Torrent Issues

[Obii]

Lo peeps,

i seem to be having trouble with torrenting, i am being honest that i don't use torrent for music, movies or any other copyrighted material, this is the first time i've booted it up for around a year and was in fact using a well outdated utorrent client that needed updating.

last night i started to download (using the dated utorrent) the patch for latest version of the Cinematic Mod for half-life 2 (v10.94 61.9mb) plus the 8.58gb full install of the previous version (v10.90) as i haven't updated the mod since an early version 9, it's a free mod for the game HL2 which i own through Steam.

the v10.94 downloaded fine without a hitch but the full install of the previous v10.94 got to 26% and i paused it last night as i went to bed around 03:00 so all the downloading was off peak, i then resumed the download again before i went to work today but it won't actually download further then 26%. i updated the utorrent client with no success stuck at the same 26% so i deleted the data and started again but it says downloading 0.0% and has the infinity sign for the ETA. uninstalled utorrent and tried bit torrent but i have exactly the same problem the download does not seem to want to start. tried rebooting computer and router still the same.

i was wondering if it is possible that Karoo could be blocking me downloading this material? is p2p a big no no? are they allowed to block programs that are used legitimately? i'm not an expert with torrenting and just use it maybe once a year for this sort of occasion as i am a nerd gamer but i don't download games illegally, i own a shed load on my Steam account but to download a file 8 and a half gig through the other means of rapidshare in all its tiny parts will take an age and a day so torrent is the fastest solution.

if yer interested in the mod to see that it's legit material http://www.cinematicmod.com/cm_10.php but if i'm breaking forum rules with the link mods can edit and just search fakefactory cinematic mod in google.

any help appreciated

[Sean]

It's not blocked, however it has least priority - legal or not.  I find more and more legal downloads being pushed through torrents as obviously it saves their bandwidth costs, but it's not a viable option on Karoo.

[Obii]

It's not blocked, however it has least priority - legal or not.  I find more and more legal downloads being pushed through torrents as obviously it saves their bandwidth costs, but it's not a viable option on Karoo.

so they aren't preventing me from downloading it they are just making it difficult?

[bashdabish]

P2P speeds are restricted and more so during peak hours. But, it should still work for you.

[commandergc]

Seems to be downloading ok for me. is the bittorrent client able to download other torrents?

[Obii]

yeah maybe i should have added some more info  i tried again using the smaller file and no it wouldn't download despite both files having plenty of seeds etc.

i've just tried again and what do you know it's working fine now getting a better speed then i was from the others forms of download available, ETA is less then 6 hours the other dl types ranged from 9 hours to 23 hours

[David]

what speeds do you get? peak speeds and average speeds? and is encryption turned on in your bittorrent/utorrent client

[Eugene1]

I use newsgroups and at the moment it's 42K, I connect at 8meg and am on the old Max option 4 unlimited and use usenetserver.com