- Search removed; apparently getting quality search results is serious business
- Refund will work on all uncomplete torrents, no matter their percentage or number of seeds
- You can now add SHA1 hashes of torrents
- Price dropped to 0.001 BTC / GB
Topic: Bitfetch - Anonymous Remote Torrent Downloading - page 8. (Read 20554 times)
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ha, awesome... about 20 minutes before I submitted a job.
Thanks for a great great service, btw. It's pretty much perfect.
Thanks for a great great service, btw. It's pretty much perfect.
Mole is right, BF is damn near perfect.
Scrat deserves all the nice passive income it generates; thanks again for making such a nice, useful thing for us!
Scrat deserves all the nice passive income it generates; thanks again for making such a nice, useful thing for us!
Thank you both!
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Mole is right, BF is damn near perfect.
Scrat deserves all the nice passive income it generates; thanks again for making such a nice, useful thing for us!
Scrat deserves all the nice passive income it generates; thanks again for making such a nice, useful thing for us!
Dammit Bitcoin, where are you going?
Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.003 BTC.
Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.003 BTC.
ha, awesome... about 20 minutes before I submitted a job.
Thanks for a great great service, btw. It's pretty much perfect.
Dammit Bitcoin, where are you going?
Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.003 BTC.
Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.003 BTC.
ok, you're right regarding dropbox integration.
what about an api instead?
if often use your site from work to add new torrents, and i would love if my homeserver would download them after bitfetch has finished them (so i can use them as soon as i get home).
what about an api instead?
if often use your site from work to add new torrents, and i would love if my homeserver would download them after bitfetch has finished them (so i can use them as soon as i get home).
You can already do that. Click on Settings (top right) and enable Automatic Browser Downloads.
It will work on Chrome (up to 2 files, any more than that and it will popup 'This website is attempting to download multiple files. Allow? Yes/No' to which you click Yes) while Firefox/IE/Safari will require changing of the default download action in the browser settings.
my home server does not have an ui
but anyway: love your service
ok, you're right regarding dropbox integration.
what about an api instead?
if often use your site from work to add new torrents, and i would love if my homeserver would download them after bitfetch has finished them (so i can use them as soon as i get home).
what about an api instead?
if often use your site from work to add new torrents, and i would love if my homeserver would download them after bitfetch has finished them (so i can use them as soon as i get home).
You can already do that. Click on Settings (top right) and enable Automatic Browser Downloads.
It will work on Chrome (up to 2 files, any more than that and it will popup 'This website is attempting to download multiple files. Allow? Yes/No' to which you click Yes) while Firefox/IE/Safari will require changing of the default download action in the browser settings.
hello,
i just love your service
just two suggestions:
- dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
- dropbox: place completed files in dropbox
regards
flower
i just love your service
just two suggestions:
- dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
- dropbox: place completed files in dropbox
regards
flower
Thanks!
I think that Dropbox integration goes against the privacy oriented nature of this service. Dropbox API access is not open to everyone - you have to apply for it and get approved. I also don't see the point of watching a dropbox directory for .torrent files, since you can upload them to bitfetch just by clicking a button and they are typically <50kb anyway. Magnet links beat all other methods for convenience though, all it takes is a copy/paste.
I will definitely be adding multiple file upload support (ctrl + clicking multiple files) for browsers that support it.
ok, you're right regarding dropbox integration.
what about an api instead?
if often use your site from work to add new torrents, and i would love if my homeserver would download them after bitfetch has finished them (so i can use them as soon as i get home).
hello,
i just love your service
just two suggestions:
- dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
- dropbox: place completed files in dropbox
regards
flower
i just love your service
just two suggestions:
- dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
- dropbox: place completed files in dropbox
regards
flower
Thanks!
I think that Dropbox integration goes against the privacy oriented nature of this service. Dropbox API access is not open to everyone - you have to apply for it and get approved. I also don't see the point of watching a dropbox directory for .torrent files, since you can upload them to bitfetch just by clicking a button and they are typically <50kb anyway. Magnet links beat all other methods for convenience though, all it takes is a copy/paste.
I will definitely be adding multiple file upload support (ctrl + clicking multiple files) for browsers that support it.
hello,
i just love your service
just two suggestions:
- dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
- dropbox: place completed files in dropbox
regards
flower
i just love your service
just two suggestions:
- dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
- dropbox: place completed files in dropbox
regards
flower
Have you possibly considered hosting a torrent of the blockchain? I know that it has been done, but having someone to be a dedicated seeder would probably help a great deal.
I am seeding Jeff Garzik's blockchain torrent.
It is also available as a direct download here.
Did you know about burnbit.com?
It does the opposite of what Bitfetch does. It turns an http downloadable file into a torrent.
It's been useful to me a number of times when I needed to download a big file over an unreliable connection.
It does the opposite of what Bitfetch does. It turns an http downloadable file into a torrent.
It's been useful to me a number of times when I needed to download a big file over an unreliable connection.
I have seen it. Download managers generally do the trick of downloading big files over HTTP just fine. Corruptions are not an issue since everything is checksummed over noisy channels (ADSL, 3G, etc) and files are almost guaranteed to stay uncorrupted on my server (ECC, verification). SSL also adds an extra integrity check to each packet. My service is for people who can't or don't want to run a torrent client.
Did you know about burnbit.com?
It does the opposite of what Bitfetch does. It turns an http downloadable file into a torrent.
It's been useful to me a number of times when I needed to download a big file over an unreliable connection.
It does the opposite of what Bitfetch does. It turns an http downloadable file into a torrent.
It's been useful to me a number of times when I needed to download a big file over an unreliable connection.
Have you possibly considered hosting a torrent of the blockchain? I know that it has been done, but having someone to be a dedicated seeder would probably help a great deal.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Answers to emails I get a lot:
Connectivity & upload
The server is on a gigabit connection so your torrent will be downloaded at the highest possible speed. Each torrent has a 8 MB/s upload allowance with 20 upload slots. Slow or stalled torrents are the result of low or nonexistent amount of seeds.
Slow downloads from the US
This applies to browser downloads only. As a cost-cutting measure some US ISPs (Comcast, Verizon) will limit the throughput of transatlantic TCP connections. To get around this you can use a multithreaded download manager such as DownThemAll.
Ratio
Ratio is not guaranteed to be 1, in some cases it will be much higher or lower. It all depends on the amount of leechers on the network. Average ratio of all torrents ever downloaded is currently 1.569 (BT total bytes out / BT total bytes in). I am open to suggestions on how to handle ratio for people that use private trackers.
Connectivity & upload
The server is on a gigabit connection so your torrent will be downloaded at the highest possible speed. Each torrent has a 8 MB/s upload allowance with 20 upload slots. Slow or stalled torrents are the result of low or nonexistent amount of seeds.
Slow downloads from the US
This applies to browser downloads only. As a cost-cutting measure some US ISPs (Comcast, Verizon) will limit the throughput of transatlantic TCP connections. To get around this you can use a multithreaded download manager such as DownThemAll.
Ratio
Ratio is not guaranteed to be 1, in some cases it will be much higher or lower. It all depends on the amount of leechers on the network. Average ratio of all torrents ever downloaded is currently 1.569 (BT total bytes out / BT total bytes in). I am open to suggestions on how to handle ratio for people that use private trackers.
One is that on zipping a file, I changed my mind and wanted to download the files individually, but there wasn't a way to do this.
I guess I could add a cancel button which would kill the zip process, but this such a rare use case. It doesn't help that zipping is painfully slow and the reason for that is that I've limited it to 30 MB/s so that it doesn't hog down the entire server.
Another is that zip as an archive format has the index at the end, so there's no way with standard tools to access files in a partially downloaded zip while it's still downloading. If you offered tar as well, then, due to its streamy nature, customers would be able to access files in the tar file so far in their partially downloaded tar file.
This is a great idea. What other archive/compression formats keep their file list in the beginning and allow opening of partial files?
User experience means a lot to me, so if you're dissatisfied with my service in any way email me (or post in this thread) and I'll do my best to make it right.
Great. I've spent quite a few Bitcoins on it so far, and overall I'm satisfied. It's a good service. Thanks for the responses to the points I raised.
A couple of other nice-to-have things related to the zip functionality. One is that on zipping a file, I changed my mind and wanted to download the files individually, but there wasn't a way to do this. Another is that zip as an archive format has the index at the end, so there's no way with standard tools to access files in a partially downloaded zip while it's still downloading. If you offered tar as well, then, due to its streamy nature, customers would be able to access files in the tar file so far in their partially downloaded tar file.
Any chance of a way to choose to keep for longer than 10 days? Often go away for two weeks and a torrent may complete downloading while I'm away, and / or I don't have time to fully download it.
If you need a torrent to stay up longer drop me an email and I'll remove it's expiration date. I'm open to suggestions here.
If a torrent stalls at 75% and will never complete, is that just bad luck and the customer needs to accept they've lost a bit of bitcoin?
Certainly not. Email me and I'll refund it. I'll probably change the refund to work on all incomplete torrents.
User experience means a lot to me, so if you're dissatisfied with my service in any way email me (or post in this thread) and I'll do my best to make it right.
If a torrent stalls at 75% and will never complete, is that just bad luck and the customer needs to accept they've lost a bit of bitcoin?
Any chance of a way to choose to keep for longer than 10 days? Often go away for two weeks and a torrent may complete downloading while I'm away, and / or I don't have time to fully download it.
I wonder what ISPs are throttling. It doesn't seem like Cox does, they just forward the copyright violation "lawyers'" emails to all the addresses on your account.
Maybe some people are being throttled and they don't realize it, and would use Bitfetch if they knew.
Maybe some people are being throttled and they don't realize it, and would use Bitfetch if they knew.
Here are some popular ISPs that are throttling
USA: Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T
UK: BT, Virgin Media
Germany: DT
France: SFR
Full list
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