Thread: Top Gear Is Back On.

DANG! i missed it.
on a good note though, south park is back. unfortunately it's a repeat

Originally Posted by Reads90

Oh and it was a good one. They went cavaning

Quiet you, i'm still downloading it

Great show the Toyota's playing soccer was interesting.
Land Rover against tank was priceless.

How funny was it the other night when they tested the Supercharged V8 Range Rover Sport?

I thought the show and the R/R sport were fabulous.

Originally Posted by Reads90

Oh and it was a good one. They went cavaning

Watched it last night - I think I hurt myself I laughed so hard.

Originally Posted by White 110

I drive a '96 Defender so in simple words what is a "BitTorrent client" that I appear to need before I can download Topgear?!?!?!

OK - here is some info for people wanting to download Top Gear -

The fastest way to download extremely large files (such as movies & TV shows) is by using a BitTorrent client. Using torrent files you are actually downloading files from anyone else who has the same file and is running another BitTorrent client. In addition, once you start downloading a file, your BitTorrent client makes it available for others to download off you. Consequently your download takes a piece of the file from here and a piece of the file from there until it is complete.

Firstly you need to download a BitTorrent client - I use uTorrent (www.utorrent.com). Most info and instructions are on the uTorrent website.

Next you need to open a port on your computer to allow uTorrent to shovel information through. Selected programs open selected ports on your computer (eg. Internet Explorer, FTP etc). Again, information on how to do this is on the uTorrent website (accessible using the help menu in uTorrent).

Next - if you are running a firewall (Windows XP has one built-in) you need to make an exception so it doesn't try to block access by uTorrent. You should just get a prompt the first time it is run and select "permit always" or something like that.

I am not an expert by any means, I set mine up just using the info supplied in the program.

Finally you need to download the "torrent" files for whatever shows you wish to download. Top Gear torrents can all be accessed through www.finalgear.com. Just drop the torrent file into the main uTorrent client window and away she goes. Speeds will vary depending on the number of people suppying the file (seeds) and number of people downloading the file (peers) as well as your physical connection. An average speed on ADSL is 20-30kB/s but I have been able to achieve 300kB/s on cable.

Good luck.

another vote for utorrent here.

"at least you don't have to apologise to the owners of the other caravan for ruining their awning"

I use http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ very good program, can customize it alot and add rss news feeds from mininova and the like, so I have mine setup to automatically download the new episodes when they are released but I'm pretty sure utorrent can do this as well, think there's more plugin's though for azureus.

If anyone is interested in automatically downloading Top Gear/Fifth Gear (u have to leave the client open though) goto here for instructions :

(also more infor here : http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php't=8672)
If you use uTorrent, check out this tutorial: http://www.utorrent.com/rsstutorial.php

If you use Azureus, here is a step by step guide: http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php't=11599

Matt.