Gaming Torrent speeds

[playallday]

EDIT: New thing, I heard that if you don't seed all of what you downloaded or seed it at a low speed you'll get banned! Is this true? He says that he turns off hes computer every time hes done downloading or whatever he wanted to do.

 

[Deleted-119707]

it should say how long there is left

 

[laminaatplaat]

Most torrent clients have a ETA counter somewhere on the screen, he should take a look at that. Of course you'll just have to hope your download stays stable. He could also divide the total size of the download by the download speed I guess...

 

[playallday]

nvm

 

[Trolly]

There's no way of telling. One of the major problems with torrents.

 

[playallday]

nvm

 

[playallday]

nvm

 

[arctic_flame]

I email him and he replied that hes internet cuts off a lot more now (like 50 times an hour). Why?

EDIT: Sorry, double post.

Most likely to be a combination of a cheap wireless access point/router dropping the connection and how badly the windows wireless stack handles itself in that situation.

Edit: clarity.

 

[playallday]

nvm

 

[playallday]

Edited first post. If I didn't double post you'd miss it.

 

[elenar]

EDIT: New thing, I heard that if you don't seed all of what you download or seed it at a low speed you'll get banned! Is this true?

This is something that is based on the tracker you are using. Public trackers don't do this, private servers sometimes do.

 

[playallday]

EDIT: New thing, I heard that if you don't seed all of what you download or seed it at a low speed you'll get banned! Is this true?

This is something that is based on the tracker you are using. Public trackers don't do this, private servers sometimes do.

How can I tell? Thank you!

EDIT: I am using *so**ut, did the *'s to not get banned. It's a well known one.

 

[enarky]

WTF is going on in this thread? It makes no sense.

 

[playallday]

WTF is going on in this thread? It makes no sense.

I didn't want to post a new thread so I just edited it. You'll never get it.

 

[enarky]

WTF is going on in this thread? It makes no sense.

I didn't want to post a new thread so I just edited it. You'll never get it.

Umh, did it *ever* occur to you that this is *why* you post new threads in the first place?

 

[playallday]

WTF is going on in this thread? It makes no sense.

I didn't want to post a new thread so I just edited it. You'll never get it.

Umh, did it *ever* occur to you that this is *why* you post new threads in the first place?

Well its all about Torrents. It's not like DS to PSP. Last time I did that with GnM everyone got mad.

 

[JaySee]

Usenet > Torrents.

 

[playallday]

Usenet > Torrents.

I know Torrents are slow, fat and don't look good but they have some files that are only there.

 

[Urza]

Usenet > Torrents.

 

[Trolly]

Well, this is new to me, what's Usenet? Never even heard of it.

Oh, and if the site you are downloading from is public and doesn't require a login, you won't get banned (which your friend is probably using).
If, however, you want generally faster speeds and rarer files & games, private trackers that need logins come into play. They then usually have a system where you need to keep a certain upload/download ratio.
But yeah, don't worry about it unless you've gone on a site like that.