Bittorrent problems

Odzangba K. Dake odzangba at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 00:25:34 UTC 2009


On Friday 20 February 2009 12:47:18 Flynn, Steve (L & P - IT) wrote:
> The Bittorrent protocol ensures that only data which matches it's
> checksum is stored to disk. If you've only managed to get 34 meg out of
> 928 meg saved, then this may be the problem - something is sending you
> corrupted data or something is corrupting the data en route.
>
> Which torrent are you using to control the download?

Sorry about the delay in responding... was out of town for the weekend. If the 
question is what bittorrent client am I using, Transmission.

> I don't have a Transmission client available to me at the moment but I
> believe you can view how much data has been re-requested as it's been
> bad by looking at the stats of the transfer. Certainly Azureus can show
> you this and I believe Transmission can also - I'll check when I return
> home.

I'll monitor the download over the next few hours and see if the problem 
persists.

Thanks

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Odzangba




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