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What is the correct thread where I can ask about the problems and questions I have in using torrent? My download speed is now 0 to 0.1.

Firon, I'm still baffled about torrent. I downloaded about 4GB of music (string quartets) with no problem at good speed. At this point, not knowing that I was to save the torrent files for upload, I deleted them. Then I started downloading Bach Cantatas from http://www.kickasstorrents.com/search/bach-cantatas-flac/ One volume came through with no trouble (BWV 10-12). Three stopped at 99.5%, .7%, .1%. The speed gradually got slower. Then I started talking on this forum. Two days later I tried again. .7% increased to 94.6%, .1% to 82.6%. The five zeros were still zero. I started a new one (BVW 1-3). It went at 1kB/s sometimes higher but completed. Three downloads are stuck at .995, .826, .946. They've uploaded that much. I started BVW 22-25. http://www.kickasstorrents.com/bach-sacred-cantatas-bwv-22-25-leonhardt-harnoncourt-vol-2-cd-2-flac-t1507870.html It's downloading at .7kB/s. Avail started at 1.676 went down to .070 is now at .960. Is the typical? Am I being penalized for deleting the torrents? Can I do anything? I want to download most of http://www.kickasstorrents.com/search/bach-cantatas-flac/. How can I tell whether these are really available? Why are they listed if they are not? Is there anything I can do? Or will they gradually become available?

Thanks. Yep, today a seeder showed up for a .007 avail file which increased it to .819. I have two others at .995 and .946. I just wait and see what happens. I got another torrent of 1.407 avail. While I'm downloading and can see it is going right back out. But being a newbie, I don't understand the system yet. So when I google for something, I have to try all torrents listed? They aren't the same? There isn't a common directory? Or should I be searching another way?

Firon, how do I find better torrents? Do I have to abandon these .995 torrents or will the final pieces become available? Do I have to find which swarm has it or does my request gradually propagate through the system?

1. I am a newbie with BitTorrent. 2. I installed it on my Win7 Gateway laptop. 3. I ran it without any further configuration except target directories. 4. I found some big Shostakovich, Tschaikovsky and Dvorak torrents and downloaded them with no problems and reasonable speeds (~60kB/s). 5. I found 11 CDs of Bach Cantatas and added them. 6. One has downloaded. 7. Another is downloading at 1.2kB/s. (It has been as high as 60kB/s). 8. 4 have avail = .995,.924,.007,.001. They stopped downloading there. 9. 5 have avail = 0. No downloading. 10. I read some of the documentation. 11. Is the slow speed because because of the source. 12. Can I do something to make those 9 avail? Change the swarm I'm in? Thank you.