We suspect our ISP is shutting down our internet connection when we use a BitTorrent client and/or throttling bandwidth. Is there any way to detect this? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - 14 answers

Whenever I run Transmission on OSX, my Firefox browsing slows to a trickle, or simply stops altogether. [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - 11 answers

Torrented files can't be read by a remote machine until they are cut/pasted. Why, and how to fix it? [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2008 - 2 answers

Just got Verizon FIOS and the wifi access point sucks. So I disabled the wireless portion on the fios router and plugged in a linksys wifi router. Wireless is now kick a** but my bittorrent is slow. I need help with port forwarding. [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 6 answers

I live in a house with 6 other internet hungry people. Help me cater for our needs! [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2008 - 11 answers

Can someone explain to me the magic of bittorrents? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2008 - 14 answers

What's the best way of distributing a DVD over the Internet? I'm thinking probably bittorrent for transmission, but what format? ISO? A set of VOBs, etc.? [more inside]
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 20 answers

Can anyone recommend software to syncronise files between multiple servers ? [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2008 - 14 answers

I wanna download TV to watch on my TV; where do I learn... [more inside]
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - 16 answers

How would I go about finding torrents or downloads of popular TV shows dubbed in Japanese? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 2 answers

I'm looking for tips, tricks, hacks, scripts, and ideas for managing torrents using Linux. [more inside]
posted on Jan 26, 2008 - 8 answers

My ISP (Pipex) seems to cripple torrents. When I use Hotspot Shield it seems to get around whatever they are doing and gives me reasonably consistently speedier downloads. But Hotspot Shield has a monthly usage allowance. Are there any alternatives?
posted on Jan 22, 2008 - 5 answers

How do torrents work? [more inside]
posted on Jan 12, 2008 - 6 answers

I will soon be distributing a bunch of large scientific and research datasets, all entirely legal for redistribution, many as large as a few gigabytes. Bittorrent is the best solution for this. Many respectable webhosting sites don't allow Bittorrent trackers; too many of those that do seem fly-by-night. I have a budget for this and want something respectable and reliable. Recommendations? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - 20 answers

I've seen this and this,and this. When I'm running Transmission (I used to use Azareus, with the same problems, but I switched because a lot of the trackers I used banned it. I will switch if anyone can suggest a better client) on OSX it kills all of my web browsing. Even when I turn on Speed Limiter there is no web browsing. I'm only downloading one file, with one peer at the moment, for what that's worth. But when I cap upload at 5k, web browsing works again (by the way, I browse with Firefox). That doesn't seem right to me. I have Time Warner Road Runner cable internet and a Netgear WGR614v7 - 54 Mbps Wireless Router. Is there anything I'm overlooking to be able to browse the web while downloading torrents?
posted on Oct 9, 2007 - 14 answers

Now that Demonoid is dead, is there another great invite-only torrent site?
posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 16 answers

Here is my dilemma. Last week I received a DMCA takedown notice from my ISP regarding a TV show that I torrented (is that a word yet?). Do I ignore the message, or give them the information? I know this was wrong, but my thinking was that this was a TV show, and not music, HBO, movies, etc. I guess I was seriously wrong. I deleted the file and uninstalled uTorrent. [more inside]
posted on Sep 5, 2007 - 18 answers

Niche bit torrent sites. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 17 answers

Help me find an affordable NAS that is between 500g-1TB, does Wifi, has iTunes Library support, BitTorrent, and FTP support please.
posted on Aug 28, 2007 - 9 answers

Looking for advice on how to score invites to private BitTorrent sites- specificially Oink.cd. [more inside]
posted on Aug 14, 2007 - 19 answers

Is there a simple, themed content management platform with an intergrated BitTorrent tracker module? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2007 - 3 answers

Big dumb stupid newbie Bittorrent question. [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2007 - 20 answers

My bittorrent client hogs all my bandwidth . I know that I can pause or cap my bit torrent traffic but i would like my computer to assign internet requests from my browser a higher priority. is there any way to do this ?
posted on Jun 9, 2007 - 15 answers

How do I make Airport Extreme play nicely with Azureus? [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2007 - 4 answers

I need some help creating a bit torrent and then sharing it with a limited number of people [more inside]
posted on Dec 6, 2006 - 10 answers

How does one use bittorrent anonymously? [more inside]
posted on Nov 13, 2006 - 9 answers

Okay, so I'm now at Uni and I have the internet in my room: However, I'd forgotten that they have a very stringent access policy: now mefites, can you help me set up Bittorent using SSH tunnels or equivalent? [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2006 - 11 answers

Bittorrent worked fine till I got VoIP (Vonage). Now, no worky. Can anyone help? I'm on OSX. [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2006 - 18 answers

Linksys NSLU2 or ASUS WL-500G? I am looking for a wireless, cheap (around $100), Unix-based NAS solution that will let me plug in a couple of USB or SATA drives and do things like serve SSH and run BitTorrent. [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2006 - 8 answers

How can I build a machine (PVR?) that downloads torrents automatically via RSS and allows me to access them in a Tivo/DVR/PVR like interface on my television? [more inside]
posted on Aug 17, 2006 - 10 answers

Some of my bittorrents are stuck at 99.X% [more inside]
posted on May 26, 2006 - 12 answers

My ISP doesn't like "unrestricted" peer-to-peer, so shouldn't "restricted" peer-to-peer (namely BitTorrent) be ok? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2006 - 19 answers

Skirting the legal ramifications here, but any suggestions for sites where I can get quality foreign (specially french) films with english subtitles via bittorrent. [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2006 - 2 answers

How can I use bittorrent clients without bringing my home network to a crawl? [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2006 - 19 answers

Having probs downloading torrents. I'm on OS X. Can anyone help me or walk me thru how to make it work consistently? [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2006 - 15 answers

What are the chances of actually getting caught using a P2P file sharing program such as BitTorrent to download pirated stuff? Is there more likelihood of getting into hot water depending on what you are downloading (i.e. movies,TV shows, music..)? Can anyone suggest a method of using BitTorrent that will avoid these problems?
posted on Apr 4, 2006 - 21 answers

What is the point of invite-only music bittorrent sites? And how does one go about getting invites? [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2006 - 25 answers

Is it legal to download episodes of broadcast tv? [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2006 - 37 answers

A Torrent Question: Why, when downloading (anything) using bitcomet can i only connect to peers who are also using the bitcomet client? When i use uTorrent i can connect to many more peers who are using all sorts of clients. I'm obviously going to switch apps, but would love to know the reason for this behaviour. Thanks.
posted on Jan 15, 2006 - 6 answers

BitTorrent filter: what do all the letters mean? [more inside]
posted on Dec 15, 2005 - 10 answers

I live in a house with 7 or 8 other people and we share a wireless hub. I download a lot with bittorrent which was working out just fine until about 2 days ago when it suddenly stopped connecting at all. Am I being paranoid or could someone in my house be blocking off BT? Any other ideas?
posted on Nov 30, 2005 - 8 answers

How can I detect if my ISP is using traffic-shaping software to throttle my P2P connections? [more inside]
posted on Nov 13, 2005 - 21 answers

Does a 3rd party plugin exist that will allow me to download bittorrents of podcasts using iTunes 6? [more inside]
posted on Nov 5, 2005 - 5 answers

bittorrent filter: where are the best bittorrent sites? [more inside]
posted on Nov 1, 2005 - 33 answers

Are there any good replacements for Torrent Typhoon? [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2005 - 11 answers

I missed my favorite TV show and really want to see it. Is Bittorrent a good option? Are there other options? [more inside]
posted on Oct 7, 2005 - 16 answers

I have a hard drive full of video and no DVD burner. How do I put the video onto CD? These are in bin/cue and avi format and hover around the magic 700MB mark (some a little higher some a little lower). [more inside]
posted on Sep 17, 2005 - 15 answers

When I use BitTorrent on XP SP2, Windows "limits the number of concurrent, incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts" and (I think) slows me down, because they might be coming from a "malicious program". How can I stop it doing that and make it treat me like a grown-up? Is it in the registry somewhere?
posted on Aug 23, 2005 - 9 answers

How can I use Azureus to download just one file out of a big torrent that includes many files? [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2005 - 4 answers

Does anyone have good rules of thumb for the resources required to run a bittorrent tracker? [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2005 - 5 answers