If you are the first seeder of a new torrent, make sure you dedicate as much bandwith as possible to upload this torrent. The bandwith for a new torrent should be at least 20kb/s, the more the better of course. Stop other uploads if needed. Especially when uploading big torrent, make sure you have enough bandwidth to seed at least one full copy in a decent time. It does not make sens to seed a 1GB file on a 56k connection as it would take forever to spread the file!

When I try to download a .torrent file, why does my Macintosh get a file named "www.dimeadozen.org" instead? Then my client won't open it, because its name doesn't end in ".torrent".

Check the placement of the shared files. They must be in bt-clent's incoming folder with all other downloaded files.

If for some reason (e.g. pc crash or a frozen client) your client exits improperly and you restart it, it will have a new peer_id, so it will show as a new torrent. The old one will never receive a "event=completed"or "event=stopped" and will be listed until some tracker timeout. Just ignore it, it will eventually go away.

When a file is first released, no one will have any parts of the file. The user that created the torrent (or someone else that has the complete file) will seed the file by running their bit torrent client, "downloading" to the location of the complete file. They are added to the tracker's list, and all the clients start to download from the seeder.

I suggest you should seed as much as possible, however, if you can't, you must seed at least 36 hours or until that torrent's ratio is bigger than 0.90, otherwise you will loose 3GB of your uploaded!

Quia strives to work well with as little bandwidth as possible. However, for optimal performance, we recommend that you allow 30-80 Kbps (kilobits per second) of bandwidth for each simultaneous Quia user at your site.

You can never have enough! The same advice people give for PC processor speed can be given for bandwidth: buy as much as you can reasonably afford, since nobody ever has "too much" bandwidth. One of the main factors though, is price.

Bandwidth is the key to ensuring that your website is visible to all your visitors. Whenever someone visits your site, data (text, images) flows from our extremely powerful web servers to your visitor's computer. Your bandwidth is the total of all data requested by all your visitors. The larger the files on your website and the more visitors you have, the more bandwidth you need. SiteXpress packages start at 250mb of bandwidth per month.