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| What is B&P trading? |
| An excellent guide is available at http://www.mcnichol.com/bnp/.
B&P basically stands for blanks and postage. This method of trading allows a new or novice trader who has a very minimal collection to get shows. In return for sending blank discs and return postage, the new/novice trader can acquire excellent shows via the mail. |
| Why does everybody use Exact Audio Copy (EAC)? |
| Why does everybody use Exact Audio Copy (EAC)? EAC is one of the only CD ripping programs that re-checks every sample over and over again to correct any errors that might have been created during extraction. Additionally, after every extraction, EAC provides a status report which indicates the extraction quality for every track. If it does not come out to 100%, refer to the question below. Because errors are inevitable during the process extraction, the only way to prevent them is to always use EAC, and make sure that your status reports always report 100% track quality for every track. You can download EAC for free from the official EAC website. |
| Why are my ul/dl transfer stats displayed as zero bytes? |
| Why are my ul/dl transfer stats displayed as zero bytes? This are known issues with a handful of clients that don't report the completion of the BitTorrent to the Tracker. Transfer stats are updated by the Tracker when a BitTorrent is completed and the client has been closed. Verified working clients: ABC (Another BitTorrent Client) Azureus (supported) BitTorrent uTorrent (supported) Bit Tornado (aka Shadow's Experimental) Verified faulty clients: Shareaza |
| How do I resume a broken download or reseed something? |
| How do I resume a broken download or reseed something? Open the .torrent file. When your client asks you for a location, choose the location of the existing file(s) and it will resume/reseed the torrent. |
| Why do my downloads sometimes stall at 99%? |
| Why do my downloads sometimes stall at 99%? The more complete your BitTorrent is, the harder it becomes to find peers who have the pieces you are missing. Therefore your download may slow down or even stall when there is just a few percent remaining. Just be patient and you will, sooner or later, get the remaining pieces. |
| Where can I ask questions not covered in this FAQ? |
| Where can I ask questions not covered in this FAQ? http://bootcity.org/forumdisplay.php?f=4 |
| Whenever I download something my bandwidth goes to hell, and I end up uploading/downloading too fast I cant even surf the net, what can I do? |
| Whenever I download something my bandwidth goes to hell, and I end up uploading/downloading too fast I cant even surf the net, what can I do? This sometimes happens, if its uploading to fast or sending to too many connections you can adjust the amount of computers you connect to at any given time and how much kb/s any one person can get from you using Burst! or the Experimental BT client, however, this will decrease the rate at which you download, as the two work in tandem with each other to promote faster downloads and anti-leeching. To adjust the number of uploads just change the numbers on the BT client itself. If youre downloading too fast this is a bit more of a problem. You can try limiting your download speed with Net-Limiter http://www.netlimiter.com/. Just install and run the program before you start using BT. |
| How to I use BitTorrent efficiently? Can you give me some tips? |
| #1. Make sure that you have opened the ports from the firewall [your bittorrent client of choice] requires. Downloads can be slow or not work at all if the ports are not opened. If your internet connection is behind a NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall, you must configure the firewall to "forward" bittorrent ports to the computer bittorrent client is running on. See Brian's faq for more details.
#2. Keep downloads open even after they are finished. Bittorrent differs from DC: after the download is complete, your client should start seeding it right away. This means, when you've downloaded a movie using bittorrent, you help the original uploader to share it (pass it on). Even if the original uploader stops seeding the torrent (i.e. removes it from the hard drive) the torrent will stay alive in the tracker and people still are able to download it. If no one of the downloaders seed the torrent they've downloaded, the torrent will probably die at some point because the uploader cannot hold it on his/her hard drive forever. Also, you can gain upload ratio by seeding the torrent. Also, the people who upload torrents a lot will have to keep an awful amount of torrents in seed if no one else seeds them. This consumes a lot of RAM (escpecially if using Azureus). #3. Watch your Upload / Download ratio - don't start downloading anything new if your ratio is poor. Instead, create and upload torrents yourself. That's the best way to gain ratio. #4. Limit your upload speed. Yeah, in BitTorrent it is absolutely fine to limit your upload bandwidth (unlike in DC where you can quickly get banned for limiting). Only thing that matters is your U/D ratio. A recommended upload limit is 60% - 80% of your upload bandwidth. So, if you have 512kbps upload bandwidth (theoretical 64KB/s), it would be a good idea to limit it to 50KB/s. Azureus has built-in upload limiting functionality. In windows, NetLimiter is also available although that's not recommended. In most cases this can even make your download speeds faster, your internet connection usable without affecting your upload ratio. This way you may not never need to shut down your bittorrent client just because you need to use your internet connection. |
| How do I find out if I'm behind a (transparent/anonymous) proxy? |
| Try ProxyJudge. It lists the HTTP headers that the server where it is running received from you. The relevant ones are HTTP_CLIENT_IP, HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and REMOTE_ADDR. |
| The torrent is supposed to be 100MB. How come I downloaded 120MB? |
| See the hash fails topic. If your client receives bad data it will have to redownload it, therefore the total downloaded may be larger than the torrent size. Make sure the "kick/ban" option is turned on to minimize the extra downloads. |
| Why did an active torrent suddenly disappear? |
| There may be three reasons for this: #1. The torrent may have been out-of-sync with the site rules. #2. The uploader may have deleted it because it was a bad release. A replacement will probably be uploaded to take its place. #3. Torrents are automatically deleted after a scheduled period of inactivity. |
| I got the following error: A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host |
| If you receive the "A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host" error and are using PeerGuardian you can fix this by doing the following:
Enter Peerguardian and Allow the following IP address permanently: 64.34.163.79 |
| Guide to common file types. |
| Compression Files: .rar .zip .ace .r01 .001 These extensions are quite common and mean that your file(s) are compressed into an "archive". This is just a way of making the files more compact and easier to download. To open any of those archives listed above you can use WinRAR (Make sure you have the latest version) or PowerArchiver. If those progams aren't working for you and you have a .zip file you can try WinZip (Trial version). If the two first mentioned programs aren't working for you and you have a .ace or .001 file you can try Winace (Trial version). .cbr .cbz These are usually comic books in an archive format. a .cbr file is actually the same thing as a .rar file and a .cbz file is the same as a .zip file. However, often when opening them with WinRAR or WinZip it will disorder your pages. To display these archives properly it's often best to use CDisplay. Multimedia Files: CD Image Files: .bin and .cue Other Files: .txt .doc .par This is a parity file, and is often used when downloading from newsgroups. These files can fill in gaps when you're downloading a multi-volume archive and get corrupted or missing parts. Open them with QuickPar. This guide to common file formats was originally written by hussdiesel at filesoup and then edited by us. |
| Infractions & Account Suspension |
| With so many members on the website it is sometimes difficult for the management to keep track of who is doing what. In response to this problem, we have developed an infraction system using points. There are many ways to receive infraction points including but not limited too: - duplicate accounts - sharing personal passkeys - uploading commercial material - member harassment - customized infractions If a member accumulates 1000 points they are banned from the website for a time frame determined by management. Points also expire after time. This is to weed out the innocent mistakes from the malicious intentioned users. If you receive infraction points, please be sure to read through our rules to be sure it will not happen again. Your points will expire and you will start clean. Serious infractions such as harrasing, threatening or spamming behavior will never expire. |