Guides/FAQ

• What is BitTorrent?
• BitTorrent Frequently Asked Questions
• Wikipedia - BitTorrent
• Portforward.com - Check out how to do portforwarding here
• Fix Slow Downloads or High Uploads on BT - Read this first before posting
• Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide
• Tweaking your system to get the most out of BitTorrent
• NatCheck - Check your port forwarding and bittorrent setup.
• DeHackEd's torrent decoder - Check torrent information. Useful to retrieve hash ID for NatCheck.
• Azureus upload settings calculator
• Host and share your torrents using Azureus

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• DO NOT DISCUSS WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD. Only BT clients, URLs and problems are allowed. Offenders will get a warning.
• Related to the statement above, please DO NOT post question regarding why your file(s) downloaded through BT cannot be open; we're not providing support for the content that you've downloaded from BT. Check this thread if the file extension is new to you.
• Please read the first post before asking question like "My BT download so slow (around 10KBps), can anyone help? "
• This is NOT a torrent sharing thread. In other words, refrain from posting question such as "Does anyone know where to download Small Ville Season 1 episode 3?"
• Lowyat.NET BitTorrent Policy applies at all times.

Important Notes

• Bragging posts on miscapped (legally or illegaly) WILL NOT be tolerated. Your post will be deleted and if repeated, you would be warned.
• Maximum speeds of a 1Mbps (Megabits/second) connection is 128KB/s (Kilobytes/second) while a 512Kbps (Kilobits/second) connection is 64KB/s (Kilobytes/second) without any overheads taken into account and with your line being in a perfect condition. This is a theoretical maximum value and would never be achievable under real-life conditions.
• Usual maximum speeds should be generally be 5-10% lower than the speed stated above, so do not expect for miracles to happen even with numerous performance

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This post has been edited by shockw@ve: Jul 2 2006, 12:53 PM

If you want to use those ports, just change the port used for incoming connections to that in Preferences->Network. Protocol encryption can be enabled there as well.

Bitcomet is generally more aggresive than other clients so that may explain why you get faster speeds using it.

This post has been edited by shockw@ve: May 3 2006, 05:05 PM

If your BT client and router supports UPnP, then you do not need to do any port forwarding as UPnP would forward the port when required and remove it when it's no longer needed.

However, it is not possible for UPnP to remove manually added port forwards.

BT is a P2P protocol so there's no single server but essentially all peers function as server/client at the same time. The TCP/IP optimizer at speedguide.net modifies Windows registry settings and I don't think there are any crashing effects by using it.

Port forwarding is required for any BT client regardless of version if you do not have UPnP enabled in your router unless you don't mind extremely slow speeds.

I'm not sure where you got that impression from, but it doesn't make any sense to me how that conclusion can be obtained..

It will auto upgrade if you just install it without prior uninstallation. Some software would automatically trigger the uninstallation if that's needed.

Make sure UDP is forwarded as well and not only TCP.

This post has been edited by shockw@ve: Sep 8 2006, 07:16 AM

Keep your rants to this thread and only this thread: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=321462

There's more than adequate information on how to get your BT setup right in this thread, and if all you can do is rant, no one is going to be able to help you out.

You've been warned once for spamming all over tech support and networks forums with that post, and if you continue on, you will be suspended.

This post has been edited by shockw@ve: Sep 15 2006, 05:26 PM

That shouldn't be the case. If you save to the exact same location, BitComet would definitely do a hash check of the files before continuing.

It's only when you're switching between different BT clients where you might have to do some extra work before it resumes properly (e.g. by default BitComet suffixes .bc!, µTorrent .!ut, Azureus with no suffix for incomplete files) and you would have to rename the files accordingly to get the hash checking done appropriately.

It probably would not work since the tcpip.sys file should differ (or it could possibly be a different type of TCP/IP stack implementation).

-thread merged-

What do you mean by 'become a single file again'? If you copy and paste a file from one computer to another, that file is recreated again at the other with everything intact.

All you have to do is just copy the file(s) across and reopen the torrent file in the other computer and download to the same location and it will automatically do a hash check of the file(s) you already have and resume downloading from there.