Playonline : FFXI General Discussions

Posted: July 15th, 2006, 1:31 pm

locoroco
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ok my comp was getting kinda slow so my dad brought it to a repair shop. 3 days later it came back all of my stuff was gone including POL!!! my disks are at my friends house... prolly destroyed. any way to download pol, FFXI, and all 3 expansions?... then the neverending update. ><

Posted: July 15th, 2006, 1:50 pm

pyrolol

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I point you towards bittorrent. Get the client (Azureus is good), and then search google for torrent search engines.

The download will not be fast though - getting the original disks back is preferable.

Posted: July 15th, 2006, 2:16 pm

locoroco
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bittorrent? Azureus? just google pol disk/download?

Posted: July 15th, 2006, 2:20 pm

locoroco
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could you give me a link?

Posted: July 15th, 2006, 2:48 pm

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Azureus:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

Torrent Search Engines:
http://www.isohunt.com/
http://www.torrentspy.com/
http://www.mininova.org/

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Posted: July 15th, 2006, 2:55 pm

locoroco
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um... whats the stuff do?^^ im kind of a !@#$%^&* about technology

Posted: July 16th, 2006, 6:06 am

pyrolol

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It's a peer to peer file sharing program, designed for speed and efficiency with very large files.

Azureus is (one of many) clients, a program you run that downloads the stuff.

The torrent search engines search for .torrent files, which contain the information Azureus needs to download the files you want. Basically you just open up the torrent in Azureus, and start it and let it download.

Posted: July 23rd, 2006, 11:07 am

locoroco
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ok i have the torrent for pol. how do i get Azureus to run it?

Posted: July 23rd, 2006, 1:56 pm

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Chances are that it is a ISO file which you will need a program like PowerISO to laod

Posted: July 24th, 2006, 4:43 am

pyrolol

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.iso??? - .torrent more likely.

Posted: July 24th, 2006, 5:29 am

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DeepBurner is a GREAT emulater for .iso I used it to load the expansion packs since i do not have a dvd rom.

Posted: July 24th, 2006, 5:33 am

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Hes right that it might be an ISO file. Its still a torrent of course, but thats just the protocol for file transfer that it uses. A torrent file is just a file linking you to the stream of other users sharing the file.

Your download speed will be determined by how many users are online sharing the file, and most torrent downloading clients give you faster or better download connections if you are sharing more files, so its a good idea to share your other torrents. (I think you gotta make them torrent/hash files first - its not like gnutella/limewire)

Posted: July 24th, 2006, 5:41 am

pyrolol

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well i cheat :-P

I share loads and loads of files no-one else knows exist, and i edited the data files for the client to say that, I have really uploaded many gigs of stuff, when ive actually uploaded practically nothing.

Worth doing^^.

Posted: July 24th, 2006, 9:54 am

locoroco
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ok utorrent is loading it and it is an iso. but ive left it on for a day and its still at 0.0%? i downloaded age of empires II to test it out and it worked, but FFXI file wont. both iso