MObile torrents

[eezergood]

HOw long before we can download torrents to our mobile devices? Or can we do this already......

[monty]

Easy peasy.

There are several torrent clients for Android.

Found utorrent works pretty well on my tablet.

It did render the tablet so slow as almost useles during a heavily seeded torrent.

Download speeds same as on PC.

Just look in playstore...

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[monty]

Of course, best to only do while on wifi, you'd eat your 3G allowance.pretty fast!

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[eezergood]

SO in theory I can do via my Iphone?

[monty]

SO in theory I can do via my Iphone?

Guess so.

You'll just have to look for a torrent application in the apple app store...

[Tywais]

Far as I know, Apple doesn't allow bittorrent apps in their store. Most I've seen require a jailbreak iPhone.

Apple refuses to allow any torrent clients on the App Store

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/01/how-to-download-torrents-on-ios.html

[eezergood]

I actually was more wondering how long we can download a torrent to our mobile directly over the network e.g 4g etc.... sure cant be that far away

[Jiu-Jitsu]

Browser based solutions already available.

[Tywais]

Browser based solutions already available.

[eezergood]

Thats supercool - of course my battery & 3g would die after 1 episode of match of the day, but the fact is it can be done. Thanks guys

[AlfGarnett]

I use Utorrent on a HTC One X+, download probably 3 torrent movies a week straight onto my phone whilst at work. Then in the evening can connect via HDMI (MHL Connection ) to our 55inch Sony TV to watch said downloads at our leisure. I even download Tv series such as Game of Thrones , so sort of makes having True Visions a waste of money, especially when the torrents are available 2 weeks before HBO shows the episode here !

[eezergood]

THats cool, but now I use a bloody iphone!

[Digitalbanana]

My preferred way to save on mobile data charges using a mobile is to just save the torrent seed file on the mobile to my Dropbox share folder. Then when I get home my torrent has already downloaded to home PC, as the torrent client reads from the same Dropbox share folder and ready to watch.

[eezergood]

No idea how to do that, but the idiots in my condo block have blocked all torrents & wont allow me to get my own connection installed as yet!

[monty]

Also not sure how digital banana downloads a torrent straight into dropbox, but if that works it would solve your problems of torrents blocked in your condo, as then you are not downloading a torrent but a normal file from your dropbox!

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[eezergood]

If someone knows how to do this????

[Guest]

I guess there will be more torrent clients which download directly to the device when the Android boxes start to become standard as home media servers.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/649011-android-mini-pc-sticks-available-at-tukcom-pattaya-or-somewhere/#entry6543593

If the condo blocks torrents, then it's possible to use VPN, which tunnels the traffic and makes it impossible for the condo network to see what is inside the tunnel.

But then again, to use the whole condo bandwidth with torrents is not really nice. Maybe you can do a deal with some friend to pay for an upgrade of their network in exchange that you can download torrents to an external hard drive

The Dropbox trick mentioned by digitalbanana is normally used just to enable remote downloads for the torrents. Home PC torrent client polls the content of Dropbox/torrents/new directory where mobile phone can save torrent files. New torrent files are added automatically to downloads. I'm not sure if that works with magnet links?

If using Dropbox trick to download whole movie files to the dropbox directory, the client which is doing the download, need to have an unblocked connection to the internet. Then there might be problems with the syncing of the not yet finished files.

[eezergood]

Will try VPN - am happy to download through the night when t

Any recomendations for a free VPN?

[lomatopo]

You could also get a local seedbox, then just FTP completed files down from that.

[Jiu-Jitsu]

www.zbigz.com is but one example. They download the Torrent and convert it into a Direct link for you to download wherever you can sign in via a Browser.

[Digitalbanana]

I use uTorrent client on a home PC. Under settings-directories one can select folders from where the torrent client can automatically read a torrent file from.

So if you use a cloud folder (such as Dropbox) and drop torrent files into the folder from any device or mobile device, then the torrent client on the home PC will automatically start downloading the torrent to your download folder (which could also be on a cloud or not). Useful sometimes, but I hardly ever do it nor have a need for mobile torrenting! Google Dropbox and torrent and it will give more details.

[DaveBKK]

Use a seedbox, and you won't hog bandwidth due to upload/sharing. Zbigz mentioned earlier is a good example. Also Put.io. They will share back out for a 1/1 ratio...and even can stream it to your phone/tablet from the put.io site.....they have servers in Japan and Sngapore I believe.

[eTiMaGo]

Another option is filesfarm.com. It's a local site, just opened, but with very fast speeds for local torrents...