CTorrent

[wurzel]

Hi guys,

Can anyone help me to use CTorrent?

I've downloaded it & set it up, but I haven't a clue how to use it. By that, I mean how to find flies to download, then the options to put in the command line.

I've tried to read the docs, but it's complete gobbledygook to me.

I've tried to use CTorrentUI, but when I run it, it just asks for the file to download, which is where I have the problem.

I've seen a friend's PC with a BitTorrent program, it's as simple as Aminet! I thought the miggy was supposed to be easier

[zyphoid]

I too had questions about getting it to work. must be a secret cause i didn't get much help last time. Once you find a torrent through any browser it "supposed to be able to read the address and begin downloading, but I have yet to get that far.  maybe i'll mess with it in abit.

[zyphoid]

Has anyone had success?  what shell commands were used and how. The GUI doesn't work!

[pVC]

You have to get .torrent file from somewhere for each thing you'd like to download. There are several web pages offering .torrent files etc.

Then just type in shell "ctorrent thefileyouhavegot.torrent" and it starts downloading the actual content.

Some torrent clients may have search function, but it actually searches from different web pages, which you can access directly too. So it's up to client what pages have been defined into it. Torrents are bit messy.. there isn't single repository like with Aminet which you referred. They are here and there and you have to find correct place to find files you like

And remember, you share everything you download at the same time. Unless you have disabled it or your torrent port isn't open to internet..  but then you might get pretty slow download speeds.

[Piru]

Wikipedia: BitTorrent

[zyphoid]

thanks! will try again later.  Does it matter which browser you use to save the file. I used ibrowse and save to ram.  the file appeared as a txt. file which could be opened by notpad or something. What if i used the downloaded the .torrent from a laptop and transferred it to the amiga, how does it deal with long file names?

[pVC]

It doesn't matter which browser you use. IBrowse works just fine. Transferring is fine. Filename length depends of the filesystem used. Standard FFS has max name length around 30 chars, but you can always rename the .torrent file.

[zyphoid]

@PVC cool

[lurkist]

Hi,

Just began playing with this and I've reached maybe another step along.

So I've got my .torrent file, I've pointed CTorrent at it, it has confirmed the contents and has put some kind of "virtual" files in the dir I chose.  So far so good.

Now it says it is downloading the files, only there is NO hard disk activity.  Surely there should be some?  I'm not waiting hours for it to do it's thing only to find it hasn't done it's thing!  Where is the data going?  Not into those "virtual" files, that's sure.

Also, it says it's uploading as well.  What exactly?  What data of mine is some bloke getting?


Cheers.

[Piru]

Just read the wiki page about BitTorrent?

[skurk]

So I've got my .torrent file, I've pointed CTorrent at it, it has confirmed the contents and has put some kind of "virtual" files in the dir I chose.  So far so good.

That's right.  The first thing it does is allocating the required disk space.  The file names and sizes are correct, but the content is just zero.  It hasn't downloaded anything yet.

Now it says it is downloading the files, only there is NO hard disk activity.  Surely there should be some?  I'm not waiting hours for it to do it's thing only to find it hasn't done it's thing!  Where is the data going?  Not into those "virtual" files, that's sure.

It depends on how many sharing the file you're attempting to download.  If there are none, then - naturally - there will be no disk activity.  I've had certain torrents working for weeks until finishing, while others like *ahem* the latest episode of a popular TV show with a plane crash on an island and some hot chick called Kate, can be downloaded in less than an hour.

Also, it says it's uploading as well.  What exactly?  What data of mine is some bloke getting?

If it's uploading, it's almost certainly downloading something.  The thing about torrents is, as Piru tries to explain, that you're downloading from a lot of people, and you're sharing what you've downloaded with the others.

Leave it on for a couple of hours (or overnight) and you'll see some progress.  Or, just for testing, try another torrent that's certainly popular (like that TV show I mentioned)

[zyphoid]

Hey Lurkist, I too have been fiddling with it!  The first time I dropped it into my c drawer, and tried downloading an mp3.  It did the same thing you described, then it completed it into ram.  I realized I needed to get it out of c immediately.  I dropped it into another directory in a drive then proceeded to download a file in excess of 90megs.  It placed drawer into the same directory as ctorrent, but no drive activity, meanwhile, my ram starts to get lower!  needless to say i think i'm goind to get that file assuming if it is placing it  in ram again.  I'm using it now, so its hard to tell, I only have 30,000,000 memory and it is showing 21,000,000, but no files appear in ram. :-?

[zyphoid]

BTW... Just how do you end ctorrent?? :-?

[zyphoid]

OK! how do you get ctorrent to not write to ram: And I'm not reading bittorrent. I know how to use torrents...just not on my amiga. I'm down to 11,000,000 mem,and nothing being written to my drive!

[lurkist]

Just noticed that the default cache size for ctorrent is 16MB.  Normally that would make sense and persuade me that everything is in fact working well, but if you (Zyphoid) have reached 19MB of stuff into RAM and still no HD activity, it's back to the drawing board.