BitTorrent Problem

[SladeDJWilson]

Hello,

When I download stuff on BitTorrent. My entire network stops working except for BT. Some times happens when the app is opened but not downloading. Help !

[Kilrah]

Probably crappy router that can't handle the many connections.

You can try reducing the max number of simultaneous connections in the BT client. 

[Parideboy]

2 minutes ago, SladeDJWilson said:

Hello,

When I download stuff on BitTorrent. My entire network stops working except for BT. Some times happens when the app is opened but not downloading. Help !

Check your connection limit under settings -> Connection -> Connection Limit

 

It should look like this:

Global connection: 500

Connections per torrent: 100

Global sending connections: 8

Sending connection per torrent: 4

[flashiling]

doesn't bit torrent go against some kind of copyright laws?

[nox_]

Just now, flashiling said:

doesn't bit torrent go against some kind of copyright laws?

Not necessarily, there are perfectly legal things you can download. Linux distros for example can usually be downloaded via torrents.

[Semper]

1 minute ago, flashiling said:

doesn't bit torrent go against some kind of copyright laws?

If used for illicit purposes, yes.

Torrents in and of themselves are nothing malicious or unlawful.

[flashiling]

5 minutes ago, Semper said:

If used for illicit purposes, yes.

Torrents in and of themselves are nothing malicious or unlawful.

 

6 minutes ago, nox_ said:

Not necessarily, there are perfectly legal things you can download. Linux distros for example can usually be downloaded via torrents.

ah okay, just used to hearing the worwd torrent with things like "utorrent" which reminded me of when i was a young and naiive fool <removed by staff>

20/20 wouldn't reccomend

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[nox_]

9 minutes ago, flashiling said:

ah okay, just used to hearing the worwd torrent with things like "utorrent" which reminded me of when i was a young and naiive fool <removed by staff>

20/20 wouldn't reccomend

Well, there are many torrent clients, can be used for legal things and not so much, as many things in life. I highly recommend tixati for torrenting.

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[SladeDJWilson]

14 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Probably crappy router that can't handle the many connections.

You can try reducing the max number of simultaneous connections in the BT client. 

Okay I'll try

[SladeDJWilson]

14 minutes ago, Parideboy said:

Check your connection limit under settings -> Connection -> Connection Limit

 

It should look like this:

Global connection: 500

Connections per torrent: 100

Global sending connections: 8

Sending connection per torrent: 4

Okay

[Teddy07]

14 minutes ago, flashiling said:

doesn't bit torrent go against some kind of copyright laws?

Don´t forgett that countries have different laws. What can be illegal in one can bel legal in another

[SladeDJWilson]

1 minute ago, Teddy07 said:

Don´t forgett that countries have different laws. What can be illegal in one can bel legal in another

Our laws are dumb so no problem 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

26 minutes ago, flashiling said:

doesn't bit torrent go against some kind of copyright laws?

BitTorrent is just a file sharing protocol. The legality of the data being transferred is unrelated to the technology itself. Though you could argue the most common use of BitTorrent is for piracy hence its tainted reputation. But there are legitimate uses like transferring large datasets internally. For instance, your social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. would use BitTorrent to sync and replicate their databases across multiple sites. That way the data users want to access can be from a nearby data centre rather than one halfway across the world. Your game downloads and patches from Steam or Blizzard, etc. are probably done via BitTorrent as well. It's much more reliable and generally faster than a single server to client connection. If one seeder drops out, another seeder in the pool can pick up the slack without delay. 

[Parideboy]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

are probably done via BitTorrent as well

Not BitTorrent per se, but they are using the P2P protocol (bittorrent is a client, P2P is the protocol).

As does Windows Update, for those unaware.

[Moonzy]

Try limiting your bandwidth for upload and downloads as well