Playonline : FFXI General Discussions

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. ><

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.

bittorrent? Azureus? just google pol disk/download?

could you give me a link?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

.iso??? - .torrent more likely.

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

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)

well i cheat

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^^.

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