Torrent help basic advice

[John Hall]

I have torrent files *.torrent that you can use with progeammes like uTorrent. I do not understan how to use bittorrents with the BUBBA download page.

Thank you John

[albert]

Good question!

I was struggling with this as well. I am able to start downloads when I fill in the link to the torrent file. But once I have a torrent file, how do you use that?

Albert

[johannes]

Yes, that's a feature requested by some customers, and will be available in the next software release (coming soon). Then, there will be a torrent folder, just drop your torrent files there and they will download.

For now, the only way is to past the link to the torrent file in the downloader. (however, I guess it should work to paste a link to the file even if it's local, like c:\mytorrentfiles\torrent.torrent).

So, our next release will solve our problems!

[John Hall]

I have tried pasting a link and it does not seem to work. My link is in the format with Xeon being the computer and the rest is the folders and file names.

\\Xeon\J SCSI DATA\\Tor\*.torrent

Any ideas?

John

[johannes]

Ah, my bad, didn't think that post through. Very sorry.

Of course won't work unless you publish the file on a local web server (like if you place it in Bubba's web folder), and link to that. So, save the file in \\bubba\home\web\, and then paste that link into the download manager, for instance: http://bubba/testtorrent.torrent.

This works.

[tor]

With the latest firmware upgrade it is possible to drop these files in the torrent directory in your home folder and the torrent should be downloaded.

(Note, the torrent directory is not created until an ordinary download is done with the newest version. So if you dont have a torrent directory, do a normal torrent download and it should be created.)

/Tor