Ian W Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Right, well i'm basically new to all this torrent stuff and downloaded Azureus this morning. I've found a torrent and started to download it but i've noticed that it's showing my 'share ratio' as being bad. Will this screw up the download or does it just make the whole process slower? Don't want to really waste time and bandwidth downloading something that won't work. This is what it looks like on the Azureus screen just now: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 stop downloading p0rn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 It won't affect the download much... some clients do prevent connection, but on the whole it will work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burna Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I wouldn't worry mate as you've got to start somewhere. When you start to get a collection of torrents that you have downloaded (and they upload) then your ratio will improve. I'm pretty sure that's how it works. I'll have a look at mine tomorrow for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 i'm still totally baffled by it all to be honest lol and i'm totally just just winging my way through it. care to give me the gist of what happens? ps thanks for your help so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Doom Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 once you've finished downloading your torrent you can leave it uploading for a while to improve your ratio. It goes on how much you've downloaded compared to how much you've uploaded. E.G. you download a 1gig movie & leave it going till you've uploaded 1gig then your ratio will be 1:1.... If you upload half a gig then your ratio will only be 0:5 .... Most of the time it doesn't matter but some torrent sites run a ratio scheme where you get banned for a low ratio.. It's supposed to keep the file sharing fair by maintaining a 1:1 ratio. Try to remember that you're downloading the file from other people, not a server somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 once you've finished downloading your torrent you can leave it uploading for a while to improve your ratio. It goes on how much you've downloaded compared to how much you've uploaded. E.G. you download a 1gig movie & leave it going till you've uploaded 1gig then your ratio will be 1:1.... If you upload half a gig then your ratio will only be 0:5 .... Most of the time it doesn't matter but some torrent sites run a ratio scheme where you get banned for a low ratio.. It's supposed to keep the file sharing fair by maintaining a 1:1 ratio. Try to remember that you're downloading the file from other people, not a server somewhere poifick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steb9780 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Your ratio always looks bad when downloading the actual file as you usually download a lot quicker than you can upload. So usually the only time that improves a lot is by leaving it running for a while when you have finished the download. As previously said by others, most sites are alright but some do want you to give as much back as you have taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 The etiquette for this is to upload as much as you download, so if you have a 1 gig file, share 1 gig via uploading too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 The etiquette for this is to upload as much as you download, so if you have a 1 gig file, share 1 gig via uploading too. right. well my computer is generally on all day so i'll just leave it on while it's being used. as an aside, i've noticed it's now stuck at 72% and my download speed has dropped quite dramatically to under 4kb/s. obviously this isn't good but is there any way around it or is it just my isp pissing about or busier time of day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibbleyuk Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I normal leave my uploads 5days mate once ive download them seems to help ya ratings try and get a 2.0 rating before i close it. i use http://www.torrent-damage.net which is a private site which is very very fast i get DL rates of 1100kb/s so if you want an invite let me know My downloads quite often drop off for a few seconds but pick up again, i think its NTL that drops off when i max out my connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 right. well my computer is generally on all day so i'll just leave it on while it's being used. as an aside, i've noticed it's now stuck at 72% and my download speed has dropped quite dramatically to under 4kb/s. obviously this isn't good but is there any way around it or is it just my isp pissing about or busier time of day? The best thing to do when looking for a file that you are after is to find one which has a lot of seeders, these are people who have the whole file and are distributing it. You connect to them to get the file in pieces, people then connect to you (peers) to get pieces of the file as well and so on. Sometimes seeders can be from different parts of the world and not everyone works on the same timezone so you might get a drop off at a certain time of day as seeders turn off their bittorrent software and go to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Well I've learnt something new today... I just download it and then remove the torrent when I revisit the PC... so that could account for the bloody slow download speeds I get..?! Is the share ratio a cumulative figure then that helps your speeds? or just an etiquette thing I've completely missed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 right. what if the number of seeds drops while i'm downloading? it seems to be going down a lot (i'm on like three seeds now) and the downloading is painfully slow. if the number of seeds drops to 0 does it cut off and i have to start again or will it pick it up when seeds become available again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 It will pick up when seeds come back on line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Have a look here for an FAQ about torrents CLICKY CLICKY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Have a look here for an FAQ about torrents CLICKY CLICKY Great site, was just about to post it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittyclaws Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I have had a little Dabble with this too. Had a slight snag when I could not open a file, think it was a RAR file, but I soon found a program to extract it. Have downloaded another file off there, but I can't seem to open or run it. It is a BIN file. Can anyone tell me how you open this etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I have had a little Dabble with this too. Had a slight snag when I could not open a file, think it was a RAR file, but I soon found a program to extract it. Have downloaded another file off there, but I can't seem to open or run it. It is a BIN file. Can anyone tell me how you open this etc? The bin file is designed to be burnt to cd using nero. You can open a bin file with "isobuster" then remove the video file from that and play it in your media player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steb9780 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Download a free program called vlc media player, it plays just about anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittyclaws Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 The bin file is designed to be burnt to cd using nero. You can open a bin file with "isobuster" then remove the video file from that and play it in your media player. Sorry, should have said, it is a program file, have downloaded a program file that was a rar file, but i soon found a program to extract it, but i can't seem to get this Bin file (program )to open up or run etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Right. It's downloaded the lot now but i'm left with this little lot: wtf do i do now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonB Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Sorry, should have said, it is a program file, have downloaded a program file that was a rar file, but i soon found a program to extract it, but i can't seem to get this Bin file (program )to open up or run etc It's a CD image, you need to burn it to a CD using Nero or another CD burning program or use a tool like daemon tools which makes it appear as another drive letter like you burnt it to a CD and then put it in a CD drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonB Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Right. It's downloaded the lot now but i'm left with this little lot: wtf do i do now? [qimg]http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i109/supra-size/Picture1-2.png[/qimg] That is a RAR archive split into several parts. It's like a zip file, you need unrar or some other utility to uncompress it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 That is a RAR archive split into several parts. It's like a zip file, you need unrar or some other utility to uncompress it. ah ok. i had an idea that's what it could be. any particular software you can recommend to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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