SoftwareSimian Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 The magnet link for the torrent download of Aslain's WoT ModPack v1.9.1.1 #04 is incorrect, it downloads a WoWs modpack. Quote Link to comment
Administrator Aslain Posted June 21, 2020 Administrator Share Posted June 21, 2020 Should have be ok now. Quote Link to comment
SoftwareSimian Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Magnet link has been corrected, yes. But it's hard to be the first downloader without a .torrent file, have to wait a long time before the single seeder decides to share the hash structure (been sitting here 5 mins already). Still looking forward to the time when you can publish .torrent links instead of (or in addition to) magnet links. edit: it took 11 minutes before the single seed hasn't handed out the hash structure to any of us, by then there were 11 peers waiting to download. Once the hash structure goes out to someone then it works fine. Edited June 21, 2020 by SoftwareSimian Quote Link to comment
Administrator Aslain Posted June 21, 2020 Administrator Share Posted June 21, 2020 Try this and let me know : Aslains_WoT_Modpack_Installer_v.1.9.1.1_04.exe.torrent There are http links, they should act like seeds, not sure what went wrong. Quote Link to comment
SoftwareSimian Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Aslain said: Try this and let me know : Aslains_WoT_Modpack_Installer_v.1.9.1.1_04.exe.torrent There are http links, they should act like seeds, not sure what went wrong. Your .torrent file works fine as expected. Magnet links only contain the hash of the entire file (02446cc876eb11e758663b290c22b442a1deee70) in this case. It does not contain the breakdown of the 1189 pieces in the file or the piece hashes. The entire-file hash is sufficient for the torrent client to contact another torrent client who does have the .torrent file (initially this would be only the first seed) and ask for a copy of the .torrent data. Once it has that it can start downloading pieces of the file, but not before. Even if there are webseeds listed in the magnet link, they are of no use until the full .torrent data is available, because the client has no idea what how many pieces and what size are supposed to be in the torrent (so it can't ask the webseed for a specific chunk of the file), and no way to verify individual chunks. So magnet links do work, but .torrent files work much better. Quote Link to comment
Administrator Aslain Posted June 21, 2020 Administrator Share Posted June 21, 2020 Maybe I will use torrent files then. Quote Link to comment
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