HBO Documentary involving Prius Hyper-milers

11:00 am mst

Torrent d/l: 5KB/sec, 60 hours to go
upload: 20 KB/sec

 

Stats as of 13:25 2006-05-09
Seeds seen - 9
Connected peers - 18
Seeding copies - 4.998
Total speed - 432KB/s

People are sharing! Be patient! You will get your video soon. Besides beggars cant be choosers.

Remember to leave your client open for a 1:1 share.

 

i have never done bit torrent before. just dwnld the client and i am getting nothing. is there any settings i should be looking at??

 

Leave your client open for about 30min and if your still not getting anything there could be a few thing causing the problem.

You may have a firewall blocking the ports bittorent uses.

If your using a router you will need to open ports 6881-6889 and or forwarded them to your computer.

Your ISP may be blocking those ports. :angry:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ May 9 2006, 01:34 PM) [snapback]252227[/snapback]</div>

Did you download theForces pointer file and open it ?

 

no. where is it? i only clicked on link in post

 

I left it on over night and got the file. I'm going to leave it run but I have to limit my upload to 10kB/sec or my vonage phone won't work right.

 

ok its going now. very slow but going.

 

Its good to hear and see people are downloading it just fine. I'm going to take a brake for a while but will hop back on later tonight or tomorrow to seed again. I have to use my bandwidth for some other things right now. Sucks only having about 50K sec up. But its better than nothing at all.

Just a comment on the show. I thought it was pretty good. Some stuff was a little overkill but in all I liked it.

 

OK. I finally am on a network in which I can pop open the bittorrent ports. Anybody sharing? Theforce's link is down at the moment....

 

Try it again. I deleted it thinking %99.99 of the people are finished with it seeing as I only have 2 people connected to me with over %80 finished.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ May 10 2006, 05:10 PM) [snapback]253080[/snapback]</div>

Is this the right link?
http://jaygroh.dreamhost.com/prius/HBO-Too...le-MPEG.torrent

I am getting a 404 not found error.

Thanks for setting this up.

 

It should work now. Stupid IE did not transfer the file back to my server. :angry:

 

i am dwnld'ng it and am only at 6%. its been running most of time since i started. although i only have 6% i am uploading 3-5 times faster than i am going downloading.

 

I'm trying to keep mine open for as long as possable. Going to try to keep it open for a week. So far it looks like only 2 people are conected to me right now and there are 2 seeders? Total speed right now according to my client is 27KBs. Mostly me. Looks like everyone just leeched away like normal. If anyone still has the file please help seed!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ May 10 2006, 07:26 PM) [snapback]253156[/snapback]</div>

I'm 20KB/sec upload, 28KB/sec download, 25% done, been running 2 hours, 5 hours to go.

You might want to make sure that you have a bunch of ports open in your firewall starting at 6881 and go up to at least 6889. The bittorrent protocol "rewards" those that have more open ports and share more. Not sure if this link will help but give it a try http://compnetworking.about.com/od/bittorr...orrentports.htm

When downloading this file, I went from a period of 2KB/sec to 18 KB/sec to 28 KB/sec, typical 'reward throttling' that I've seen in the past.

I have DSL, and have 2 physical firewalls at home that I have temporarily punched holes in, and have windows firewall turned off.

EDIT: Did not know this until yesterday's WB/bittorrent announcement, but at any given moment, bittorrent p2p accounts for 40-50% of internet traffic?

 

It took about a a day, but the movie arrived safe and sound, thanks to theForce.

VLC on OS X handles the format.

If someone wants the movie and cannot download, PM me. I'll either send a CD or put the file on comcast.net for retrieval.