I'm at my wits end. For me, to download a movie (ok, its porn) it literally takes months to finish the download. How do you make it download faster?
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I've pretty much given up on Emule and switched over to Torrents. Big improvement. And I'm not even on Rogers.
I've tried usig torrents but i find it difficult to use. I read a thread here about using torrents for dummies and it didn't help. Perhaps they should make torrents for bumbling idiots. Is there any specific torrents i should be using?
incognito said:
Here is a good site to help you.
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8690
It has info on all file sharing technologies. I would have to agree though that it is worth to take the time to figure out Bittorents as it is far easier & faster than emule.
incognito said:
If you're using Rogers cable and Windows XP, open the Control Panel, then open Windows Firewall. In the Exceptions tab, Add ports for eMule, 1720 for TCP and 1755 for UDP. Set these as the same ports for Emule in Options -> Connection. Restart your computer.
If you have installed Bitcomet, you now need to find some torrent files to download. try http://www.mininova.org to start.
Torrents are great if you're looking for new and very popular files. The more upload bandwidth you offer, the more download bandwidth you will receive. A few days ago, I completely downloaded an episode of Trailer Park Boys in less than 17 minutes.
Find a torrent for a file you want, and save it by double-clicking the link and selecting the save option. Then double click the saved torrent file link, and BitComet will start, and look for sources from which you can download. The torrent file is usually less than 100 kb. You don't need it after you have started to download.
Torrents are not as good for older or less popular files. A lot of files drop off torrents fairly quickly, because the people who downloaded them stop sharing their completed files.
eMule's good for files with few complete sources. The search engine on eMule is also much better than any of the ones on torrent trackers. Generally, You will not find DVDs on eMule, but you will find compressed versions of DVDs, usually in divx or xvid .avi files. If there are 25 or more sources on eMule, you should be able to get a complete file of 700 MB or less in 2½ days.
Some files with a single complete source can take weeks or months to complete, particularly if a lot of other people want a file shared by the person with the only complete file, and if that person is not always connected to eMule. You don't keep your place in queue if the person who has a file you want disconnects from eMule. They might also unshare the file before you have it complete, in which case, it may remain incomplete forever, or until you cancel it.
You have to wait a lot longer for files on eMule because other people want the same file or different files from the people who have the files you want. Many people run eMule on low bandwidth, so it can take hours or days to move up the queue from a low position.
On torrents, files are usually broken up into very small pieces, often around 256 kb. When you're downloading, you can receive any piece, in any sequence, from any uploader who has a piece that you don't have. Your file's complete when you have all the pieces. BitComet places them in the correct sequence, and creates a permanent file, rather than a temporary partial file, when you have them all.
On eMule, the 'chunks' are 9.28 MB or less. If the file size doesn't divide evenly by 9.28 MB, one piece will be smaller, or there will be only one piece if the complete file is less than 9.28 MB. As with torrents, you can download the chunks in any sequence, and eMule creates a permanent file when you have all of the pieces.
Some people have their eMule setup to upload full chunks to each person in queue, (Options ->Files), while some people will have the queue turnover quickly, and it's pot luck as to how much of a chunk you receive in any given download from that user. Even if the full chunk option is in effect, it doesn't always work. If you are downloading, (rather than in queue), when a random server change occurs, your download might terminate prematurely.
If you are firewalled on eMule, you will have a low ID, meaning that you can't download from other firewalled users unless both of you are connected to the same server, and sometimes, not even then. You may find, if you are firewalled and using Rogers, that you can only upload to and download from, people connected to the same eMule server.
There are some ways to reconfigure the ports on the router to compensate for this, but instructions on how to do that are beyond my expertise. I call my geek for anything to do with hardware.
I didn`t have the patience either at the time I first tried to figure it out. Then I found out you can download torrents straight from your browser (I posted about it here: https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=119172 and I think there`s an extension available for Firefox as well). I`d like to know if it`s just as effective as a dedicated torrent program though.incognito said:
incognito said:
Now find whatever you want, do a search, www.isohunt.com
When you found what you want, download the torrent (to somewhere you'll remember the location).
Open BitComet, then click "OPEN".
Find the location of where you saved the torrent to.
Double click it.
Click OK in the window that pops up.
That's it (now hopefully, there are people out there seeding the file you want).
If not, you won't get it.
Usually it's the more popular stuff that there contains more seeders.
Don't forget, ya you can download, BUT, if you don't upload (seed), it'll show on your stats, and in the future, if you ever want to download, some people will check your uploads v.s. downloads.
If your downloads are higher, then others might may not want to share with someone who constantly "leeches".
Torrents are OK, if you have lots of time and patience, and can set up the encryption, the ports, the firewall, and the upload rate correctly. You also need be in an area without heavy torrent use, as the traffic is limited for this protocol.
Newsgroups are so much easier. Just search www.newzbin.com for the title, fire up you news reader software (GrabIt is free and works well) and you will have the movie when you want it. I convert the movie files back to R/W DVD's, and the quality is amazing.
For only $18/month you could sign up for an unlimited download account from newshosting.com and download all the movies, mp3's (or any software) you can handle at your full Rogers speed, all the time.
I picked up Lucky Number Slevin yesterday. Within a few hours I had downloaded the movie, converted it back to DVD and had it on the big screen.
Newsgroups are so much easier. Just search www.newzbin.com for the title, fire up you news reader software (GrabIt is free and works well) and you will have the movie when you want it. I convert the movie files back to R/W DVD's, and the quality is amazing.
For only $18/month you could sign up for an unlimited download account from newshosting.com and download all the movies, mp3's (or any software) you can handle at your full Rogers speed, all the time.
I picked up Lucky Number Slevin yesterday. Within a few hours I had downloaded the movie, converted it back to DVD and had it on the big screen.
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