Consolevania 2 Is Ready

[JPickford (retired mod)]

This high speed was for the start and the widely available pieces it seems, my download has now settled to 25/40 kb/s. I have massive upload so I tend to get favoured by most bittorrent clients.

It's interesting that you can see how far everyone has got. You are on 44.6% as I type this, you had 10meg from me and I've had 2.73 meg from you. Not fair

[taiAtari]

All will be right in the end, I've stopped my other torrents and am uploading at 75 kb/s now .

[rob_quill]

Unless I am mistaken, there are 2 seeds and 67 peers. Presumably that means 2 people who have the full version? But the other 67 are uploading and downloading?

Rob

[Alex W.]

2 people have the full version which acts as a sort of reference; everyone else is trading bits and pieces of the files.

[kaisu]

Mine just stopped working.I'd left it for ages and didn't check it either.That's about an hours worth of downloading i've lost now.

I seems there is only one seed now.

[Pow]

how do you mean it's stopped working? what client are you using?

[kaisu]

how do you mean it's stopped working? what client are you using?

It just stopped downloading, Completly.Like it had crashed.I'm using the bitorrent experimental client.I was using Torrent storm but i formatted my hard drive the other day and didn't get around to downloading it again.i just downloaded the first one i came accross when i knew Concolevania was out.

[GamesMaster]

I got CV1 last month and I loved every minute of it, I was so pleased with it that if I was George Foreman I’d have put my name on it! Seriously it’s a great show I’ve watched it a couple of times and I sent a few VCDs of it around the country to my non-broadband friends and they all reported back they’d like CV2 on VCD too, hope you guys don’t mind me spreading the goodness of Consolevania, I’m not making money or owt it’s all free, they just pay £20 P&P .... j/k

Just under 3hrs to go ‘till the download of CV2 is complete, can’t wait to see what it’s like.

Cheers guys

[JPickford (retired mod)]

I have the whole file (via ftp). Seeding now. And watching it...

[Pow]

It just stopped downloading, Completly.Like it had crashed.I'm using the bitorrent experimental client.I was using Torrent storm but i formatted my hard drive the other day and didn't get around to downloading it again.i just downloaded the first one i came accross when i knew Concolevania was out.

if it just crashed you should be able to continue if you load up the torrent again, the file bits don't normall get deleted.

[JPickford (retired mod)]

Okay I've watched it. Love the reviews - although the games are almost all Japanese and a touch on the obscure side.

Didn't like Legend (skipped it mostly).

Laughed a few times.

The volume is all over the shop. Legend bits are LOUD the reviews are quiet.

Good stuff.

[rob_quill]

Tell us more JP, what else is there apart from the reviews and Legend? Are the new cast members good? I'm sure I remember hearing that there were new cast members?

Rob

[JPickford (retired mod)]

Just the same two blokes.

Hitler going into a Game store made me chuckle.

A sketch with a rich & poor gamer was quite funny.

There are a few more forum quotes. Cacky being the funniest.

[Velse]

Anyone got an ftp link for this? Bittorrent doesn't work (uni connection)

[routeburn]

Anyone got an ftp link for this? Bittorrent doesn't work (uni connection)

if you've got a problem such as this where you absolutely cannot in any way use BitTorrent, please PM me and we'll sort something out.

[Graham S]

A load of people connected to my seed are about to get to 100% any minute now. If you could keep running your bittorrent client for a few days once your download has finished I'd be very grateful.

[Beertiger]

i've only got another 17 hours to wait! brilliant!

[Paradigm]

I think a lot of people must be downloading this without opening up the bandwidth. I'm only getting 20kb/sec, 30kb/sec has been my 'record' so far... I know some people are generously seeding but can other downloads PLEASE not leech...

[Velse]

Good news - Bittorrent, which has not worked since last academic year has burst into life. This is a good thing all round - I get to watch CV2, and you lot get to leech of a 10Mbit pipe

[edit]Thanks for the offer Tyagi!

Hope Uni Computing don't decide to cut me off for using such a vicious evil filesharing medium

[routeburn]

I am now seeing around 20 complete seed on the torrent. This is fantastic. Please keep your clients open and also ensure that you have not configured any artificial restrictions on the "upload" settings. Such settings will prevent you from contributing to the torrent. If you've got good reason for restricting (as some people have), fair enough.

Thanks to everyone for being helpful today, the torrent approach has been much more successful in getting Consolevania distributed for Episode 2. Next time should be even easier.

[Graham S]

Excellent. We've just gone from 3 seeds (me, JP, tyagi) to 20 seeds. Hang on in their fellas.

[JPickford (retired mod)]

I think a lot of people must be downloading this without opening up the bandwidth. I'm only getting 20kb/sec, 30kb/sec has been my 'record' so far... I know some people are generously seeding but can other downloads PLEASE not leech...

If I set upload speed to unlimited it uploads at about 30k(ish). But that KILLS download for me, even browsing. Limiting it to 16K seems fine. I'm on a 1meg NTL cable modem.

[Graham S]

On the subject of upload restrictions. I restrict my upload to 10K/s, a couple of K/s short of my upload maximum. This way bt doesn't completely swamp my connection, which means I can still use the web with no ill efffects. If anyone finds that leaving it seeding is buggering up everything else, then a sensibly limited upload is better than no seed at all.

[GamesMaster]

W00t! 5 mins to go I'm d/loading at 40kB/s & uploading at 30kb/s not bad for a freeserve connection I suppose

[The Liberal Elite]

If I set upload speed to unlimited it uploads at about 30k(ish). But that KILLS download for me, even browsing. Limiting it to 16K seems fine. I'm on a 1meg NTL cable modem.

yoinks - me too. I'm certain that there's some kind of thing in our T's & C's about being used as a server, though. Plus ll that shit about 1 gig a day cap. which scares me about downloading this, as I've been on live for a bit, and downloaded a demo or too.

I hate NTl.

[taiAtari]

I'm throttling my upload from 75 to 10 in a moment because I'm going to play Steel Battalion for a while and that really needs all the upload it can get. I'm almost at a share ratio of 2.7 now, so I'm think I'm forgiven. Will put it back up when I go to sleep and will keep seeding for a few days.

[Alex W.]

Well, it's been running all the time I've been out at work, and while it never ULs much above 15kbps or DLs much above 8kbps (512kbps cable so I can't expect a whole lot more), it's about a third done now. I should be watching it by the end of the week.

[Graham S]

I think layte100 says he's on NTL and uses bt a lot and has never had a problem, so I wouldn't worry too much Harvest.

Alex: are you sure you've "opened your ports"? I'd have thought with all these seeds you could expect better d/l speeds. There are a bunch of threads explaining what to do if you're new to all this bt bollocks.

[Sybernetix]

that was excellent, much better than the first! Was worried when i saw the hilter thing again but thatwas possibly the funnest part of the show. Couldn't believe you actually did that. It's wrong on so many levels yet so funny.

[Alex W.]

I added a couple of ports in BT's port range to the oddly named list of ports in Norton Internet Security Firewall... should I add more or do something else with Internet Security or what? Bear in mind that I'm connecting to the internet over a LAN through the PC with the firewall.