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By: Download Torrent as Direct Links Through Btaccel.com - TechEnclave

Download Torrent as Direct Links Through Btaccel.com - TechEnclave — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:04 +0000

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Easily Download The O.C Episodes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:54:37 +0000

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By: SAEED

SAEED — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:32:51 +0000

I tried to download some files but it still 0% . I thought at the beginning that their something wrong with torrents files however they all are healthy with lots of seeds, could anyone telling me the reason why.

By: Jalley

Jalley — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:11:06 +0000

My first attempt at this using this service went remarkably smoothly. I entered the url of a popular 700+ MB title and was downloading the file within minutes. It was incredibly easy. However, the file (possibly due to it’s popularity) was still in btaccel’s cache from another user, which meant that it was available for immediate download. That isn’t the case for every torrent, obviously.

By: Elan Zovar

Elan Zovar — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:27:08 +0000

It is said that at this point (alpha testing) btaccel does not seed, which in the spirit of BitTorrent is a no-no.

Also, you will be blocked from using certain trackers and have limits on others, like Demonoid.

All-in-all, I love the idea and the service and say thanks for spreading the word, which hopefully will help people who get wrongly harassed over trying to use BT when it’s clearly the best option for big file transfer.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:13:03 +0000

Thanks a lot Tim.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:38:23 +0000

After a week of being totally useless, see above this seems to be coming back to useful, managed 4 hours of tv today.

By: benry

benry — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:51:16 +0000

Well, having used this service for about a week now, I feel like I can safely say that it sucks.

Yes, I know it’s alpha right now. But it just doesn’t work. It doesn’t suck in a alpha-sort of way, it’s just one big epic fail.

I tried over a dozen torrents from various sites. The only thing I got to work was a completely unnecessary Ubuntu torrent (which I correctly assumed would already be avialable) that I only loaded to satisfy my curiosity as to whether Btaccel worked at all.

Thanks for the invite, but I’m done. Great concept, but not even close in implementation.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:09:46 +0000

Thanks for the article and feedback. Tim did send us a lot of traffic and helped us find yet another couple of ways that we can break our server. For that we are grateful. For the bad experiences some of you had we are embarrassed.

Regarding the % dropping back down to less than what it was before, that was caused by a failed hard drive which took all of those torrents with it. We are “skimping” on quality drives to keep the costs down.

Regarding the 99% torrents that are stuck at 99% forever. We have noticed that some torrents just don’t complete. Have not been able to find a reason so far. For now, if a torrent does not complete within 72 hours we remove it from the queue.

Cheers and please email me at tom AT btaccel DOT com if there is anything I can help with.

Tom

By: Hackberd

Hackberd — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:43:09 +0000

I’ve been using this service for a week or so now, and the only thing i got to say is: awesome!
Bittorrent used to cripple my home network to an unusable state. For that reason i switched to usenet.
Now i just add my torrents there, wait some time and download them at high speed. I would even pay for this service. Thanks for the invite!

By: JayC

JayC — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:05:10 +0000

I really love this service – it’s not 100% reliable, but there’s a reason it says in “alpha” red letters, isn’t it?

Anyway, great stuff!

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By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:30:34 +0000

Woo, thanks. Happy I got in. Looks like it will be useful.

By: Philly cheesesteak

Philly cheesesteak — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:55:20 +0000

My 99% downloads are finally done…. but this is still an unreliable site. My downloads constantly get reset back to 0% or when am lucky, they fall from 20% to 14% and stay there.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:08:53 +0000

What is the point reviewing sites that just don’t do what they say they can?

By: Yonathan

Yonathan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:05:39 +0000

There is the email…

By: BullDozer

BullDozer — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:57:03 +0000

They are having some trouble lately with the servers so just give them some time. I have downloaded nearly 100 GB from their site till now and I like it.

By: Yonathan

Yonathan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:54:04 +0000

I’ve lost my password to their site and I’m still waiting for the password reset email…
Also, I put a torrent of 350MB more than 24 hours ago and it doesn’t make any progress.

I guess we’ll have to wait until they fix all their bugs and change it to beta, or even better, final release.

By: Yonathan

Yonathan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:50:02 +0000

Why do people mention where their thanks comes from?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:58:18 +0000

Useless stuck at 99% then overnight to 0% slow and unable to do the job. You have no right recommending this rubbish.

By: Utha

Utha — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:45:50 +0000

Thanks m8
from brazil

By: philly cheesesteak

philly cheesesteak — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:48:03 +0000

I gave this a try yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised at how fast it was…. i then went to bed, leaving my download at around 60% complete. i woke up to find my download back at 0% this morning… I thought maybe this was a one off, so i gave it a try, this time, downloading 2 smaller files.

Well, they have both been at 99% for over 3 hours now. So all i can say is, so far, it has not exactly done what its supposed to do. but still holds a lot of promise.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:02 +0000

Yep done that, maybe just give them sometime to get over the traffic.

By: Tim Watson

Tim Watson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:43:19 +0000

BTaccel plucks the file from the Torrent network, so you’re not downloading it directly, thus your IP is known only to BTaccel. Also it’s not necessary to have your browser open to get the file from the swarm. You can come back to the page after so much time and the file should be there.

By: Tim Watson

Tim Watson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:41:27 +0000

Could be a temporary issue with BTaccel. I'm sure that it's getting a lot of traffic from this review. Might want to get in touch with the developer @btaccel on Twitter or at this Feedback link.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:37:34 +0000

The download torrent page for my a/c has not downloaded anything for 4 hours now, just stuck on 0% and nothing going on.

By: Tim Watson

Tim Watson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:30:41 +0000

I’m sorry. What exactly is not working?

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:26:45 +0000

It does not work.

By: Woops

Woops — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:34:03 +0000

Seems like a nice tool. However it all depends on the free account bandwitch… and whether or not there may be additional restrictions.
Anyway i have tested Bitlet, the previously mentioned toorentrelay, fileswire, instanttorrents and torrentdrive by imageshack, and i remark that this service apparently dont requires java (bitlet and others does) and i may have to test if the download speed are good (versus torrentdrive wich in my opinion is terrible slow, at least fot the last time i tested it).
Apart from that its nice to be able to browse the torrent sites with a integrated proxy, ideal for avoiding the increasing ip recording hassles.

By: Speed

Speed — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:30:16 +0000

Thanks for the free invites!