I created a torrent for my collection of music, because it's ungodly slow to transfer all of this to my phone by cable and this way I can keep it up to date easily.
(besides, I can't sit with my phone hooked to the computer all day)
So I've nstalled µTorrent on my phone as the way of receiving the data, and µTorrent on my machine for sending it.
Anyways, the problem is as follows:
[img]http://puu.sh/7JWPE.png[/img]
µTorrent simply does not seed it. It appears detect my phone as a peer I suppose, as it's showing "0 (1)" under "peers".
Does anyone have any clue why it's not seeding? Is it somehow related to those things that say that they'll update in like half an hour?
Google could not help me with this.
µTorrent apparently has the capability to transfer over local networks, but yeah it's not working.
[QUOTE=paul simon;44358463]I created a torrent for my collection of music, because it's ungodly slow to transfer all of this to my phone by cable and this way I can keep it up to date easily.
(besides, I can't sit with my phone hooked to the computer all day)
So I've nstalled µTorrent on my phone as the way of receiving the data, and µTorrent on my machine for sending it.
Anyways, the problem is as follows:
[img]http://puu.sh/7JWPE.png[/img]
µTorrent simply does not seed it. It appears detect my phone as a peer I suppose, as it's showing "0 (1)" under "peers".
Does anyone have any clue why it's not seeding? Is it somehow related to those things that say that they'll update in like half an hour?
Google could not help me with this.
µTorrent apparently has the capability to transfer over local networks, but yeah it's not working.[/QUOTE]
Give it some time. Bootstrapping of torrents can, in certain cases, take a long long time. I've never had this issue before though, but try and be patient.
I wish there was something in the program that told me why it's taking so long, what exactly is happening etc.
Oh well. I'll give it some time.
[editline]26th March 2014[/editline]
What are trackers for anyways?
[editline]26th March 2014[/editline]
Alright I found a WAY better option for this.
"Bittorrent Sync". Keeps my music folder synced up to my phone at all times. Awesome.
[QUOTE=paul simon;44358518]I wish there was something in the program that told me why it's taking so long, what exactly is happening etc.
Oh well. I'll give it some time.
[editline]26th March 2014[/editline]
What are trackers for anyways?[/QUOTE]
Trackers keep track of what computers allegedly has a certain kind of content. Each type of content is identified with a hash of a sort. I believe that most of these systems use the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, to generate a unique hash for each "content". Then each client will broadcast to the tracker that it has content with the hash of such, enabling clients that all are downloading content with that hash, to share the content with eachother, thus balancing the load of downloading content out to a load of clients, instead of a centralized server. In theory, this will allow more clients to download the same content, than if it was hosted on a central server.
You probably don't want to broadcast that you have that music content to a tracker though, but just enable PEX and Local Peer Discovery, as well as DHT (which you have), and leave the rest up to your phones torrent client. Also make sure that your phones client supports these features, and is indeed downloading the same hash as you are (you should simply start the same torrent both places).
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