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Old 07-04-2009, 07:16 AM #1
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I am downloading a film using uTorrent.

It says that the download time to take is 3 days?

Is that right?

I started to download a few minutes ago. It is currently 0% complete. Although it is downloading as the download time is running.
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Old 07-04-2009, 07:22 AM #2
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OK. It is currently at 0.2%.
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And it keeps changing from 2 days to 3 days then to 4 days and then back again.
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LOL it does not like you...
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Old 07-04-2009, 07:28 AM #5
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It is only a film I am dowloading.

About 100 mins long.
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How do you download something from uTorrent, I want to but I don't know how. :/
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OK. It is currently at 0.2%.
its totally dependant on you internet connection! And what time of day you download it!

between 10pm and 4am is when you get the faster download speeds because the seeders are are all online in America!!

at home here i get about 200k/bs were as in glasgow it's nearer 500k/bs
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OK. It is currently at 0.2%.
its totally dependant on you internet connection! And what time of day you download it!

between 10pm and 4am is when you get the faster download speeds because the seeders are are all online in America!!

at home here i get about 200k/bs were as in glasgow it's nearer 500k/bs
So it should speed up at 10amish?
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How do you use uTorrent? I want to download something.
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How do you use uTorrent? I want to download something.
Dowload it. Search for a torrent online. And it will automatically download in uTorrent. But it might probably take ages.
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Sorry I dont use torrents, I download my videos from media converter via youtube/dailymotin
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I just usually leave it on overnight. And always download the torrent with the most seeds, faster that way
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I gave up using torrents lmfao.
They were always slow unless my bf did it for me lol.
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No, it speeds up, mine has said 2 years before :/
I just leave them overnight and they are normally done in the morning.
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No, it speeds up, mine has said 2 years before :/
I just leave them overnight and they are normally done in the morning.
lol

I started it 4 hours ago. It says 8.4% complete. It is gonna take over 1 day it says.
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No, it speeds up, mine has said 2 years before :/
I just leave them overnight and they are normally done in the morning.
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I started it 4 hours ago. It says 8.4% complete. It is going to take over 1 day it says.
Films usually take about a day to download, just a bit less than a day. Leave your computer on over night and it will be done in the morning, it speeds up and slows down at different times.
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No, it speeds up, mine has said 2 years before :/
I just leave them overnight and they are normally done in the morning.
lol

I started it 4 hours ago. It says 8.4% complete. It is going to take over 1 day it says.
Films usually take about a day to download, just a bit less than a day. Leave your computer on over night and it will be done in the morning, it speeds up and slows down at different times.
OK.

But I wanted to watch it today. lol
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It also goes faster if you're not doing anything on it whilst its downloading, thats why it normally completes overnight.
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It also goes faster if you're not doing anything on it whilst its downloading, thats why it normally completes overnight.
I see.
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Most of the time when i download a film it can take about 8 hours to 1day
BTW i download all my hannah montana episodes from someone called Ivan_PS3 on http://www.mininova.org/
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What percentage is it on now?
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What percentage is it on now?
10.5%
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I usually get between 10-50 kB/s for movies from piratebay. Your actually downloading from 40 or 50 other computers across the internet, it's not all downloading from one site so depends on how many other users have the file. Make sure, if you using utorrent, that you have the little green tick down at the bottom of the utorrent screen... it means your network is ok and you setup utorrent properly.
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10.5%
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I gave up on torrents - using file hosting websites is so much easier and faster. I downloaded a 901KB film last night in under 2 hours.
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