[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Locke.

I have 33 seeds out of 231, is that good?

no
seeds are the people who are uploading
and peers are the people who are downloading (like you)
the more people uploading compared to the people downloading, the faster you download

[Locke.]

It says 3(231) under peers?

[MrGaryy]

tbh, I found torrent to be not worth the hassle and time. I just use direct download links, so much easier.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Locke.

I have 33 seeds out of 231, is that good?

Its not so much how many seeds you have as how much they send to you, a couple of good seeds pumping you parts of a file at a high rate(80+kb/s) is better than lots of seeds feeding you 1kb/s.

Generally though with a reasonable number of seeds you should get a decent download rate. Just depends what way they have their torrent client(bit torrent, utorrent, Vuse etc) set up to upload. For the moment I would recommend you leaving your torrent program at its default.

Just remember to seed after you have finished downloading till you at least acheive a ratio of 1 in other words you have given to others what you received.

DONT HIT AND RUN!

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Locke.

It says 3(231) under peers?

the number before the brackets is how many you have direct connection to, the number in the brackets is how many people in the swarm, (either are seeding totally or are downloading) depending which column you are reading.

you may only have direct connection to a couple of seeds and a couple of peers however they may have direct connections to a lot more so as they get packets of info you may be offered them.

I normally force start a torrent and leave the computer on overnight as there are more torrent users in the states etc who come online and upload when i would be in bed with the comp off.

[Ramsay]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Just remember to seed after you have finished downloading till you at least acheive a ratio of 1 in other words you have given to others what you received.

DONT HIT AND RUN!

how do you seed?

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Karl.

how do you seed?

Seeding is when you just leave it alone after it has downloaded and don't delete it, it gives others a chance to download it.

[AJ.]

You should sign up to a private tracker instead of using public, the police check some torrents on public (mostly music & new games/films) but you should be fine with tv.

On private it tracks how much you've downloaded & uploaded so hardly anyone hit & runs (loads of seeds, low amount of leechers = very fast) Million times safer compared to public.

You should check out filesharefreak or filenetworkblog to see which private trackers are open for signups.

[Locke.]

It's going fast now, saying it'll only take 1 more hour to complete the download.

Thanks for the tips guys. And will look into that in the morning, Deejay

[ElProximo]

Yes, in case anyone was still wondering you have to download a little application and 'bitTorrent' seems to work fine.

Half those torrent sites do seem to be 'adware' or require sign-ups and don't really have much.

For whatever reason I find isohunt.com rules and I never have any problems

[AJ.]

UKNova - private tracker for UK tv.
TheBox - even better but not open signups
FileShareFreak - torrent info

Both have 1 or 2 series of BB.

I'm on a few private sites and get free invites every month, they get deleted if I don't use them so let me know if you want one.

[Jessica.]

This is the one I use the most.
http://thepiratebay.org/

I started using this one today (free to sign up)
http://thebox.bz/main.php

and my torrent client is utorrent.

I read somewhere that it helps if you close all other applications that use the internet, it gives the torrent client better strength. So like if you close your browser and msn etc.. the torrent download may speed up a bit.

[AJ.]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

I started using this one today (free to sign up)
http://thebox.bz/main.php

Lucky getting in before it got closed, its been closed to new members for months.

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by DeejayAJ

Lucky getting in before it got closed, its been closed to new members for months.

Oh wow. It's been very useful. I'm seeding for them at the moment.

[Novo]

The Police will be knocking on your door in about 2 hours

asking you to pay a £100,000 fine

[Stu]

Download VLC Player if you have not already, that way you will never have to worry about file formats. It's seems to play anything you throw at it.

Have to admit, I never seed. Four years and counting of hit and running.

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Stu

Download VLC Player if you have not already, that way you will never have to worry about file formats. It's seems to play anything you throw at it.

Have to admit, I never seed. Four years and counting of hit and running.

nah vlc player is for rookies
use mpc home cinema, its much better

[Stu]

Originally Posted by ILoveTRW

nah vlc player is for rookies
use mpc home cinema, its much better

VLC get's the job done for me. I have no possible use for anything else.

Rookies lol. It's just software.

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Stu

VLC get's the job done for me. I have no possible use for anything else.

Rookies lol. It's just software.

come on stu
you really do need to open your eyes a bit more

[Stu]

Takes too much effort.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

I read somewhere that it helps if you close all other applications that use the internet, it gives the torrent client better strength. So like if you close your browser and msn etc.. the torrent download may speed up a bit.

Set up a static IP and open a port for the torrent client you use. Go to www.portforward.com and do it manually. Not only will this increase the torrent speeds, on some private trackers it allows you to downlaod some torrents hours or even days before people who dont. They class it as being 'connectable'