PSA: BT people

[thistlechaser]

Hey, anyone who uses Bit Torrent to get their anime (and why wouldn't you?), you might be interested in this:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/animesuki/

When individual anime websites update with new torrents, they let animesuki know, and animesuki sends out a RSS feed. You can pick it up on LJ (just by friending it), then all the new anime BTs will show up on your own friends page! How keen is that?

And if you're using something like Kazaa, you really should think about switching over to BT. If nothing else, you're less likely to get sued and all that bad stuff. It's not that tricky to set up, if you need help just give a yell. (And for non-anime people, you can get all sorts of things with it. Movies, music, books, applications, any sorts of files.)

Comments

[ex-milkthist86.livejournal.com]

Erg. I'm still having problems with the whole BT thing. My client is stuck on 'yellow light' (I think I use the same one as you do, the Shadow experimental). I have no idea why this is, since I don't have a proxy server or a firewall. Grr. This makes for very slow downloading, so while I started a whole bunch of downloads days ago, I haven't completed anything. It's probably my fault though, don't mind my whining.

I do have a question you can maybe help me with. What happens when I shut my computer off with an unfinished download? On Kazaa it just automatically reconnects when I restart the computer, but with BT it seems I've got to go to the original website and click on the exact link again. Is that right? Also, if you're downloading a package with more than one ep, is it possible to watch them as they download, or do you have to wait until the entire thing is complete before it'll work?

Bah. Sorry to bug you with inane questions.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

My client is stuck on 'yellow light'

Are you on XP? There's an internal firewall you need to disable if you are. (Let me know if you are, I'll hunt down the instructions for doing it.) Same thing happened to me, I couldn't get over like 2-3 Kb/sec.

What happens when I shut my computer off with an unfinished download? On Kazaa it just automatically reconnects when I restart the computer, but with BT it seems I've got to go to the original website and click on the exact link again. Is that right?

Going back to the original website and starting it again from there is one way, and it was the way I was doing it until I figured a better way out. I made a new folder called Current Downloads, and after I clicked the link and started the real download going, I rightclicked on the same link, picked 'save targer as', and saved it in that Current Downloads. Then, if you disconnect or shut down, you can go to Current Downloads and doubleclick from there -- easier than going to the original site.

Also, if you're downloading a package with more than one ep, is it possible to watch them as they download, or do you have to wait until the entire thing is complete before it'll work?

I think it depends on the download, maybe? I've never tried it before it finished...

Sorry to bug you with inane questions.

They're not bad questions, no worries! They're the same things I ran into when I started.

[ex-milkthist86.livejournal.com]

I rightclicked on the same link, picked 'save targer as'

You're a genius! This is so much eaier than trying to figue out where I found some random link in the first place :D. I do have Windows XP, so instructions to get rid of the firewall would be fantasitc. If you want, you can email me and then we won't be spamming your LJ. And thanks so much, once again, because if not for you I'd probably have given up on the whole thing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'll post it here, in case someone else needs it. :) This is what was told to me, and it worked for me:

"If you have WinXP you might have to turn off the Internet Connection Firewall. Go to Control Panel > Network Connections > doubleclick your connection > Properties > click the Advanced tab > uncheck "Protect my computer and network..."

See if that does the trick!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you're welcome! :) I'm happy to be able to help out.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Since I was curious about it too, I tried playing something as it was downloading. (Well, it was downloading 18 eps, and it looked like the early ones were finished, so I tried the first one.) I got that Windows "current file is in use" error.

Oh well!