Comments on: Azureus – A Beginner’s Guide to BitTorrent Downloading

By: tonyliem

tonyliem — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:19:24 +0000

very good torrent, fantastic.
I really thank to Vuze.

By: MorphineInduced

MorphineInduced — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Its good that someone was to come out with this …. I see alot of people that have problems when coming to AZ …. good job

By: kari14

kari14 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

This was very very helpful in some sense but I still am confused. I’m a beginner to this whole Azureus thing. After reading your article I decided that I should try and download Azureus and give it a try. I’m a former Kazaa and Limewire user and I was totally confused about bittorrent. I downloaded Azureus followed your steps (I think I may have made a mistake) then went to a torrent site downloaded a torrent opend it up in my Azureus and began to download… when.. a blue smiley face came next to it and the file stopped downloading. I’m a wireless user (not dial up in case u were wondering..). Can you help me further? I really want to learn this whole Torrent thing.

By: kari14

kari14 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

What does this mean? “Tracker is down”

By: kari14

kari14 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

sigh perhaps i should just go back to limewire

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Sounds like the tracker where the torrent was submitted too is is either timing out cause of a large amount of traffic or it is offline. That’s why I stick to smaller tracker sites I hate running into tracker issues. But I wouldn’t leave BT for gnutella! Why not use both anyways?

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Also. not to state the obvious but did you test your ports as noted above? http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6351/Azureus+-+A+Beginner%27s+Guide+to+BitTorrent+Downloading#a5

By: kari14

kari14 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

no because i dont know what ports to pick when im plugging in numbers…. -_-
Jorge do you know any small tracker sites?

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

It states above which ports to pick will list here again for you………….

“Remember the range of reccomended ports to use is from 49512 to 65535 and the selected port must be forwarded if operating behind a router. As you can see in the picture I went ahead and used port 49512 and then TESTED it. Since it came back “OK!” I then APPLIED those settings. It’s that easy.”

For better connectability when using a PUBLIC SITE I reccomend using TORRENTSPY.com

By: kari14

kari14 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

ok even when I pick the right port I still get download speed of 5kb/s average…