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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: hector on August 02, 2004, 02:39:57 PM

Title: what is bittorent?
Post by: hector on August 02, 2004, 02:39:57 PM: who can explain it thoroughly in the least amount of words possible. thanks
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: bez on August 02, 2004, 02:50:16 PM: Its when you have a friend called Torent and a dog.

If the dog doesn't like Torent then he will bite him, therefore you will say.

"I can't believe the dog bittorent."
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: hector on August 02, 2004, 02:58:33 PM: good one Jimmy Fallon
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Post by: DAYUM on August 02, 2004, 03:00:45 PM: LMAO
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Jome on August 02, 2004, 08:14:21 PM: It's a program that lets you download music/movies/software/etc. from other users on the net, via a little program called "Bit torrent", which uses a code system to authenticate files, each file is given a "torrent number" so you know what to look for.
You can download bits of the file from each user to make it fast, and when downloaded the bits are put together to one file.
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: The Watcher on August 02, 2004, 09:22:21 PM: think of kazza or edonkey, without all the spamming & viruses

you can get shit real quick depending on when it was made available. older shit can be a pain in the ass though
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: DAYUM on August 03, 2004, 04:21:40 AM: http://www.suprnova.org/

best site for bittorent
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Montana00 on August 03, 2004, 07:59:29 AM: So basically do this.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bittorrent/BitTorrent-3.4.2.exe?download

Download BT

Go to www.surpnova.org

Find what you want click the link, and then bittorrent automatically opens and asks you where do you want to put the file on your computer. then you select a folder and then it starts download.

Its extremly fast. for doom 3 i was getting 300KB/s
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: hector on August 03, 2004, 09:21:51 AM: damn good shit, Imma have to try this out.
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Throwback on August 03, 2004, 10:34:46 AM: why do you need to register and pay for www.suprnova.org now?

does some one know any good free torrent search sites
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Montana00 on August 03, 2004, 10:49:30 AM: you probably typed in .com

or supErnova

because i just clicked your link and it went to the free site.
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: hector on August 03, 2004, 11:11:53 AM: ok so I d/l it and went to that suprnova.org site. so now how do I know which ones d/l the quickest?

where it says seeds, does that mean the number of people I can d/l from?

and is downloads, the number of people in line in front of me?

thanks
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: hector on August 03, 2004, 11:16:22 AM: why does it have an upload rate for me? what the hell am I uploading and why?
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Montana00 on August 03, 2004, 02:03:39 PM: you have to upload to download....but i think theres a bt client that lets you block uploading.

Seeds is when youve completed downloading and your only uploading.
Leech is when your still downloading.
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: RXL on August 04, 2004, 03:51:24 PM: how come everything i try to dl seems to be going slow?
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Montana00 on August 04, 2004, 04:13:58 PM: 1. If you have a router you have to "open" the port.
2. There has to be seeds (people who have that file that are uploading)
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Da WCC Hopar! on August 04, 2004, 04:22:39 PM: anyone no any other sites besides suprnova
Title: Re: what is bittorent?
Post by: Montana00 on August 04, 2004, 05:40:22 PM: torrentbox.com
torrentbits.org (this one you have to register, and you have to keep an equal ratio [you have to upload as much as you download])