Does BitTorrent and BitComet work with dialup?

[peterk312]

I am new to the whole torrent scene but have wanted very much to get into it. I have downloaded both the BitTorrent and the BitComet client, and they both installed fine. I can get .torrent files and open them with either application. Only problem is they sit. They do NOTHING. I get no file to start downloading. When I disable my Norton firewall I still get nothing. I have no other firewall. Is it a bandwidth issue?--that is, if you have dialup it's going to take longer to download because of how the torrent system works?

Anybody out there using BitTorrent or BitComet with a dialup connection ???

[Lite]

It could take a few minutes for a torrent to "kick-in", but Bittorrent does work with dial up! Try to find a torrent with lots of seeds and few leechers.

For example try the torrent on the nero homepage: http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/nero7-demo.php this has lots of seeds, try if it works. If not we can try other things. You don't need to download all of it... just a part.

[peterk312]

Lite: Thanks for a quick reply.

Okay, the link you provided was for a regular Nero download page, so I'm not sure what you're asking me to try to do. There's no .torrent files on the page so I don't see how this is related to not being able to get a file from the BitTorrent system.

[peterk312]

Hey! I just got 2.5% of a file that I opened with BitComet using a .torrent file, so now I see that it DOES work with dialup. But I have to admit, this is very slow. I had to wait over an hour just to get this much. I'm not sure yet what a "peer," a "seed," a "leecher," or a "tracker" is, but I can DEFINATELY see the BitTorrent system is nothing like Kazaa, is it?

[Lite]

Your download speed is directly proportional to your upload, the faster you upload, the faster you download.

Kazaa and Bittorrent work differently, that is correct. A "tracker" is central is all of Bittorrent's workings, where as Kazaa is "de-centralised". In kazaa uploads and downloads are seperate things, in Bittorrent you share as you upload.

You might like to try Ares, its much more similar to Kazaa than bittorrent, and works on the same principle.

[gloryforixseal]

Do you mean a torrent that was partially downloaded by another BitTorrent client?

The other client should be putting the files into a folder something like "DownloadsXYZ...". To resume something like that, save the .torrent file to Downloads and name it XYZ.torrent in the Save As window. That should do it.