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How do you do a manual hash check anyways? I don't see an option anywhere to do it.

I checked the site and it looks as if the site listed in the tracker does not exist. I finished the torrent so it doesn't really matter now, but I wanted to know for future reference.

I never even touched that part of my router admin program. I know I can't set that IP address as static since it is the ISP that assigns it. The one I setup was the one that the router assigns my computer on the network. Besides, if I did screw that up, none of the computers should be able to get on the net at all and all of them can. I'm on one of them right now. The only thing I did to the router admin program was to add the port for port forwarding to the "routing" tab. I couldn't figure out how to assign a static IP to this computer, so I never touched any of the other settings.

When downloading, I get an error from the tracker at www.purpleyoda.com saying: "Error: Tracker Response Error: Torrent is not authorized for use on this tracker. in tracker http://www.purpleyoda.com/tracker/announce.php" I didn't change anything and I could have sworn that this was working fine before. Also, DHT is returning peers that are downloading fine. Is there a way to change a tracker so that I can download from the other peers? What are trackers anyways?

I set up port forwarding a few days ago. Tonight, after BitComet was downloading for a while, I could not connect to most sites on the internet. Then I could not connect to anything, but BitComet was still downloading. Once I shutdown BitComet, my internet browsing would return most of the way and once I rebooted, it would come back completely. Then I went in my router admin program to see if there were any problems and it lists my DHCP lease for this computer as expired. What is causing all this and why is it happening now? It's worked perfectly up until now. It's not that BitComet is using ALL the bandwidth because I have bandwidth caps activated in BitComet. I haven't changed anything on my computer between then and now. Here are the specs: Windows XP SP2 Home Edition BitComet 0.70 Router: Motorola WR850G Wireless Connection to router via a Motorola WU830G Wireless USB Adapter

I download a lot of seasons of anime. But I usually want to watch the first episode first, and so on. So what I do is set the priority of say, the first 2 episodes at "Very High" and the next two at "High" and the rest at "Normal". The torrent seems to download in the same amount of time, but I get the episodes I want first.

And I am just saying that wouldn't it be a simple fix to remove the ul/dl ration cap when someone is seeding is in order. Why should someone be punished for doing what you ask of them?

And not everyone can leave their computer on for days at a time. I am temporarily living in my parents house. She won't let me leave my computer on overnight because it wastes electriciity. Really I don't blame her. It's like BitTorrent/BitComet was designed solely for those people who live in dorms and have unlimited access to electricity and a mega-fast school network. Then to h*** with everyone else's situation.

But you are completely missing the point. I have no problem turning on a seed and letting people download from it. But when I do that, it takes away bandwidth from my downloads that are active, and in turn, I am punished because it lowers my download speed because my upload speed isn't as high as it could be. I'm glad you have so much bandwidth that you can afford to just turn on a seed and have it not affect your other downloads. For me, doing that kills my download speed by at least 25%. If I could do what you suggest, I would in a heartbeat because I like giving back when I can. But I don't like being punished for doing so. There should be some kind of algorithim in BitTorrent/BitComet that can detect when you are seeding and removes the DL/UL ratio cap. And by definition, I am not a leech. A leech takes something without giving anything at all in return. I give what I can. Just because I don't have a crapload of bandwidth like you do doesn't make me a leech.

The way BitComet/BitTorrent is designed has an inherent flaw that probably wasn't intentional, but it's the reason why I don't let an upload continue once I finish downloading. I have a finite amount of upload bandwidth. I usually have to cap my UL between 25 and 40 KB/s because if I do not, it will shut down internet browsing on my entire home network. And since my download speed is tied to my upload speed cap, I am actually punished by letting an upload continue when there is no download. It takes upload bandwidth away from the downloads that are in progress and lowers my download speed. So why should I continue to let myself be punished in download speed when I can stop an upload I'm not getting anything else for and allocate that bandwidth to the downloads that are active? Stop tying download speed to upload speed. In trying to stop leechers, you are punishing the people who want to share but can't due to download caps. There has to be another way to discourage leechers.

Ok, but for those of us who aren't members, we can't even join.

I have downloaded it, but I don't want my speed lowered anymore than it already is. I have a Motorola WR850G router and Windows Firewall.

But wouldn't it be much faster to just select the particular file in a torrent you want? I do it to make sure an anime torrent has english audio before download the entire 5GB season. Maybe I didn't explain my question in the proper terms. I meant to ask how does the priority setting work in relation to allocation bandwidth. Does it override the bandwidth caps? It seemed when I did it last night that all the computers in the house slowed to a crawl.

I'm still getting the Event 4226 error after upgrading to SP2. Anyone know why this could be?

When you right click on a file in a torrent, what does the "Priority" section specifically do and how does it do it?