nerdica.com — An article detailing the complete walk through of building a dedicated, headless BitTorrent client computer. Using Ubuntu, Azureus, Hamachi, and Samba, you'll be able to build a box capable of downloading BitTorrents and sharing the files complete ease. There's even extra steps to show you how to save them directly to an external USB hard drive!
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reyalpJul 1, 2007
That's only $5 cheaper, plus I get 120 day retention from Giganews.
gavincatoJul 1, 2007
azureus is great because it can auto watch a directory for torrent files so you can just ftp .torrent files to the dedicated BT box. On my mac I have a automator action so I can just right click on a torrent file and select "send to torrrent server" and it automatically loads up transmit, ftp's it to the server, and then deletes it locally. couldn't be simpler. the torrent server then kicks it off with no interaction needed from me.who cares if it is memory hungry, ram is cheap
felshadowJul 1, 2007
My router splits my connections evenly (nobody can go into each others alloted bandwidth) , so having separate BT box would mean no lag for gaming on my normal computer, which is another good reason :P
flickmasterJul 2, 2007
Try sabnzbd for a usenetbox, it's awesome. Just plop a nzb file in a directory, or use the web interface. There is even a greasemonkey script out there for firefox that will automatically send nzbs to your sabnzbd server with one click on the nzb site. Works extremely well with newzbin.
reyalpJul 2, 2007
put together an 8TB volume without using RAID, then.
blackcowJul 2, 2007
Threw out an old computer! Thats horrible, there are lots of things you can do with old computers. I have one built into a shelf that plays music.
matcramJul 2, 2007
By the way utorrent has a webinterface that works nicely with wine. Best interface i've seen between torrentflux, azureus......
Closed AccountJul 4, 2007
Why would you need an 8TB volume? Unless your dealing with huge files (over 250GB each, say), you don't need all the drives as one - if you do, you either run the risk of one drive destroying all the data, or have to buy twice the amount of drives to mirror everything..Then again, if I was dealing with terabyte-sized files, I'd probably have the budget to have RAID1+0 drives..
supariousDec 21, 2007
Also, using an additional router specifically for your torrent box-only will reduce some latency with your internet connection. Most often, residential-grade routers exceed their connection limits, causing your internet to appear intermittantly down (if you don't know how to adjust your torrent options).
supariousDec 21, 2007
torrentflux-b4rt is a superb web-based torrent manager. On my UltraSPARCIIe Ubuntu-Server 7.10 box, the page refresh (set to AJAX @ 1s) can take upto 50% cpu (/usr/sbin/apache2)!
avi17Jan 10, 2008
There really is no such thing as Usenet