How to use Bittorrent in OS/2
dinkmeister
favorite operating system and Warpvision/Z!? Heres what to do:
Download Python/2 from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/python-2.3.2-emx-bin-031019.zip
Bittorrent client from
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html
(get the .zip version of the source)
unzip both into c:\tor (or whereever you'd like)
go into the subdirectories (bittorrent-3.3 & python232) and move
everything to c:\tor. If you plan on using python for anything else,
you might want to do a proper installation. these quick-dox just tell
you how to get bittorrent working without adding any crap to your config.sys
Now create a file in c:\tor called get.cmd with:
@echo off
set TERMINFO=c:\tor\terminfo
python btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 15 %1
change the terminfo path and max upload rate to whatever you'd like.
now, go to a bittorrent site such as www.suprnova.org and download
some .torrent files (hold shift+click in Mozilla), such as
"Freddy vs Jason SVCD SCREENER-ViPER.torrent" directly into c:\tor
and go to c:\tor and execute: get "Freddy vs Jason SVCD SCREENER-ViPER.torrent"
(if the .torrent file has spaces, make sure to use quotes!)
sooner or later, the download should start - if you get a "tracker" error,
just leave the window open, it'll find some hosts to download from when
they are available.
Sure, this method is a bit different than traditional p2p apps for downloading
stuff, but you'll have better luck getting larger files this way.
If you're familiar with irc and file server bots, check out #torrents and
#bittorrent on the efnet irc network for tons of .torrent files for almost
any movie imaginable.
best regards,
- dink
Wayne
>So, you want some of the latest movies and music to use with your
>favorite operating system and Warpvision/Z!? Heres what to do:
>Download Python/2 from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/python-2.3.2-emx-bin-031019.zip
>Bittorrent client from
>http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html
>(get the .zip version of the source)
Don't dare mention the word 'Bittorent' in the Mandrake groups :-) A lot
of people (Club memebers) are swearing and cussing at that useless
piece of junk. Unfortunately, Mandrake released 9.2 to club members
using it and a lot of people gave up and are waiting till the ISO's are
released to the masses!
Cheers
Wayne
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Brad BARCLAY
> Don't dare mention the word 'Bittorent' in the Mandrake groups :-) A lot
> of people (Club memebers) are swearing and cussing at that useless
> piece of junk. Unfortunately, Mandrake released 9.2 to club members
> using it and a lot of people gave up and are waiting till the ISO's are
> released to the masses!
BitTorrent works best when lots of people are running it, and when
people who have completed their downloads leave it up and running, so
others can gain access to the file data.
I've retreived a few large files via BitTorrent on my Linux box
(Knoppix comes to mind) -- and typically I have to leave them running
all night. You'll often see the transfer go really fast for a time, and
then absolutely crawl. You could pretty much tell that someone had
completed their download and simply shut their client down, causing
everyone who was drawing from them to start sucking from another, slower
source.
Users behind firewalls don't necessarily help the situation -- they may
be pulling data (and sucking bandwidth), but don't contribute to the
network by becoming a transmitter.
Of course, BitTorrent is great for the person actually releasing the
large files, as they don't have to have thousands of people bogging
their servers down. The load gets distributed, and the original server
isn't obliterated in the process.
I typically try to leave the BitTorrent client running for at least 24
hours after I receive a large file in order to help others get the data
quickly -- then again, I run it on a headless Linux box which has more
than enough bandwidth and timeslices to leave it running in the background.
Brad BARCLAY
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