Available Torrents

ETree has a nice little search function which makes it a little easier to see what's out there: http://bt.etree.org/?search=moxy&cat=0

Are we adopting etree as the primary�tracker for Fruvous shows then?� If that's the case,� Josh sould probably put that in his torrent info notice that's currently on the front page.�

Maybe we also need to put links to a torrent faq.� It seemed in the poll that a lot of people were unfamiliar with torrents, shns, and flacs.��

I dunno... personally I would say we should either use ETree or establish our own.� I have a php/mysql based tracker running at acousticville.org that we could use or install elsewhere.� Part of why I liked using ETree is that they get a lot of random music fan traffic, so the shows may get some attention from people who would never find them otherwise... which is the same reason I post the info on SharingTheGroove as well.

What do you (all) think?� I'm happy to install the tracker somewhere else under another domain, or pass it along to Josh.� It's basically the same as ETree's tracker.

- Jason

Well, from now on, I'm posting all my new shows I rip at Folktorrent.org.

Main reasons:

A) it won't hog forum space and anger people who aren't interested in hearing fruvous shows.

B) I don't have to convert the text file to html before posting it. hehe.

But, I will just post a link to them here.... unless people don't want me to.

Of course, acousticville.org seems to be private, unless I'm missing something. :)

So having downloaded 11-27-99 I've left the window open and am seeding it. According to the etree search thingie there are a couple of people downloading it, but my upload rate is 0. Why am I not serving anything? In this case I guess it could be because there are a total of 15 seeds for 2 leeches. But in the previous instance I was one of only 3 seeds for 3 leeches and I STILL had a U/L rate of 0. What is the deal with that?

all my other transfers were great.

since yesterday, it's been really slow. :(

One seems to be moving with 4 peers and 2 seeds but the other one that is slow is 2 peers and 4 seeds (6-5-98) I'm not sure why that one is being a problem. :\

Sounds like you're firewalled.� Your IP is showing on the tracker as something with the port number in parentheses, right?� In most cases, you can't seed (reliably) without opening the appropriate ports on your firewall.� This should also speed your future downloads as the tracker won't allocate your as much download bandwidth if you're not uploading.� That's the theory anyway...

At least at first glance, 6/5/98 doesn't look like that bad... but�with 85% of 14 peers (leechers) firewalled and the 5 seeds only uploading at about 100k/s, it could be kinda slow going.� There are only two peers that look to be having real performance problems... maybe you've got several torrents open and you're uploading a lot which will slow down the overall performance of your broadband line, particularly cable and ADSL?� Love for people to keep several torrents open, but unless you can tune the bandwidth of them each with either ABC or TorrentStorm, they can get a little out of hand.�

My light on it is also yellow right now.

I'm also on DSL (verizon) which could be a problem now too.

I thought I opened the ports that Nate mentioned, but I'm not sure. I'll look again. I'm using Zone Alarm Pro which is a bit cryptic in that department. It has a thing to allow TCP ports and another thing to allow UDP ports. I'm assuming I want TCP. Is that right?

Replying to myself, ok I fixed it. I had not opened the ports for upload, only download, but that may not have even been the issue. They may have been open anyway, as bittorrent was authorized to be a server. The big problem, was that I was also running the WinXP firewall, and didn't know it. Anyway, I fixed all that stuff and rebooted and now I no longer show up behind a firewall, and I'm getting over 100 KB per sec now! Wohoo

Yes, you want to open ports for TCP.

I just tried to do my first d/l via bargainville.org, but during the initial file creation process I'm getting error messages that I can't fully read, to the gist of "Error 2,�No such file or directory, C:/documents and settings ... "

(when I try to read the rest of the error message by widening the popup screen, the error message text disappears.)�

This happens with both the 8/10/99 show and the 2/19/00 show.

I�looked over�the FAQ and relevant threads here (fhdc), but I haven't found out what's wrong.� It would seem�something is missing or unavailable on my hard drive.� �I did�open the relevant ports to get around firewalls.� Do I have to d/l a separate BitTorrent program from the one I'm using on etree.com to get at the bargainville.org shows?� And/or might the problem be that�I still have some windows open on etree?� I'm finishing up 2 downloads on etree, and I'd like to leave some seeding windows open for a couple of days.�

Lori I'm getting the same error message.

You mean the .torrent file itself doesn't download properly?� What browser are you using?� I have an idea what might be wrong (on my end)...

Think I fixed it... there was a problem in download.php that may cause some browsers to choke on the download attempt.� I could only duplicate the issue if I pasted the .torrent URL in the browser, but it was certainly a bug on the server side.

Yell if that doesn't do the trick...

Right, the .torrent file WAS failing after it opened a few kb (a range of @8 to 16, on various attempts) and I got the error message. I'm using IE 6.0.2800.

But it JUST connected on my last try seconds ago, as I was trying to write this ms. -- so it looks like you just fixed it. Thanks! :)

'k, Jason, sorry to keep bugging you about this but there's a question about the firewalls that came up on the Torrents; help please! forum.�� (See "Weird" thread.)

I've had no problem downloading from bargainville.org since you tweaked it last night.� I completed both Fruvous sets this morning.� But I'm always listed as firewalled, with virtually no uploading.� So my share rate stinks.� I have�ports 6880-6999 forwarded on Linksys, with TCP checked.� I have rebooted and retried seeding.� I'm still firewalled.� At this point I've shut down those�2 seeding attempts,�because all they're doing is slowing down my other d/l's and uploads.�

I want to grab the Pete and Arlo show, but I'd like to get unfirewalled first so I can share as well as take.�