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BitTorrent Opening Speed
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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I there a way to open a bittorrent file any faster? Because one is opening right now and it says it is going to take over a hundred hours to finish opening! There has to be a faster way...
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally Posted by Flip500
I there a way to open a bittorrent file any faster? Because one is opening right now and it says it is going to take over a hundred hours to finish opening! There has to be a faster way...
1. This does not belong in "Peripherals"... moving to Applications. 
2. What are you talking about, "opening"?
Do you mean "downloading"? Because BitTorrent is the EXACT same as all the other modern peer-to-peer programs out there in that the download speed depends on WHO else is downloading the file at the same time as you. If there are 5 dial-up users on the other end of the download, then your download's going to be going at dial-up speeds (or worse).
So no, there's no "faster" way.
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thanks, what I ment the I download the really small file and then I load the real files ( or as you said "Download")
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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no idea what you are saying... need to work on that punctuation and english.
but this is how bittorrent works.
1. open up the required ports or its gonna be slow.
2. load the torrent file.
3. wait. it will start slow, but then get faster and faster.
If its still slow after 30 min to an hour check the number of seeds/peers. the peers give the data to the seeds. then seeds can share data between themselves.
if its a new torrent, and theres 1 peer and a load of seeds, then it will be really slow till a few peers get the whole file and become seeds.
Basically you have to wait a while, have the ports open, and there have to be a few seeders and peers
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Rev, that's backwards.  Seeds hold the completed file and distribute it to the peers. Peers also contribute to the stream if they have parts of the file(s) that other peers don't, but if there are many peers and few seeds then it will probably be slow, at least very slow towards the end (as less people would have the complete file).
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Yeah your right it is slowly getting faster...
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