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Dirty word: Bit Torrent

cantthinkofone

cantthinkofone

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Jul 25, 2004
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Missouri, USA
First off i'm not trying to download anything illegal, or share anything illegal.

I want to send a video i made of a local cross country race with the people who raced it. I tried uploading it to youtube, but it's 19 minutes long. Rapidshare says it's too big.

So i thought why not bit torrent.

But i can't get it to seed. I have it uploaded on mininova.org, and my client says it's super seeding. But nobody can download it.

Any advice would be helpful. I've never used bit torrent before.
 
For BitTorrent to work properly you have to forward a port. You can do this by accessing your router through your browser. This should help solve a lot of problems.
 
I'm using Vuze. I'm not sure i like it so much tho. Lots of extras and really slows down my powermac.

I've downloaded one other torrent, and once it was done downloading i was seeding it. I turned on port 1330 on my router and told it to send it to the computer i wanted.
 
Ok i'll try those when i get home. Vuze said to use 1330 so i used that. But i didn't really understand what it was saying.

I've used transmission before, but didn't think it could make and seed torrents so thats why i switched.
 
cantthinkofone said:
Ok i'll try those when i get home. Vuze said to use 1330 so i used that. But i didn't really understand what it was saying.

I've used transmission before, but didn't think it could make and seed torrents so thats why i switched.
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You usually want to use a port higher than 50000, so you don't interfere with other applications.

And if you want to create a torrent file in Transmission, just drag and drop the file you want to add.
 
ok i think i got it. i used transmission, and uploaded the tracker to mininova.

it says there is one seed.

Question tho...When i go to preferences-->network, it says the port is closed. Will this affect me seeding to people? I've tried a few others but it keeps saying closed.

*EDIT*

I put port 50001 down in transmission. and it still says it's closed. Ideas?
 

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OK. I've forwarded every port from 6881-6999. And it still says it's closed. I've tried on my Powermac thats running Tiger server, and my MB thats running leopard. Both say the port is closed. I've tried inputing different ports in trans but still nothing.

I have DSL thru embarq and i've looked at the modem settings. I enabled UPnP, turned off the firewall. And even made a rule on the firewall that ports 6881-6999 are to be opened. Still nothing.
 

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Sounds like your video is raw if its too big. You might like to re-encode it, you can use iMovie and Handbrake and stuff like that real simple. A nineteen minute movie should weigh in pretty light.
 
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