 

Change the saveas to whatever you want.

[bigjohn]

Erm, so from all that, I understand the bit about clicking the link from the torrent file that comes from mandrake.

 

but where do I get the IP address from where the torrent is actually or going to come from, because thus far, I've just cancelled it when it's told me that it's gonna take something like 448 hours 49 minutes 33 seconds or whatever.

 

I'm patient, but not that patient. Sh1t, that would work out at like nearly 20 days or so, just to get, what, about 1.8 gig's of download for all 3 cd's of 9.2 - on a half a meg broadband - not all the time my arse points downward.

 

They can stuff that. they either sell me a powerpack dvd in US$$$'s or I'll just stick with 9.1 till it's too ancient to do anything with, then uninstall it and go with gentoo (IMO urpmi is heaps better than rpm, but portage makes urpmi look like a pile of shite, and debian apt-get like a rather large fart stain).

 

Nah, nearly 20 days, that CAN'T be right?

 

regards

 

John

 

p.s. maybe someone knows how I'd install gentoo's portage into mandrake 9.1 ? :D

[fissy]

torrents tend to get faster if you leave them a good while.

[Peppercorn]

Yea I'm afraid that I'm with Big John on this one. I gave it 8 hours and it downloaded 101 meg and uploaded 181megs!!!

 

That's on a 512/128 adsl connection. I think that it sucks big time. I should be able to download a CDs worth in about 4-6 hours conservatively.

 

I might give Gentoo a go too Hummph

[chris-tux]

ok, this

python btdownloadheadless.py --max_upload_rate 10 --url http://213.232.94.77/test/pclinuxos-1.20.04.iso.torrent

or this

 btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 --url http://213.232.94.77/test/pclinuxos-1.20.04.iso.torrent

works fine.

BUT, if you dl the .torrent file "pclinuxos-1.20.04.iso.torrent" from http://213.232.94.77

and then

btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 pclinuxos-1.20.04.iso.torrent

there is a problem

however

btdownloadcurses.py pclinuxos-1.20.04.iso.torrent

is still working fine !!!

[Guest anon]

Well at least it works one way :D

Why would you want to d-load it first though?

[devries]

Because when the download is interrupted you need the torrent to continue downloading.

 

I use SHADOW bittorrentclient (http://bt.degreez.net/). You get a decent GUI to edit your preferences and there is some download optimization. Installation is easy, just untar and associate .torrent with btdowloadgui.py. That's it.

 

A reason why you should use bittorrent is suprnova.org. :)

[roland]

I've just cancelled it when it's told me that it's gonna take something like 448 hours 49 minutes 33 seconds or whatever.

I've tried torrent for the first time friday to download 10.0 Beta2. Worked fine, very easy. Yeah it started slow then it gets faster and faster. Most of the download was at 160 Kbps, upload at 35 Kbps. Not the fastest download I've got but correct. I guess the speed depend on the number of people dowloading the same file at the same time.

 

roland