Author Topic: Tech-related problems (Read 640334 times)

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #280 on:** September 22, 2006, 12:35:02 PM »

Quote from: chera

I'm using utorrent, and find that when I set my DL max speed to unlimited and my UL max speed to unlimited, my DL speeds are low, about 80-100kBps.

But when I set DL max speed to unlimited and my UL max speed to 10kBps, my DL speeds are flaming fast, 400kBps. This is the same speed that I can download stuff from the filedump if I don't have any other apps on, so its pretty much saturating my broadband DL connection.

But its also making do some very unsocial behavior, and is really screwin up my tracker ratios. Any suggestions?

For upload speeds stay at least 20% below the maximum upload speed of your internet connection, it might take a bit longer to re-upload until you reach a 1.0+ ratio, but the downloads will stay fast.
Saturating the upload means the torrent program also can't send out requests for new packets, that is why the download slows when you upload at maximum.

Shinora · « **Reply #281 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:28:34 AM »

hiya, i have a tech problem that none of my friends to be able to solve. so i hope one of you guys here will know the solution to my problem. for one of my lectures, we have online videos thats seems to be streamed from the schools FTP or some other place onto our universities' intranet. and i've been trying to figure out how to download these streamed videos cuz they'd make an excellent studying tool when it comes to the exams. i've tried various methods such as "right clicking and save as", using multiple programs such as streambox and none of them seems to be working. im guessing the problem is because the link to the video is .html. btw, it seems to be possible b/c during one of my other lectures i saw this guy a couple rows below me download the files with a .rm (realmedia) as the extention thing instead of .html. too bad i wasn't able to find him after class =( hopefully someone here can help me in downloading these streamed videos.

Mugen · « **Reply #282 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:41:16 AM »

Quote from: frblckstr1

First return on google for a search of this error points to:

http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108340

I would try that...

thanks for that, i was able to run it after fiddling around for 30 minutes. good site.

ohbahsan · « **Reply #283 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:54:24 AM »

Quote from: Shinora

... and i've been trying to figure out how to download these streamed videos ...

You have a url we can look at? Or copy/paste the html source of the page that contains the streaming video link?

Shinora · « **Reply #284 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:57:14 AM »

Quote from: ohbahsan

You have a url we can look at? Or copy/paste the html source of the page that contains the streaming video link?

this is the site for all the videos til now
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/online.html

heres the source code for one of the videos

ECMA04 - Lecture 2 - Prof. Krashinsky

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #285 on:** September 27, 2006, 04:21:57 AM »

http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week1GC/L1.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week1MK/L1.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week1GC/L2.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week1MK/L2.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week2GC/L3m.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week2MK/L3m.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week2GC/L4m.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week2MK/L4m.rm
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~ecma04/Week3GC/L5m.rm

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #286 on:** September 27, 2006, 07:26:34 AM »

Try:

It will download the file of demo 1

(AARGH, Foxy! I should read the 'next page' the next time...

smoothee · « **Reply #287 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:22:38 PM »

i use DAP [download accelerator plus] for all my downloads but since yesterday.. whenever i open the porgram and click resume downloads it says 'error occured' and the whole thing shuts down.. does anyone have similiar problem? or can anyone reccoment another download accelerator program?

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #288 on:** September 27, 2006, 04:37:14 PM »

I have a problem with my torrent downloads. It was downloading at normal speeds about a week ago (even with a low number of seeds/peers) but three days ago, my download rate started to suffer, it's only downloading at 10% the speed it used to and 10% of a 512kbps is really slow, the thing is, the downloads are fine if there are a lot of seeds/peers (10k and above). I was wondering what could be the cause of this. I didn't change anything before it happened.

idiotboy · « **Reply #289 on:** September 27, 2006, 05:09:54 PM »

Quote from: huggumwuggums

I have a problem with my torrent downloads. It was downloading at normal speeds about a week ago (even with a low number of seeds/peers) but three days ago, my download rate started to suffer, it's only downloading at 10% the speed it used to and 10% of a 512kbps is really slow, the thing is, the downloads are fine if there are a lot of seeds/peers (10k and above). I was wondering what could be the cause of this. I didn't change anything before it happened.

have you patched yr system recently: installed any microsoft updates or similar? MS limits the number of half-open connections to 10 - it tends to reset this limit each time you patch yr system. try running the Event ID 4226 Patcher (4226 fix) and check that yr number of connections hasn't been reset to 10.

otherwise: has yr firewall recently patched or upgraded itself? my zonealarm pro always gets a bit funky with torrents after an upgrade.

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #290 on:** September 27, 2006, 06:58:15 PM »

Yeah. I've done the Event ID thing a while back and I did it again to make sure, everything seems to be the way it used to be. I have a feeling my ISP has something to do with this.

idiotboy · « **Reply #291 on:** September 27, 2006, 07:21:53 PM »

Quote from: huggumwuggums

Yeah. I've done the Event ID thing a while back and I did it again to make sure, everything seems to be the way it used to be. I have a feeling my ISP has something to do with this.

in which case, are you using a torrent client that supports encryption - utorrent or azureus, basically - and do you have encryption enabled?

i can speak from pesonal experience that with encryption enabled, yr ISP (or in my case, network admin) can't id yr packets as torrent packets. they can tell that yr upping/ downloading a stream of data, but not that the data is torrent activity.

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #292 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:19:55 PM »

^ I'm currently using uTorrent and yeah, encryption is enabled but the problem still persists. A lot of other users around my area are also experiencing slow torrent downloads so I suspect that our ISP has something to do with it, and I say WE because almost 90%(maybe even more) of Malaysians who uses broadband uses the same ISP.

SacredCultivator · « **Reply #293 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:27:51 PM »

Dear Readers,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem:

Video Playback
^Posted link because of the multiple sites I asked, that one gave most input.

But anyway.. I was wondering if there is any way to either have a smoother playback, convert to .avi/.mpg without having to download too many programs.. as I googled this problem and it takes too many programs to fully convert a .ts to .avi... and meh... So yeah, I would appreciate any feedback upon this matter, and if you need more information do ask.

Thanks.

RatBastich · « **Reply #294 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:28:05 PM »

^Have you tried switching ports, huggums?

ISP's tend to throttle traffic through the more common ports.

@SacredCultivator:

Have you tried Gordian Knot or AutoGK?
Your post intrigued me, so I'm running a .ts file I recently downloaded thru AutoGK to see what my end result will be.
Personally, I don't any trouble playing .ts files, but, I'm curious as to which file you're having trouble with.

After my encode is done, and I've checked it, I'll post back with the results.

Edit: Ok, both Gknot and AutoGK won't do it as it is, so I'll try to demux it.

ohbahsan · « **Reply #295 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:44:52 PM »

Quote from: SacredCultivator

But anyway.. I was wondering if there is any way to either have a smoother playback, convert to .avi/.mpg without having to download too many programs.. as I googled this problem and it takes too many programs to fully convert a .ts to .avi... and meh... So yeah, I would appreciate any feedback upon this matter, and if you need more information do ask.

have you taken a look at mplayer/mencoder? it can convert ts to avi, heck you don't even need to install any codecs. Not for the faint of heart but it does the job. It might even help you with smoother .ts playback.

SacredCultivator · « **Reply #296 on:** September 28, 2006, 09:56:42 PM »

Alright

Well a test file can be tried at:
Morning Musume - Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari (2004.07.23 BS-hi Pop Jam)

A few more test files:
Mr. Moonlight
As For One Day

@L-San: never heard of either of those two =X, haha and yeah using K-Lite Mega Codecs Pack... tried I think it was called CoreAVC + CCCP, along with HDTVPump, a few players (VLC/GOM/BSPlayer).

@Ohbahsan: I do have a Converter, SUPER(c), but with as many different settings that I put on it.. the outcome shows too much.. 'Lines'(Interlacing) not sure of the term. That is why if I can find an easy converter(Without having to download so many programs) I am better off just converting rather than with thsi hassle of CHoppy Playbacks.

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #297 on:** September 28, 2006, 10:43:14 PM »

Quote from: L-san

^Have you tried switching ports, huggums?

ISP's tend to throttle traffic through the more common ports.

Yeap. Tried that too. They did a research/investigation recently and found out that 70% of the bandwith are drained by only 17% of the users and all/most of them are P2P users. But the problem could only be from the congestion because not all users are experiencing the slowdown.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #298 on:** September 28, 2006, 10:51:27 PM »

Quote from: huggumwuggums

Yeap. Tried that too. They did a research/investigation recently and found out that 70% of the bandwith are drained by only 17% of the users and all/most of them are P2P users. But the problem could only be from the congestion because not all users are experiencing the slowdown.

Some isp's do something called "traffic shaping" to stop people using bittorrent. If you use a bt prog that encrypts the data you might be able to get around it.

An isp I was on a few years ago moved all the "heavy downloaders" onto the same server so they were all slowing each other down and that left the other servers for the others. They even used a statistic similar to your "70% of the bandwith are drained by only 17% of the users" as the reason why they did it.

SacredCultivator · « **Reply #299 on:** September 29, 2006, 01:44:54 AM »

I have tried a few players...

GOM- Played Video SMOOTHLY but no sound
MMP 10- Played Smoothly(After installing HDTVPump) but no sound
MPC- Choppy with sound(smooth)
BSPlayer- Played video choppy and with sound(smooth)
VLC- Choppy and with sound(smooth)

And yes I do have KLite Mega Codec 1.59 Installed.

Edit; Alright.. I tried out VLC again and just started messing around with allt he settings.. and somehow I got it to work lol.. but not my only MINOR complaint about it is... Is there anyway to make it SAVE settings. by means that whenever I play a file it will remember to set the window/video size to FILL the screen? rather than having me manually right click-> Aspect Ratio 4:3 everytime? because that is annoying.. And also even at 4:3 there are gaps on the top and bottom and I was wondering if that can be like MPC and stretch to full screen?