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Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by diskjocki, Jun 4, 2009.

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  1. diskjocki

    diskjocki Well-Known Member

    When I download a torrent with utorrent it downloads and stuff fine but I think it goes slower 'cause of the upload speed thingie. I have no idea what it does, and how am I uploading something when I'm downloading something ??? Also how do I make it stop uploading or whatever it's doing?
    Sorry if I'm not making much sense.
     
    diskjocki, Jun 4, 2009
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you can't make it stop uploading, the entire concept of bittorrent is that you upload at the same time as you download, since if no-one uploaded no one would be able to download either. You can limit the upload speed in options, you want to set the limit to 80% of your connection upload speed.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 4, 2009
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  3. ICE-X

    ICE-X Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I have to set mine to 75 kb/s max because my ISP limits download speed if I upload at max speed. To change it just right-click on where it says how fast you're uploading and pick the number that's 80% of your max upload speed.
     
    ICE-X, Jun 4, 2009
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I doubt it, its probably just your line saturating and slowing the download.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 4, 2009
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  5. diskjocki

    diskjocki Well-Known Member

    How do I find out my connection upload speed?
     
    diskjocki, Jun 4, 2009
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    www.speedtest.net. Make sure you close utorrent first.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 4, 2009
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  7. grimsim1

    grimsim1 Well-Known Member

    Almo has a fantastic torrent tutorial in the "tutorials section" that can be found here:
    https://www.romulation.org/forum/index.php?topic=10664.0

    Teaches you everything about Torrents. Well done Almo.
     
    grimsim1, Jun 4, 2009
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  8. diskjocki

    diskjocki Well-Known Member

    What's 80% of 0.15 MB?
     
    diskjocki, Jun 5, 2009
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  9. meganova

    meganova Well-Known Member

    does the content of the files will corrupt if i 'stop' it and then 'resume' it?
     
    meganova, Jun 5, 2009
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  10. equitypetey

    equitypetey Well-Known Member

    no you can start and stop it as much as you like

    and @diskjocki have you forwarded your ports as utorrent can be slow unless you do
     
    equitypetey, Jun 5, 2009
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  11. meganova

    meganova Well-Known Member

    then why the size of the file won't change?
    but the percentages are increased?
     
    meganova, Jun 5, 2009
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    80% of 0.15 is about 10-12KB/s

    The file is probably preallocated, this means space equal to the total size of what you are downloading is filled up with rubbish data, which gets overwritten as the real data is downloaded.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 5, 2009
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  13. meganova

    meganova Well-Known Member

    Then..
    does that mean it was re-started again?!
     
    meganova, Jun 5, 2009
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  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, it resumes where it left off.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 5, 2009
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  15. Blade5406

    Blade5406 Well-Known Member

    as long as there are are seeds...
     
    Blade5406, Jun 5, 2009
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  16. meganova

    meganova Well-Known Member

    I thought it was restarted..right now,it was 83.7%...
    I will never use it again if the file is corrupted....
     
    meganova, Jun 5, 2009
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  17. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    the bittorrent protocol is immune to corruption unless the original file was corrupt.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 5, 2009
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  18. diskjocki

    diskjocki Well-Known Member

    Forward ports? I thought you only had to do that if you have a router, which I don't have.
     
    diskjocki, Jun 5, 2009
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  19. equitypetey

    equitypetey Well-Known Member

    are you on dial up then?
     
    equitypetey, Jun 5, 2009
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  20. diskjocki

    diskjocki Well-Known Member

    No I'm using broadband, I don't have a phone line, and my modem's on the roof :S
     
    diskjocki, Jun 6, 2009
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