Comments on: BitTorrent Jargon

By: helmutg

helmutg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:19:39 +0000

Drive an iMac G5 since I crashed my Windows laptop in 2005 and experience much less .com anxiety & stress. However – I’ve d/ld a few movies from Limewire but get no sound on some – can someone tell me why/how . . .

By: Suisam

Suisam — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:18:17 +0000

Yeah awesome thanks…. came across a nuked torrent the other night. Danke! :D

By: Chelsie

Chelsie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:40:23 +0000

Awesome. Thanks heaps.

By: BT.DNA

BT.DNA — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:30:26 +0000

always keep in mind some ppl just get ther download then shutdown there app in reallity u should continue all progress plus it helps others get info u just recieved and so on where all sharing right
always refresh tracker reset the bans asswell

By: BT.DNA

BT.DNA — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:27:10 +0000

i update my trackers every 6 hours on schedule

By: BT.DNA

BT.DNA — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:26:07 +0000

yes you can add new trackers if you find the right ones but your better to just update the tracker and it finds new one for you it worked for me

By: BT.DNA

BT.DNA — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:28 +0000

so are u saying that peers are bassically a backup for trackers yea/no

By: Tashfeen

Tashfeen — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:10:59 +0000

hi..Can we add a new tracker with the presence of old tracker to a torrent file? So that we can get the more number of peers in order to download our file.plz Answer my question….thanx..
Tashfeen.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:46:35 +0000

Also, I keep seeing blogs and tech sites going on about how much faster torrent downloading is compared with, say traditional P2P or a website’s own server. I’ve found it to be the other way around. I can download massive files much faster from P2P (or could before it all turned to garbage files) and sites like archive.org. And judging from comment #33 here I’m not the only one who’s noticed this.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:43:43 +0000

So what, exactly, is the difference between a leecher and a peer???

By: davis

davis — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:31:14 +0000

is there a way to speed up the downloads, i have a very fast wireless connection, and yet my downloads take hours. or is this normal?

thanks….

G. Davis

By: Fuck IFPI and the BPI

Fuck IFPI and the BPI — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:10:18 +0000

what about traffic shapers?

By: Adamhman

Adamhman — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:59:35 +0000

Thanks!

Can anyone tell me what “notv” means, when it is part of a file name of an avi file?

By: Ratfungus

Ratfungus — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:35:17 +0000

Hi
Thanks for the useful info. I have a question that you might be able to answer. Can you tell me what NoGrp means please?

Thanks in advance.

By: fujianizona

fujianizona — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:44:56 +0000

These definitions were most helpful for me to understand what scrapes and super seeds are all about. However, there are two other terms I am trying to figure out and thus I’d love to see in the list of definitions — Bad Seeder and Hit-And-Runner. Can someone fill me in on what these are? Thanx!

By: Maniakc

Maniakc — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:20:26 +0000

Thanks, I had no idea what “Scrape” meant :P Thats the only one I needed help with!

By: Snakehead

Snakehead — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:18:02 +0000

Thanks nice article.It will help new user to understand more about torrent

By: Ultra

Ultra — Sun, 06 May 2007 01:34:34 +0000

Being new to torrenting, the lingo is a bit overwhelming. This was a very nice introduction that cleared up quite a bit of the mystery associated with bit torrent jargon. Thank you.

I did have one question about sharing. I recently torrented a group of files that it appears that nobody wants. I just sit out there offering to seed with no takers. How long is a reasonable time to wait for a taker (it’s been two days and I’m like insulted that in the whole world nobody liked this mp3, lol). So this is more of an etiquette question, along with a share ratio question. Would it be better to offer another “more desired” file rather than the “no taker” files.

By: harry

harry — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:01:26 +0000

hi thanks great

i have been dowloading stuff but now i understand what these jargon means

thanks again

By: kM

kM — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:43:14 +0000

NUKED -

A film can be nuked for various reasons. Individual sites will nuke for breaking their rules (such as “No Telesyncs”) but if the film has something extremely wrong with it (no soundtrack for 20mins, CD2 is incorrect film/game etc) then a global nuke will occur, and people trading it across sites will lose their credits. Nuked films can still reach other sources such as p2p/usenet, but its a good idea to check why it was nuked first in case. If a group realise there is something wrong, they can request a nuke.

NUKE REASONS…

this is a list of common reasons a film can be nuked for (generally DVDRip)

BAD A/R = bad aspect ratio, i.e. people appear too fat/thin
BAD IVTC = bad inverse telecine; process of converting frame rates was incorrect.
INTERLACED = black lines on movement as the field order is incorrect.

By: Gus

Gus — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:59:59 +0000

Yeah, i would like to know what you type in google search to only get torrent results

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:42:07 +0000

What does it mean when a torrent is “nuked”.

By: knight17

knight17 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:17:28 +0000

That was a nice guide for n00bs.I found it difficult at first time while I used Bittorrent but at that time I searched Yahoo!(I some times like Yahoo! and Gigablast than Google :)) for each term and learn about almost everything.

@BOLt
uTorrent doesn’t allow you to install any type of plug ins at all :(.The developer has said in the FAQ section that that feature won’t be added to uTorrent in the future, May be he wish to keep the application as light as he possibly can and avoid any security loop holes.

By: axea

axea — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:14:13 +0000

Very useful guide for a noobie AND for people (like me) who though using torrent for a while now are not conversant with what goes on under the hood.

Thanks

By: BOLt

BOLt — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:11:59 +0000

Nice guide. I knew pretty much all of the terms except for the last one. Thanks for clearing up the particulars of DHTs.

Is there any sort of counterpart to Azureus’s visualization plugin for, say, uTorrent?

Thanks!

By: Snake

Snake — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:04:42 +0000

Really helpfull topic, I’m also new to bittorrent. Bu thanks to this now I know what that (stupid me) up ratio means.

Keep on seeding.

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By: mike

mike — Wed, 31 May 2006 21:32:39 +0000

Thanks man i did’t know all of them
good luck with the cops

Mike from Greece !!
To seed or not to seed that is the quest
SEED long and PROSPER
(i know i will)
seedlong man ;)

By: don juan

don juan — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:46:00 +0000

what are the announce.php stuff?

By: ste uk

ste uk — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:23:12 +0000

mucho gratci,

nice one kid,

By: djlodose

djlodose — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:28:29 +0000

I’m new to torrenting but I still havent figured out to make my own torrent which is bigger than the 8mb that BitComet has..any help will be appreciated.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:37:52 +0000

@Valeriu Ginghina

You don’t have to do anything. Just keep bitcomet running and you will see that you will keep uploading

By: Valeriu Ginghina

Valeriu Ginghina — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:25:12 +0000

I am also new on torrents, and the dictionary was really helpful to me. There is still one question (for now… :-) ) which is bothering me: how do you “seed” the torrent once you have downloaded the file? I found in BitComet menu some two items, “seed only” and “reseed only”. Do I have to use one of them after I finish downloading the desired files?
Thanks!!

By: Fredspage

Fredspage — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:27:27 +0000

This cleared up a lot of my queries. Although I wrote my first computer programs in 1961 I am afraid it has gotten away from me in the last few years.
Fred

By: EVTT

EVTT — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:48:33 +0000

Yeah, also add a sentence ~ BitTorrent clients “peer sharing” to last chapter – and “Reseeding” as well.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:46:27 +0000

you’re right falafel, added .torrent

By: falafelboy

falafelboy — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:00:32 +0000

Excellent summary, very easy to follow. But…hmmmm…you forgot to define a torrent file!

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:54:32 +0000

That’s right Volker, I’ll rephrase it to make that clear. Added ratio.

By: Volker

Volker — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:31:27 +0000

Thanks for the definitions. But isn’t the swarm just the clients that a client ‘knows of’ (is in contact with, has handshaked with recently …), rather than ‘all the people’ (sc. in the torrent) ??
Best,
Volker

By: Steffen

Steffen — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:58:28 +0000

Nice stuff. Some of these words I wasn’t that familiar with.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:29:25 +0000

lol TheWatcher, I will add Indexer ;)

By: TheWatcher

TheWatcher — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:06:39 +0000

Indexer – Indexers are websites which list (index) the 1,000s of .torrent files available. The best indexer is myBittorrent.com! Nah … just kidding. There are loads out there. Greetz go to mininova.org, torrentspy.com, torrentreactor.net, torrentportal.com and torrentz.com :)

By: Michael Ayala

Michael Ayala — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:51:11 +0000

Thank you. I’m new to torrent. These definitions were helpful and brief. Can you provide more definitions/info in the same format.