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28. September 2011, 03:26:16

fefrie

Posts: 392

Torrenting and Opera?

Do I research correct in the fact that opera 11.5x will not work with common torrents found on the 'bad' filesharing websites for TV Shows and Movies? If so, then what is the torrent client good for?

28. September 2011, 05:55:45

sgunhouse

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I use it to download Linux DVDs, and it works fine for that. I know of no reason it wouldn't work on ... other sites, but I haven't used it for that.

28. September 2011, 06:47:48

Swapnil99pro

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Originally posted by sgunhouse:

I know of no reason it wouldn't work on

I agree that Opera's BitTorrent client works on popular non-illegal/non-piracy websites but Opera's BitTorrent does not support Automatic Port Mapping and I have to go Utorrent, see the port and then enter it in Opera's BitTorrent client which makes it useless.

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29. September 2011, 08:02:32

Raztro

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Opera's torrent and IRC integrations are pretty much useless. I would use a dedicated client for these services.

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29. September 2011, 08:23:47

fefrie

Posts: 392

That is too bad. I remember earlier versions of opera (9.X, 10.x) were able to do it. It was a nice light alternative for light duty torrenting on base laptops that I had.

I wish that they brought it back.

28. October 2011, 08:09:11

hucker

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Probably some copyright [expletive]s that told Opera not to.....

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28. October 2011, 09:31:09

BtEO

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Several 'bad sites' have switched to (more bandwidth efficient) UDP only trackers, which Opera doesn't support I believe. Furthermore, Opera also doesn't support DHT for trackerless torrents. Also a surprising number of those torrents still list many trackers that no longer exist — such as The Pirate Bay's trackers, closed nearly two years ago.

Those are far more likely to be the reasons. Check the torrents that are failing and see what tracker URIs are listed, I suspect you'll find many starting with udp:// or ones that no longer exist. If Opera can't get at least one http-based tracker it's not going to download a thing.

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28. October 2011, 09:46:58

hucker

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Originally posted by BtEO:

Also a surprising number of those torrents still list many trackers that no longer exist — such as The Pirate Bay's trackers, closed nearly two years ago.

The pirate bay isn't closed....

I'll just use utorrent, it works with no user intervention! Looks like Opera have some work to do....

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28. October 2011, 12:54:32

BtEO

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Their trackers are.

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