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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Okami One And Only on April 15, 2005, 09:58:07 pm

Title: Bitorrent Behaving Badly
Post by: Okami One And Only on April 15, 2005, 09:58:07 pm

When I try to download, it sits there telling me it\'s downloading it, but it\'s not. It\'s zero percent completed at a zero kb a second of an unknown size of download.

It\'s mocking me...

Why is this?

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Post by: XanWing on April 15, 2005, 09:59:32 pm

bitorrent is so slow. Start it up before u go to sleep and prey that its finished by the morning.

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Post by: Okami One And Only on April 15, 2005, 10:01:00 pm

Hm. And then it takes off for a minute like a horse at a starting gate, then slows to a bitter little crawl...

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Post by: XanWing on April 15, 2005, 10:16:19 pm

yep you got the idea.

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Post by: Externals on April 15, 2005, 10:52:29 pm

Eww.. never liked bittorent but it is said to work nicely for other people. In my opinion, dont waist your time dling that all night. Get a download accelerator like (DAP).. (http://www.speedbit.com) or Getright or something and dl it..
Im on a DSL connection, got it to finish in 1hr and 30mins.

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Post by: MaidenIndigo on April 18, 2005, 05:52:54 pm

Make sure that if you are behind a router or firewall you forward ports 6881-6889 or else you won\'t connect to seeders properly.

I used Azureus (a Java-based BT client) and it took me about an hour and some change to download all of CB 3.009 behind a Netgear 802.11b router.  I have a cable Internet connection with two other users on my network.