A plug for GPL/MIT Transmission (windows version http://trqtw.sf.net/ )
If you want to avoid ads and bundled spyware, better to use up-to-date FOSS instead of years-old unsupported versions of uTorrent.
If you want to avoid ads and bundled spyware, better to use up-to-date FOSS instead of years-old unsupported versions of uTorrent.
That way you use bandwidth where it's cheap and don't tax your, often battery-bound, local device.
apt-get update
apt-get install rtorrent
rtorrent file.torrent // use ctr + q to quit ssh user@host cat movie.mkv | mplayer - This works fine for most usage cases, however you can't go forwards/backwards in my experience, and the stream will fail if you experience network issues - you'll need to download the whole thing from your droplet to your local computer if that happens.
I haven't tested it, but I believe it should work.
1. Create droplet. 2. install rTorrent. 3. Setup any additional services/software you require (i.e. ruTorrent, SSH, etc.). 4. Create snapshot.
I honestly don't see much benefit to this setup other than the fact you can pay for droplets on an hourly basis, and not run the droplet constantly.
[1] https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki/RPC-Setup-XMLRPC
Oh how many times have I tried to download a file where the most complete seeder only has 95% of the download because all the people who had finished dropped off.
I only need the sequential download to proceed a little bit faster than playback. After that, bandwidth should be used to re-assert the (future) health of the torrent, so that segments at the end continue to have enough seeders.
Why is it better to use up-to-date FOSS if the older version of uTorrent works fine (better even, in my experience)?
That's only one of several cases where I've recommended a truly good, open source or freeware app for Windows, to have the person become angry with me for sending them on a spyware-laden wild goose chase. From now on I just offer to install the app they need for them, using ninite.com instead of the original source. And it shouldn't have to be that way.
[1] http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/23234-can-paintn...
Windows users do not constitute a "community". So if something's zero-financial-transaction-"free", it may still be bundled with exploitware and negative-added-value software.
But it's not for everyone. Most of my clients in the past have had specific commercial software requirements, so I wouldn't even bring up switching platforms. These days it's easier, as everything is moving to software as a service and web apps, and they are already used to running their home office from their iPad or Android tablets. Still, I make sure that my end goal is to offer the best value to my client, not push potentially unfamiliar and net-cost-ineffective solutions based on software license alone.
I've tried Transmission (on Linux) and Deluge, but I prefer the more familiar and simpler interface of qBittorent.
My only gripe with it is that in utorrent I could sort the torrent column by "last finished" or something like that. In qBittorent it's harder to find the last torrents that you downloaded, which can be annoying when you have a few dozen in the list.
Is this still the case? If not, I'd like to give Transmission another try.
Deluge forever.