On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
wrote:
>
> I have no real help to your specific problem, but you need to provide
> some solid useful data so others can debug the problem. Based on stuff
> in the other thread about what versions work and don't work, and the
> above, I recomme
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
wrote:
> I have no real help to your specific problem, but you need to provide
> some solid useful data so others can debug the problem. Based on stuff
> in the other thread about what versions work and don't work, and the
> above, I recommend
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading
> the torrent he supplied. Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem.
>
> However, two other torrents I've downloaded (both "legally" on torrent)
> downloaded just fine.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> It sounds like the most effective thing you could do would be to pick up
>> a comprehensive Linux book and spend some quality time with it.
I do have a book. It is quite handy & I do read it often. The CLI
stuff... I'd have to take a really
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao wrote:
> so the torrents render you wireless disconnected.
>
> if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything
> should be solved. but i have no idea on how to get there.
>
> correct me if i get it wrong.
My visual indicator somethi
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Huang, Tao wrote:
> "When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon
> copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be
> copied."
That's what I thought... well we're all going to have to live with a
mistake every now & ag
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over the
> wireless connection works fine with XP and with UNR. It's just some form of
> straight Debian where torrent downloads fail.
XP & UNR 9.10 work, Debian & UNE 10.04
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote:
> Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would
> point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means the problemo
> is with the torrent software.
Iceweasel, jigdo both worked. Also I've tried I think 5 differen
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote:
>
> He-he! Contrary.
> I assume poster tries to solve the problem himself first.
> Aside of being polite, it is a fun to learn new things.
> Some lists, like openbsd ones, ask you to do various steps
> toward answer to the question. Describing th
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote:
> What do you have to do to get the connection back? Restart
> networking on the torrent client computer, or, restart the
> modem/router, or perhaps you have a separate firewall that requires
> a (networking) restart. The answer to this question
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Huang, Tao wrote:
>
> you have no control at all on how the wifi hotspots were configured,
> which is also the case of ABS Doug.
> port-forwarding (or upnp) is needed for good torrents performance.
> if the number of connections is not limi
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mark wrote:
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> Ubuntu download might be too small to test, that's why I suggested a dvd
> download. The logic is, if you can download large files on the same OS but
> from a different software platform like jigdo or Iceweasel, you've isolated
> the problem to be
Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO
fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test.
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote:
>If you want to provide more
> info re: jiado & DL through Iceweasel, I'll try it!
Sorry, I got what you mean DL through Iceweasel... doing it now,
downloading Ubuntu.
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Mark wrote:
> My previous reply:
>
> Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible the drivers are
> different in the Ubuntu/XP/Debian platforms that's causing the dropout. Is
> it only with torrents, or is it all downloads? What if you download a d
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, H.S. wrote:
> If torrents were acting all weird in my case, I would do the following,
> in the given order.
>
> 1. Try a "safe" torrent, e.g. of a Linux distribution (Ubuntu is a good
> example). The idea is to exclude the possibility of using bad or
> intentiona
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> pan2, unrar and par2 got me over my distrust of multi-part downloads.
Yep. Funny thing too, these days I almost *NEVER* find anything
incomplete or corrupted. I only download par2 files & run the check...
can't remember the last time I need t
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> When someone sends you a direct email, the expectation is that you will
>> send a direct reply.
No problem. From now on, I'm hitting reply to all.
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Klistvud wrote:
> Call me paranoid (many people do), but I have a strong hunch that, in order
> to subvert the bittorrent protocol and eventually dismantle its user base,
> the media majors are flooding the Internet with intentionally malformed
> torrents/trackers
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Mihira Fernando
wrote:
> Do they throttle torrents when protocol encryption is enabled as well ? My
> isp here does the same thing with unencrypted torrents but no issues at all
> when protocol encryption is turned on.
Thing is, if I'm getting throttled, how com
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Andrew Reid wrote:
> Is this only true of torrents, or is it also true of large
> downloads? What happens if you try to pull a few megs of
> something?
Usenet seems to work fine. But there I'm downloading in pieces of
course. Is the anything else I can put throu
> My conclusion would be: some time has to
> be spent to learn ins and outs of debian first. Next, to learn
> how torrent works, including reading rfc or whatever similar.
> Last, choose the application people use and help on forums or
> irc channel.
Or just used Windows. I mean it works & it woul
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Send me the torrent and I'll try it out.
I've tried over 20 torrents, they all do the same thing. Thank for
thinking of that though.
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I can't believe I'm still totally unable to figure out what is going
on here. Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 was unable to handle downloading
torrents. The connection would drop. I tried every torrent client. I
tried lowering the connections. Nothing I tried worked. I ended up
downgrading to Ubuntu 9
> On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
>> built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
>> display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It
>> took hours to
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