uTorrent setup help please

[VladTepes]

I've freshly installed uTorrent and its a different version to the on I had a while back.

The setup guide has a drop down list of servers - which are all in USA or Europe. It allows to select one and then click a button taht says "run tests". The result is a big red X next to the result - so it's not able to download from these servers (apparently) or at least determine the download speed.

Q: How do I get this set up properly? It obviously needs to determine, somehow, what download speed it needs to be set at ?

Make any sense ? God I hope so.

Please help.

Cheers

[abaddonxi]

Do you need to open a hole/port in your firewall/router?

[**Discovery300Tdi**]

Being a regular user of the torrent downloads sites i suggest take off Utorrent and download Vuse. Great downloader and easy to setup, it also has the download/upload tests as well but from what i know your upload speed should be at least 20-30% set from your download speed. Anyway get Vuse as i have encountered very bad experiances with Utorrent and one was my whole 80gig gone in one day!!!!! Plus Torrent dosent open alot of torrents as well.

[VladTepes]

The test says "Port s open network is properly configured"
port 63419 apparently.

[VladTepes]

Also I looked on mininova and it seems everything there costs money now !?

Is there another / better torrent finder I can use ?

[**Discovery300Tdi**]

Also I looked on mininova and it seems everything there costs money now !?

Is there another / better torrent finder I can use ?

PirateBay is a great one. torrentdownloads is another one. get vuze its a great downloader.

[VladTepes]

mininova just seems to have paid material on it, and torrent hound seems to link to external download sites that require membership.

Pirate Bay seems to require membership too.

Are there any issues with signing up to these sites?

[series3]

isohunt.com is a good one as well... I have been told to keep a wide berth of torrentz. have you run a test torrent?

It's also a good idea to throttle your upload speeds in properties somewhere, so things don't get out of control

[VladTepes]

why not use torrentz ?

ANyway it seems to be a case of following various link s/ using different sites until i find one with a few seeds.

Seems to be working OK anyway.
Cheers

[miky]

You do not have to sign up for Pirate Bay.

uTorrent is a great program much better than Vuse IMO. Vuse has blown out to a major program with lots of extras that are good for?

torrentz = ok

[Debacle]

I've used utorrent for a long time and havent had any problems with it. Usually find my torrents through Isohunt. I also use a utility called PFConfig to configure my ports and it makes a big difference.

Make sure you are using peer guardian, you don't want to get a nasty email from your isp like i did a while back which was forwarded from MGM asking that they take action against me.

[isuzutoo-eh]

I use google to find torrents :D, and an ancient prog called bitTornado for download managing.

[mowog]

A great site for TV only is.

EZTV - TV Torrents Online (http://eztv.it/)

It can be up and down a bit. But it always has the latest shows.

[loanrangie]

Also use utorrent, i dont touch the servers settings but i do reduce the upload speed. A good program to open ports correctly is called simple port forwarding, you select your router model and it sets it up and tests for you.

[Bandito]

I use uTorrent and I think it's great......

If you are after torrents......just go to google and type in whatever your after and then the word "torrent" and you should be able to find it.

For example, if you want........an AC/DC album called "Back In Black"

Type in google search:

back in black torrent

......and you will see a heap of links to torrent sites listing the album.

NOTE: When you find a torrent, you should be looking for torrents with a good amount of "seeders". Seeders are the people that have the file on their computers and are sharing it......."Leechers" are the people who are downloading the file (torrent), that's you. Once you have downloaded your file you are then a "seeder" and others are "leeching" the file off you.....until you remove it from your torrent software list.

Ports:

If you know your routers address eg: 10.1.1.1 you can access it like a web site by putting 10.1.1.1 in your browsers address bar and hitting enter. Routers have different adresses, just google your make to find out what it is.
Unless you have changed it your username and password for your router should be factory set to UN: admin and PW: admin. Find the port area of your router and set your port number to eg: 4662. Now go to the preferences in utorrent and set your port number to 4662. It does'nt matter what number you set them both to, as long as they are both the same. If you open your ports it will speed up downloading in utorrent etc

Also limit your upload rate to about 10kb/s in your utorrent preferences section or your net usage will go thru the roof. find it, it's in there.

If you have a favourite torrent site, go to that. But if you can't find the torrent you want just google it as above.

Some sites I use.

www.rarbg.com (http://www.rarbg.com)

www.kickasstorrents.com (http://www.kickasstorrents.com)

Anymore questions just ask.......cheers
Steve

PS: DOWNLOADING IS ILLEGAL!!!! I ONLY USE TORRENTS TO DOWNLOAD LEGAL NON COPYRIGHTED FILES ETC ;)