Bittorrent

This week my Internet connection was shaped to 64k during on-peak times.  This means that from 12:00 PM until 2:00 AM I can't really download anything without it causing a major headache.  This led me to wonder if I could set up the bittorrent client that comes with Ubuntu to automatically execute only during the off-peak times (from 2:00 AM until 12:00 PM) in a fairly intuitive manner.  I don't want my torrent downloads slowing down my on-peak net usage!  I've figured it out and the following describes how I achieved it.

To begin create a new Directory in your home directory called 'torrents'.  To do this from the terminal type:

Perhaps the greatest virtue of Linux is its command line.  You can do so much at the command line in Linux and downloading files via torrents is no different.  With the small terminal application bittorrent you can download your files while using minimum system resources.

To install the bittorrent application type sudo apt-get install bittorrent at the command line.  Simple (Debian based distros only such as Ubuntu)

To use this appliation start up your terminal and simply type btdownloadcurses url of torrent file. The url can be either web based or a downloaded torrent file on your local computer.  This will then download the file associated with the torrent into the directory that you called the application from.