mwg
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What site is best to use and how do I do it?
I went on piratebay, installed Miro like it says, couldn't get it to subscribe. Already got Vuze so I tried using that. It showed up in Vuze as downloading but nothing was happening. I tried 2 or 3 different torrents and it was the same so think I'm doing something wrong 
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craig_s
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i use kick ass torrents or isohunt.and utorrent as the downloader
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mwg
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Is there any way of knowing which torrents are going to be quick to download? Or do you just have to keep trying them
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craig_s
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on kickasstorrents and iso hunt its shows you the amount of seeds that have that torrent,basically the more people (seeds)that have it the quicker it will download.
[Edited on 05-06-2011 by craig_s]
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dannymccann
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And the faster the authorities will come knocking at your door when you re-upload something they are tracking 
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nick_sri
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i use utorrent and the pirate bay , mostly just check there top 100 as its got most new stuff and has loads of peers and seeds
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mwg
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I got something downloading, I just went for a SD film for now to see if it works. 700MB file size and it's been going an hour now and reckon its got another 4 hours to go 
Maybe this is my internet speed thats the problem 
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Ste
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I have always found http://torrentz.eu/search is best for finding torrents then use utorrent to d/l them. I usually max out around 3meg/sec on a single torrent, but if i have a few on the go i easily see 6.6meg/sec d/l and i seed at 800k/sec
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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A2H GO
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Registered: 14th Sep 04
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Kickasstorrents with Vuse and Peerblocker. 
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mwg
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Got The Mechanic downloaded. Took about 5 hours and it's only in SD too.
My internet has gone right down the pan recently, was at 6-7MB but now i'm struggling to get 2MB
I'm guessing from the amount of people that seem to download like this that I shouldn't be too worried about the legal side?
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AndyKent
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isohunt is good I've heard.
Your provider might be automatically restricting your bandwidth if they detect you've downloaded quite a bit. Not a biggie, but a pain.
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mwg
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It's been a bit crap before I did this TBH. I've only downloaded one film so far and that was today.
How long does it take other people to download an average size film?
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AndyKent
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Bung stuff on overnight.
I seem to remember Virgin have soft caps for volume in a short period. ie. 6gb in 4 hours is too much etc etc. Might be making that up though 
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mwg
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That's what I'm going to have to do, leave it on over night.
I'm with BT for broadband. Wonder if there is anything I can do to speed it up. Like I say it used to be 6-7MB
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A2H GO
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Normally takes me about an hour or less for a 1.3gb film. My d/l speed is about 3-4meg here.
[Edited on 05-06-2011 by A2H GO]
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Quite often you need to set up port forwarding for the torrent client on your router for it to run at maximum D/L speed.
Google 'Port Forwarding for X router for X programme' 
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mwg
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I can't even get to 100kbps download speed. Something is seriously wrong here
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noshua
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Nothing is wrong, the leech to seed ratio is probably very poor.
Public torrents annoy me.
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Brett
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A lot of ISPs either throttle torrents totally or just during peak times. I always have mine scheduled to download overnight and they're always done in the morning.
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mwg
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Will leave it on over night. The one I'm downloading now is at a mighty 20kb/s at the moment
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Ste
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Registered: 5th Mar 03
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I can do a 1 gig film in about 10 mins. That is from 3.6mb/s download. I have 50meg cable broadband with virgin.
just did a speed test now
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Ian
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That has just reminded me to do a router upgrade, doubled my speed to 9.3 mbit now 
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mwg
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That's awesome Ste!
Left it on over night and it did a 700MB film in about 4 hours and a 1.4GB film in about 5.5 hours Guess it doesn't matter so much if I'm leaving it on over night but I'd quite like to download HD films but that would take far too long at this speed.
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noshua
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Go on speedtest.net and see what speeds you're getting from a proper(ish) source.
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adiohead
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wish I could get Virgin
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