kafka Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Hello I am new to utorrent and torrent file downloads in general. Now when you are downloading something I believe you must stay online in order for it to complete. However a certain download takes a significantly long time to be completed and I have to keep the phone line open for important calls. So I was wondering is there a way to go offline and retain the downloaded progress, and then go back online and resume downloading the rest of the file? Any advice would be helpful and greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 The way Bittorrent works allows easy re-connection. In uTorrent you have two options which essentially work the same way. You can either close uT in the meantime, or leave it open. If you leave it open you can STOP the torrent (which will lose any partial pieces (found under Pieces tab)) or PAUSE the torrent (which won't lose any functionality while you are in offline mode).To understand a bit about the bittorrent protocol and torrenting in general perhaps you may want to read the second link on the Guides page (linked below). Any other questions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted January 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 No not right jewelishheaven. Thank you for your quick reply I truly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Also I infer from "keeping the line open" you do not have DSL and are stuck with dialup, for which I feel your pain I don't know how I would deal with dialup speeds again I just hope dialup will finally die off in the US ... but that would require ISPs actually allowing mainstream usage of fibre backbone :/ Maybe after Google gets their hands in the pot (of ISPs) next year with the trans-pacific cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipi Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 what will happen if say, you using a dial-up modem to download a torrent. all of a sudden someone picks up the phone, the connection cuts. will this corrupt the download, if so is there any way to prevent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 No it won't corrupt the download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 It is possible to PAUSE the download when you know/notice the line is in use for the phone... otherwise you can just continue downloading whenever you have data access for the phone line. That's the beauty of bittorrent no corruption, everything is byte-for-byte identical to the source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Also, if you ever doubt the status of a torrent's data (say after an improper shutdown due to a crash or blackout), just stop it, right-click and force a re-check, then restart. As simple as that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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