How to send a private torrent...

[CrazeD]

Me and a clanmate of mine want to make a clan movie in BF2 using Fraps. We're each going to film a part and then edit it into one movie. I'll be doing the editing, but that means he has to send me a HUGE amount of files, since Fraps takes a megaload of space. Upwards of 80+GB probably.

We figure a torrent would be the fastest thing. I know you can create torrents with uTorrent, but it wants a tracker. Is there a way to just connect to his PC and download off him with a bittorrent?

Any other ideas to send huge amounts of data as quickly as possible would be good too.

Thanks.

[peterhuang913]

You need to find a tracker to put the torrent on.

[Mak213]

You need a tracker. Even a private tracker will still show the file up for the members of the site. So no matter what you will be limited to what ever tracker service you use.

Also know this. 80+GB of data wont be easy to transfer. It will be limited by the persons upload rate. So if they can only upload 768Kb/s it will still take you forver and a day to download it cause the limit of torrents is the upload spped of the seeder.

You best bet. Get a External Drive. There is no way to direct connect to a PC thru a torrent. Get a drive and ship to/from each other. Only real way to move that much data. By the time you ship it to them would be less than the time it would take to upload/transfer all that data to them.

[superdave1984]

I wonder if a VPN connection between the two would get the job done? Then just share the folders. Not sure if it would work though, but it might be worth looking into.

[Mak213]

VPN would still be limited by the upload spped of the persona sharing. Since it is still over the internet.

[CrazeD]

Well he's got 7MBPS up so that shouldn't be a problem.

[Mak213]

7MB/s up and trying to transfer 80+GB. Lets see that is over 80,000MB at 7MB/s. That is just over 190 hours of upload time at the max which never happens. So unless he can use his full upload of 7MB/s for 8 days straight you will have issues. Cause that is how long it will take to jsut transfer the file.

[peterhuang913]

Originally Posted by Makaveli213

7MB/s up and trying to transfer 80+GB. Lets see that is over 80,000MB at 7MB/s. That is just over 190 hours of upload time at the max which never happens. So unless he can use his full upload of 7MB/s for 8 days straight you will have issues. Cause that is how long it will take to jsut transfer the file.

It should be 7Mbit <small b.

[Mak213]

Sorry. Then my calculations are even further off. Which means you are loking at doulbe or triple that time. If not more. So yeah it will take you over a month to get the file downloaded. When you can just ship the dang external, even overseas, and have it there and back within 10 days.

[peterhuang913]

Originally Posted by Makaveli213

Sorry. Then my calculations are even further off. Which means you are loking at doulbe or triple that time. If not more. So yeah it will take you over a month to get the file downloaded. When you can just ship the dang external, even overseas, and have it there and back within 10 days.

Again, wrong. Byte=8 bit, not double or triple, but 8x.