Bittorrent - Battle for Wesnoth 1.1.2a for Windows

Post by **Kestenvarn** » April 9th, 2006, 10:41 pm

I've set one of these up on a site called Demonoid, but not sure what information to post that will allow people to join. Here is one of the links described on the page, anyways... that may be all you need, I dunno.

http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/downlo ... id.torrent

Demonoid FAQ wrote:Am I allowed to upload my torrent tracked by demonoid to other sites?
Yes you are. It's your torrent, as long as the torrent is in sync with the site rules, you may do with it whatever you want.

It may actually be wise to add your torrent to other sites. This will undoubtedly increase your traffic. More traffic means a faster distribution of the torrent.

Sounds like it's okay with them...

Post by **Ken_Oh** » April 10th, 2006, 12:01 am

I'm getting a loggin screen. It also says, "The registrations are closed."

Can't you just post the .torrent file here as an attachment? Those things are tiny.

Post by **Kestenvarn** » April 10th, 2006, 12:48 am

I don't think so. I'm not familiar with this program at all, I jsut remember someone requesting it.

Post by **Ken_Oh** » April 10th, 2006, 1:08 am

The Demonoid FAQ says that you can upload the torrent file to whatever site you want (as long as it complies with some standards).

When I said "Can't you" I wasn't asking if you were able to, I was actually trying to say "Please, do this".

Post by **Kestenvarn** » April 10th, 2006, 1:37 am

You can't attach torrent files. I don't think that's even how it works anyways.

Here is other information on the page:

Peers: 2 seeders, 2 leechers, 4 total
Tracker: http://inferno.demonoid.com:3391/announce
File hash: 60d5693ddb67f5a6338176f0059f0ff691551fbea1412652
Torrent file downloads: 11
Target file downloads: 2
Last seeder activity: 38 seconds ago
Files described inside the torrent: 2 [ Click here to show the full list ]

JW · Post by JW » April 10th, 2006, 1:41 am

Put the bit torrent file in a .zip and upload it. People can then download the .zip, unzip it, run the bit torrent file with the appropriate bit torrent program and download the file. The file will need hosts though; does the torrent download the Wesnoth 1.1.2a installer .zip? If so I will redownload it and try to host it when I can. (I delete installers after I run them.)

Post by **Ken_Oh** » April 10th, 2006, 1:49 am

Torrents work by a client using the data within the .torrent file to connect to a tracker server and other users to share the larger file that's associated wtih it. All you have to do to download Wesnoth 1.1.2a, in this case, would be to run the file BattleforWesnoth112a2118978_Demonoid.torrent through a bittorrent client.

That is unless -if- Demonoid requires users to log in to the website to connect to the tracker (the site server stores IPs and allows only those to connect to the tracker). If Demonoid requires that, and its registration is closed, then I don't understand how anyone here would be able to use it. If not, then anyone can use it.

You could put the .torrent file in a .zip file and upload it here, then maybe someone could use it.

EDIT: JW said the same thing while I was typing (and playing MPvsAI Battle World map ;p )

Post by **Kestenvarn** » April 10th, 2006, 10:00 am

Okay, here we go...

Post by **Kestenvarn** » April 12th, 2006, 9:02 am

Well, even if no one here can make use of it*, there have been quite a few downloads; so it's not totally worthless.

Tracker: http://inferno.demonoid.com:3391/announce
File hash: 60d5693ddb67f5a6338176f0059f0ff691551fbea1412652
Torrent file downloads: 28
Target file downloads: 39
Last seeder activity: 10 minutes ago
Files described inside the torrent: 2 [ Click here to show the full list ]

*I'm guessing this since there were no replies.

Post by **torangan** » April 12th, 2006, 11:55 am

You know, there are way more downloads of it on sourceforge every day... Of course, it's rather hard to notice the torrent but it'd be nice to offer this way for the next release right from the start. If someone puts up a torrent and offers to be a constant seed for some time, I see no problems in linking the .torrent from http://www.wesnoth.org.

Post by **Kestenvarn** » April 12th, 2006, 12:06 pm

So is it working for forumers?

I'll probably end up doing it again on Demonoid for the next version of Wesnoth that comes out for Windows, anyways.

Post by **Ken_Oh** » April 12th, 2006, 12:37 pm

Yeah, it's working. That's great that you went through the trouble of putting it up. If I had more bandwidth to work with, I'd do it myself. Thanks.

Post by **Viliam** » April 12th, 2006, 2:52 pm

Yes, it works for me.

Somehow slowly, but this is probably because of my slow connection and downloading 20 large files at the same time.

krazykarl · Post by **krazykarl** » December 8th, 2006, 11:01 pm

Sorry to reopen this post, but on the demponoid website it says that registrations open every friday. (That's today)

Draicone · Post by **Draicone** » February 17th, 2007, 9:45 am

As above, sorry to open a dead thread, but I just thought I'd mention that I run an open source torrent tracker and track the latest releases of Wesnoth.

I update the wiki download page with the torrent link, but it isn't officially endorsed by Wesnoth and I don't have write access on the files so I can't update the main website (assuming it is hosted on an sf.net cluster).

The torrent is well distributed, and within a few days of starting it people are getting speeds of 100kb/sec on 1.2.1 for Windows, so it's worth it. (I can also track download numbers)

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