Re: Grand Designs Episode 3 BitTorrent Release

[ho yin ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

Doogie,

Can you keep the seeds up till after the weekend?

I want to download them .. and i will continue seeding if people want them
on and over the weekend.

I won't be home till Friday to download them.

Many thanks,


Ho Yin

At 12:14 05/02/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>In anticipation of people having missed last night's Grand Designs,
I've
>got a Torrent up and running (had some problems with my tracker, but
>sorted now :)) It cuts off at the end before the credits (didn't get
any
>extra padding :( ) but it only misses Kevin's last summing-up. The
>website of the build is <http://cloud8.org.uk/>http://cloud8.org.uk/ with
>particular UKHA
>relevance in <http://cloud8.org.uk/bmis.html>http://cloud8.org.uk/bmis.html
>
>Existing BitTorrent users, here's the link:-
><http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns3.mpg.torrent>http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns3.mpg.torrent
>
>(previous episodes of this series are still currently available but not
>for too long!
><http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns2.mpg.torrent>http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns2.mpg.torrent
>http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns1.mpg.torrent
>)
>
>Newbies:-
>
>The file on my site is a few k and is a BitTorrent file. BitTorrent is
a
>peer-2-peer file sharing system.
>
>First thing you'll need is a BitTorrent client. My favourite client
with
>the most features is ABC -
><http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/>http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/
>download
>that (or any other BitTorrent client program)
>
>Once you have a client, you want to give it the torrent file - either
>save to disc from the link I gave and double click it
>(<http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns3.mpg.torrent)>http://www.doogiebrodie.com/torrents/GrandDesigns3.mpg.torrent)
>, or
>ABC has the ability to directly add from URLs which you can use.
>
>After this happens, your client will scan for seeds - people with the
>file available and their client open and allowing upload. At the
moment,
>there is only 1 seed, me! Your client tries to connect to as many seeds
>as possible and download random bits of the file to assemble it. The
>more seeds that have the file available, the faster your download will
>happen (obviously limited by the speed of your connection though!) So
as
>more people start to download, the number of seeds increases.
>
>One of the major problems that people get is a speed issue if they're
>behind a NAT'd connection (firewall, router etc). If this is the case
>and you get very low download speeds (eg < 1k/sec), then you'll want
to
>setup port forwarding on your router - forward TCP ports 6881 through
>6999 to the machine running the client.
>
>In BitTorrent, the general etiquette is to have your client open and
>uploading the file for as long as possible after the download has
>completed, to keep it available to others as fast as possible. This is
>particularly important with a release like this, since it's a small
>group of users on UKHA_D.
>
>Hope that explains everything! If you have any further questions, drop
>me a mail *OFF-LIST*
>
>Cheers
>
>--
>Doogie
>
>
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