Torrents keep sticking at 99.9% and waste bandwidth

parasonic · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 179

I have been using btdownloadgui.py to download torrents. They're usually pretty small with an occasional ISO like whenever FreeBSD releases come out. My torrents keep sticking at 99.9% and I have to close and restart them before they will re-download the segment properly. It's eating up my bandwidth; for instance, a few days ago, I opened a 50MB torrent, and after a day, I had downloaded 8GB. Ridiculous. Is this an issue with amd64 python + bydownloadgui.py or something else? Thanks.

R!tman · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

Are you using bittorrent (the program, not the network)? Maybe try bittornado, mldonkey or azureus. As you seem to prefer commandline, I would recommend bittornado with the -X use flag.

parasonic · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 179

I think that the btwhatever.py scripts are BitTornado.

crazycat · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

Check ctorrent. It's a small command line bittorrent client written in c.