Recent questions tagged torrents

Description : Torrenters who use VPNs - do you normally tunnel to the same country every day, or do you mix things up?

Last Answer : I use a third party service that torrents torrents to their servers, and I then directly download the finished files, so the man can not fuck me over for seeding.

Description : Pirate Bay is dead and gone. What will replace it?

Last Answer : I thought they were safe from the MPAA because they were not located in the US. What happened? Who seized their servers?

Description : Do you approve of the use of torrent? Why/Why not?

Last Answer : answer:I torrent. I consider what I do responsible' torrenting. That is, I download a television shows I do not have access to, since BBC's iPlayer system doesn't work for us here in the States, and ... fish games like, $30 now, since they sell full versions of most of their games for $2.99 each.

Description : Why is my ratio still low when I am seeding?

Last Answer : answer:Have you forwarded the ports correctly? If you’re not connectable, your ratio will stay low. What’s your upstream bandwidth? Seeding 5 torrents at once seems a bit excessive. I like to seed individual torrents to a good ratio then delete it, and unpause another torrent.

Description : Why are my torrents going so slow?

Last Answer : It probably means that there aren’t enough seeds.

Description : I just downloaded some movies and am heading to the US...

Last Answer : I think they have bigger fish to fry.

Description : What is your favorite Torrent Downloader/Client/Manager?

Last Answer : uTorrent has one of the lowest memory footprints. I would give it another shot. When it’s configured properly, it is my favorite Windows cilent. Transmission is my favorite Mac client.

Description : What is a torrent?

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Description : I'm having some trouble with torrents.

Last Answer : Your ISP may be throttling BT traffic or blocking the ports BT uses.

Description : How do I check if a certain port of my router is open?

Last Answer : If it makes a difference, I have Network Magic and a D-Link wireless router. (Model WBR-2310)