On Sat, 03 May 2008 13:09:32 -0700,
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wrote:

On Sat, 03 May 2008 15:19:51 -0400, default
wrote:


On Sat, 03 May 2008 12:25:44 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Sat, 3 May 2008 09:16:54 -0700, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
wrote:

Somehow I'm not understanding torrents. I tried downloading it and got a
12k file that is not readable by anything I've got on this machine.


You need a program that 'understands' torrent files, like bitTorrent,
uTorrent, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

How
about a torrent mini-tutorial posted somewhere?

Google and Wikipedia are your friends. Seriously, try putting your
question into google: "torrent tutorial."

Jim

What's the etiquette for bit torrent downloading? I'm on dial up only
and my connection is often dropped if inactive for a few minutes or
the transfer falls below 50% speed or ~2,500 bps. Does participating
cause others in the net grief, or will it cause me problems?

I can set some other program to download to keep the connection open
but that hurts the torrent . . . .


Dial up and torrents do not mix well.

A torrent application (client) often opens up 20 or 30 streams into
your PC from various locales around the world.

Having so many hooks open on a dial up connection is not very conducive
to keeping the connection "up".

There is also more overhead.

Your best bet is to learn how, and DL them here, and then put the
pieces together properly.

Thanks for the info. I had no problem DL'ing from the group; the
files are all there and readable.

I've wanted to DL Linux distros and other large files via torrent but
it didn't seem to be working well.


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