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1. 1 3 The Ten Foot BitTorrent Client Recorded media needs very large files Downloading these files needs a different technology to a simple web site and that s what BitTorrent was invented for Instead of downloading the file from a central server people cooperate online to send pieces of the file to each other It s like working with dozens of servers simultaneously BitTorrent is used to deliver a variety of media to your PC including films TV albums and games Our BitTorrent BT client starts working when you 1 Click a link to a torrent file or 2 Download the torrent file to a monitored folder for example the CITA RSS Aggregator can monitor feeds for you and automatically download torrent files to your PC Our BT client manages the download for you ensuring your Internet connection does not get clogged up It also cooperates with other people downloading the same file so you are uploading and downloading simultaneously You decide how many downloads you want to run simultaneously The BT client downloads the data for you and keeps you informed of progress A small file that describes to the BitTorrent client the file s to be downloaded and where to find them BitTorrent works because people cooperate The BT client helps you play your part by keeping your connection going until you have met your sharing criteria We suggest you upload at least as much data as you download Writing BT software from scratch is a major und
2. You will probably visit some pages time and time again To save you time you can keep a list of favourites so you can go straight to them without having to enter the address each time When you are showing a page that you want to add to your list of favourites click Favourites on the menu to see a window like this Show Show favorites by favorites by title URL Click the Yellow button to add the page to your favourites To return to one of your favourite pages go to the above window and click the Red or Green button They display your favourites in a simple web page The page also includes a link to your home page The Red button lists them by page name the Green button lists them by page address The favourites page looks like this IT Advice Your home page Radio Times 350 channels 14 days http www radiotimes com Your favorites BBC bbc co uk homepage Home of the BBC on the Internet http www bbc co uk Delete this favourite Constructive IT Advice http www SeeITA com Delete this favorite Google http www google com Delete this favourite Use Skip to go to the favourite you want and press OK or use the remote mouse to click the one you want Note that under each favourite there is a Delete this favourite link Click this link to remove the previous link from your favourites list You can also use the favourites window to delete favourites you n
3. If you don t you might flood your line with upload data In this situation it becomes difficult to make requests for data so your download rate will suffer You will also notice poor response times when using the Internet for other purposes such as web browsing Changing this value takes effect immediately BitTorrent Port Number See page 36 for more information about ports The standard BitTorrent ports start at 6881 We strongly advise you to not use the standard ports however That s because some internet providers block them as a matter of course You are likely to experience poor download rates using these ports Worse some members of the BitTorrent community regard use of the standard ports as a sign that you do not know what you are doing and will simply refuse to allow you to connect We suggest you keep to the default port number 58261 unless you have a good reason to change it For example if you want several PCs in a network to run BitTorrents you will probably have to assign individual port numbers to each one We suggest you simply increment the default port number 58261 to get new numbers Changing this value takes effect the next time you restart the client Use Universal Plug n Play and Remove UPnP connection at end Universal Plug n Play UPnP is a standard protocol that allows the BT Client to communicate with your router The client can find your router and make sure the BitTorrent port
4. clicking the arrows with a mouse Minimises the browser to the toolbar Gives you access to the toolbar Closes down the menu returning you to the web page 2 4 Working with Browser windows In the sections that follow we describe various Browser features that use windows displayed via buttons on your remote or the Browser menu All these pages work in the same way e Each page displays coloured buttons The colour corresponds with the teletext buttons if you have them on your remote To click a button press the appropriate colour button Alternatively use one of these methods Use the Skip and Replay buttons or Tab and Back Tab keys to select a button and press OK or Enter Click the button with your mouse Press OK or Enter to click the default button usually the Green one e To cancel a window press either the Back or Clear button or the Backspace or Escape key e To display help for a window press the More button or F1 key Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 2 5 Entering web Entering web page addresses via a remote control is tedious There s no way around it You have just a few buttons to generate alphabetic characters numbers and all the punctuation that you need in a web address We have therefore designed a system that reduces the number of buttons you need to press to generate a new web page address to a minimum If you think we ve missed a trick though please let us know We d be
5. e Press OK Enter to list Emails waiting for you e Press Up Down and Page up Page down to select an Email in the list e Press Left Right or Yellow to mark unmark an Email for deletion press OK Enter to see the Email e Press Up Down and Page up Page down to read your Email press More F1 to find out about text Zoom and word wrap options e Press Backto return to the Email list when reading an Email e Press Back to return to the list of Email accounts from the list of Emails deleting any marked Emails on the way Press More F1 at any screen to see more information For more information about using the Email reader see page 34 1 5 The Ten Foot Launcher The Launcher sits in the background on your Media Centre PC watching the remote buttons you are using If it sees you enter a hot button twice in quick succession it will wake up and ask you what program you want to run 1 5 1 Launcher features This method of launching means you can e Use the Launcher to run programs with any media centre software not just the Microsoft one e Use the Launcher to run programs even if you don t have any media centre software e Get to programs faster if you use Microsoft MCE you no longer have to navigate to the home page select More programs and then select the program you want to run e Launch any program you like not just the Ten Foot Products using your remote 1 5 2 Launcher quick start The Launcher runs automatically each time y
6. to operate the products They also work well with remote mice and keyboards All the remote buttons are defined through the product settings files so you can e Change button assignments and e Reconfigure the products to use different remotes We also make good use of remotes that implement the teletext colour buttons You can also use the settings files to e Modify the way the products work and e Change the text displayed by the products We provide more information in the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide If people log on with different ids each person can maintain their own separate preferences The products are designed so they can be used in multi user environments and in security regimes where not all users are systems administrators 1 2 The Ten Foot Browser The Browser displays web pages for you The Browser is based on Internet Explorer You therefore get a highly functional browser capable of displaying just about any web site in existence If that s not the browser you normally use you can still use another browser as your default 1 2 1 Browser features The Browser e Uses the entire screen to display web pages e Allows you to zoom in to see details on web pages and out to see the whole page e Shows menus buttons and text using large text and high contrast colours making them easy to see from the comfort of your chair e Allows you to get to web pages easily you can Gostraight to a home pag
7. BitTorrent client screen e Overriding the default behaviour e Tuning the BT client e Why downloads might be slow e Using control files to schedule BT client activity e Running alongside other BT clients e Running with an RSS Aggregator You can get more information from the online help press your More button or F1 or the CITA web site at www SeelTA com TF BTCSupport shtml 3 1 BitTorrent overview Traditionally files are downloaded directly from a web site That works well for small files like those associated with a web site Media files like CDs TV programmes and Films are very large however The cost of delivering very large files to a significant number of users at reasonable throughput rates is an expensive business BitTorrent takes a different approach It starts with a small torrent file that you download from a server The torrent file contains control information that describes the file to be downloaded and where to find it on the Internet A BT client can read the torrent file and use it to download the file it refers to It does this by finding people that have copies of some or all of the file who are willing to share it with you The BT client downloads pieces of from each person it finds The overhead on each person is low but because the client downloads data from several people simultaneously you can see very fast download speeds but see page 54 for reasons why this isn t always the case Once you have d
8. Internet http www bbc co uk Delete this entry BBC Sport Player Live ODI Australia v England http news bbc co uk player sol newsid 6160000 newsid 61t bw bb amp mp wm Delete this entry BBC SPORT Cricket England Live Australia v England http news bbc co uk sport1 hi cricket england 6350181 stm Delete this entry BBC SPORT Cricket http news bbc co uk sport1 hi cricket default stm Delete this entry Use Skip to go to the favourite you want and press OK or use the remote mouse to click the one you want Note that under each entry there is a Delete this entry link Click this link to remove the entry from your history You can also use the history window to delete past pages you no longer need Click the Blue Trim button to display this window January 2007 Delete history prior to this date Click the Yellow button to delete all your history Alternatively use up down left and right to set a date in the top box by default the Browser suggests deleting all history more than two weeks old Then click the green button or press OK Enter twice to confirm your deletion 2 10 Working with popups Some web pages try to display pages in a new window This can be for legitimate reasons but is often a way of displaying annoying popup advertisements The Browser prevents pages from displaying in a new window Instead it shows the message Popup denied followed by t
9. at the right folder run the Paste command to make the transfer T e To rename a file folder or favourite highlight the item you want to rename and run the Rename command You will then see this window Archivel OBR RN A ghi4 7 pars Cancel The file or folder s name appears in the white box at the top of the screen You can enter text using the usual triple tap mechanism Page and Page change the characters available so you can enter upper case text and punctuation Use Clear or Escape to remove the character in front of the cursor Use Left and Right to move the cursor Characters you enter appear after the cursor For example to rename a file to NewFile txt use Page 66 Page 339 Page 333 Page 44455533 111 8998 7 2 4 Working with folders The following commands are also available for use with folders e Delete to delete any selections you have made in the current folder or if you have not made any selections to delete the highlighted folder You will need to press OK or Enter twice to confirm your deletion e Create new to create a new folder This displays the same window as the Rename command except that the green button is labelled Create new 7 2 5 Working with files The following commands are also available for use with files e Delete to delete any selections you have made in the current file view or if you have not made any selections to delet
10. can get your Emails for you Click the Yellow button by e Pressing the yellow Teletext button on your remote if you have one e Pressing the Skip Replay buttons on your remote to highlight the yellow key and press the OK button e Press Shift F4 on your keyboard You will then be asked for each piece of information the Mail Reader needs The first screen looks like this Margaret s Email account 1 92 1 04 2 def3 4 ghi4 j 6 mno6 y pqrs7 9 wxyz9 Enter a title for your Email account Used in the list of Cancel available accounts Press More F 1 for Help The text at the bottom right explains what the Mail Reader needs You can enter text using the usual triple tap mechanism Page and Page change the characters available so you can enter upper case text and punctuation Press OK Enter or click the OK button when you have finished entering your data Alternatively e Press your Back button to return to the previous screen e Press the More key usually labelled i to get help e Click the Red button to cancel data entry and return to the initial screen The Mail Reader asks you for the following information e Title This identifies your account in the list shown when the Mail Reader starts For example Andy s Email account You must enter a title for each Email account and the title you enter must be unique e POP3 server address This is normally an address like this pop gmail com or l
11. client be the default torrent file handler simply do not run TFBT exe and use the other client s installation procedure instead To start the Ten Foot BT client you will have to e Move the torrent file you want to process into the Torrents folder e Start the Ten Foot BT client using the Ten Foot Launcher for example 3 12 Running with an RSS Aggregator An RSS Aggregator can monitor a standard fed from a web site and initiate downloads for you automatically You can use tools like Yahoo Pipes pipes yahoo com to filter feeds so you see only the downloads you want Depending on how your Aggregator works you can use one of two methods to initiate torrents 1 Run TFBT exe from the Ten Foot Products program folder usually c Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products using the address of the torrent file as a parameter This will copy the torrent file to the Torrents folder and run the BT client if it is not already running It will also ignore any duplicate torrent files To do this in the free CITA RSS Aggregator available from www SeelTA com RSSA go to the main window click Tools and Options and enter C Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products TFBT exe amp 1 into the BitTorrent command box like this Main window Password encryption No password encryption not recommended Password enter twice Use an intemal password for encryption o 1 po p Stop reading feeds after minutes of no keyboa
12. down Note that the pane at the bottom displays the name of the selected drive This pane has more room than the list and can therefore show very long names When you have selected a command and the window to run it on do one of the following e Press the OK or Enter button on your remote e Press Enter on your keyboard e Double click the command or program There are four different views available in the File Manager and they all work in the same way as the drives view e Drives view e Folders view e Files view e Favourites view Use one of the following methods to switch between views e Use the Forward and Rewind buttons on your remote e Use Shift F8 and Shift F7 Also some commands such as Show top folder automatically switch views for you The program remembers the path you take through the views and folders You can press your Back button at any time to retrace your steps This is an example of the folders view G Ten Foot File Mana er Show folder Alison Moyet America Anastacia Annie Lennox Antonio Forcione Art of Noise Beatles Bill Bryson Billy Joel Birdsong Blues Brothers Boney M Bread Camel Alison Moyet You can navigate down the folder tree by using Show folder on selected folders You can navigate back up the tree by using Show parent You can go back to the top folder for the drive at any time using Show top folder NB By default the File Manag
13. existing data at start up Elapsed time The time spent on the torrent so far excluding any time processing was interrupted Estimated completion A prediction of how long the download will take to complete The prediction is based on track record so far with this torrent rather than current download speed That means the prediction appears only after some data has been downloaded If the predicted time is less than one day you also see a predicted completion time Note that it is common to see long predictions when a download first starts This will reduce as download speed picks up Share ratio The amount of data you have uploaded divided by the amount of data you have downloaded A share ratio less than 1 means you have uploaded less data than you have downloaded Downloading took Appears if downloading is complete and tells you the time it took to complete the download excluding any time the download was interrupted Download rates A set of rates in KBytes per second relating to data downloaded to your PC e Limit the maximum download rate allowed means no limit e Current the current download rate this might occasionally exceed the maximum rate this includes data used to communicate with other BT clients e Average the average download rate for this download the average is reset whenever the download is restarted e Low the number of consecutive screen updates when the download rate was low If the number exceeds t
14. in the BitTorrents subfolder to your My Documents folder You also get to set the number of screen updates between updates to the torrent logs Changing these values takes effect immediately Maximum concurrent uploads per torrent Determines the maximum number of other people you will allow to download data from your PC at any given time By default this is set to 5 which means that up to 5 people can be sharing your data simultaneously Setting a higher figure means you will be encouraging more people to download data back to you but you will spread the available upload capacity more thinly and you will create a greater overhead on downloading Changing this value takes effect the next time you start the client Maximum connections per torrent This determines the maximum number of people you can connect to when downloading or uploading the data referred to by a torrent Setting a higher figure increases the chances of connecting to people willing to download data to you Itis unlikely that setting a figure higher than 80 will make much difference Higher values will also increase the overhead of the client on your PC Changing this value takes effect the next time you start the client Bandwidth share factors These are three numbers that determine how upload and download limits are spread across torrents that are being processed simultaneously These factors have no effect if you are processing just one torrent becaus
15. messages See the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide for more information Microsoft is aware of the issue and we hope it will be correcting the problem We have tried work arounds suggested by Microsoft and others but we ve not been able to get them to work We will keep looking though No support for DHT The BitTorrent client does not support a protocol called Distributed Hash Table DHT although this is planned for the future by the BitSharp developers DHT allows a client to run a torrent if the torrent s tracker is not responding In practice you are unlikely to need DHT very often and only if there is a problem with the tracker As things stand if the client detects the tracker is not responding it will simply keep trying until it gets a response 2 Working with the Browser This section provides help with using the Browser under the following headings e The initial web page e Working with web pages e The Browser menu e Working with Browser windows e Entering web page addresses e The remote mouse e Working with forms e Working with favourites e Working with page history e Working with popups 2 1 The initial web page When you start the browser you see the following web page Ten Foot Features Screen shots Download Support Browser home page Ten Foot Browser Your version of the Ten Foot Browser is up to date Show your favourite links IT Advice Accessibility Terms and conditions This t
16. or your Green button Press your OK button to confirm your request and the Launcher will shut down NB If you close down the launcher you will be unable to reactivate it using the hot buttons You should use this command only if you have a particular reason Tailoring possibilities The Launcher is by default set up to run the Ten Foot products However we have designed the Launcher to be a general purpose tool In the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide we provide instructions for e Adding extra programs to the Launcher e Running a program when you press the eHome or Big Green Button on your remote e Minimising additional programs when the Launcher runs e Overriding the minimise behaviour for some options e Changing the Launcher hot buttons 6 Using the Program Manager When the Program Manager starts you see commands listed on the left and running programs on the right something like this Minimize Maximize Restore Close Refresh Help Close TFPM Ten Foot Program Manager AppBar Bullet DC Wireless Network Monitor Inbox Microsoft Outlook Notes Start TenFootBrowser Running Microsoft Visual St User Manual for the Ten Foot Products docx M Vista Orb Clock The background to the commands is white That means you can select a different command Press up and down to select the command you want To select a running program e Press Right on your remote or keyboard e Press
17. se ace E Ea Ea E aU ara Ira Nan 80 1 Overview This section provides a quick overview of the Ten foot products and their features and benefits It also gives you a quick start for each product In the sections that follow we provide more detail on how to use and tailor each product We also supply a Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide that helps you adapt the products to your preferences equipment and language There are five Ten foot products at present e The Ten Foot Browser browse the internet e The Ten Foot BitTorrent Client download media from the Internet e The Ten Foot Email Reader browse your Emails e The Ten Foot Launcher run any program e The Ten Foot File Manager manage your files and folders e The Ten Foot Program Manager manage your running programs 1 1 Features of all the products We have designed them all to be useable even though they run on television screens viewed from several feet away All the products use simple screens using high contrast colours Each screen automatically resizes to match the available screen size All the products come with on screen help All the products are designed to work with media centre remotes They use a variety of techniques to minimise the number of button presses you have to make to use them The settings files we provide are based on Microsoft MCE remotes You can use these remotes or any others that emulate MCE remotes
18. to your PC However you will probably want to revisit some common locations time and time again We have therefore provided a favourites page You can record any folder as a favourite and use the favourites page to go straight to it whenever you want This is an example of the favourites view n Ten Foot File Manager lere mri fonda Archive Music Pictures Videos C Users Andy Henderson Documents BitT orrents Completed Downloads Note that you can give each shortcut a memorable name that translates into the address shown at the foot of the screen Use command Show favourite to go straight to the files view for the selected folder 7 2 Command summary In this section we describe all the commands available in the File Manager under the following headings e General commands e Selecting copying and pasting e Renaming files or folders e Working with folders e Working with files e Working with favourites 7 2 1 General commands The following commands are available in all views e Refresh updates the display in the right pane Most of the time the File Manager will automatically update the display as you make changes This is not always possible however Also there will be occasions when other programs on the PC are making changes at the same time as you are working with the File Manager You can therefore refresh the pane at any time with the Refresh command the Blue button or Shift F5 e Help dis
19. unlike seeds they don t have it all While you are downloading data you are also a leecher e Swarm the total number of leechers available e Connected the number of leechers you are connected to e Interested the number of leechers you want data from e Unchoked the number of leechers that are willing to give you data e Requested The number of packets of data you are waiting for Peers e Peers are leechers that are trying to get data from you Every leecher you are connected to is a potential peer e Interested the number of peers asking you for data e Unchoked the number of peers you are willing to give data to e Requested The number of packets of data you are sending Average completion The average percentage complete of all the leechers you are connected to Max completion The maximum percentage complete of all the leechers you are connected to 3 6 5 Related screens You will see simpler screens like this GB a4 BitTorrent Client Oceans 13teaser mov torrent This download finished at 10 10 2007 14 02 Seeding finished at 10 10 2007 14 04 Downloading took 2 minutes 35 seconds Total time 4 minutes 56 seconds Average download speed 114 69 Average upload speed 0 44 Change status for e Torrents that have finished or that you have cancelled or deleted e Periods when the BT client is not running any torrents 3 6 6 Switching between torrents If you are running multiple torr
20. you selected is open and points to your PC If in doubt use UPnP If there s a problem using UPnP you will see an error message when the client starts You can switch UPnP off at this point but you will need to forward the BitTorrent port manually The Ten Foot Product web site at http www SeelTA com TF BTCUPnPBug shtml provides more details If you enable UPnP you get the choice to remove the UPnP created connection when the client closes down Unless you want to use the BitTorrent port for another purpose we suggest you enable the remove option If the client cannot remove the connection it will still close down successfully Changing these values takes effect immediately although they are used only when the client starts and stops Stay awake while The chances are you have set your PC to suspend or hibernate after a set period of inactivity The client provides two options to prevent the PC suspending or hibernating while either e downloading data or e seeding data If you switch one of these options off the client can download seed only at times your PC is running If you enable both options the PC will not suspend hibernate until the torrent is finished Changing these values takes effect immediately Stop seeding at share ratio The BitTorrent protocol relies on cooperation To achieve a decent download rate you rely on other people sharing the data they have Good practice dictates that you should pass on a
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22. Skip Replay on your remote e Press Tab Back Tab on your keyboard or e Clickin the right pane with your mouse The background to the running programs turns white like this G Ten Foot Program Ma er i J Activate DC Wireless Network Monitor Inbox Microsoft Outlook Notes Start TenFootBrowser Running Microsoft Visual Stt Vista Orb Clock WebGuide Windows Sidebar AppBar Bullet You can then select a program by pressing up and down Note that the pane at the bottom displays the name of the selected window This pane has more room than the list and can therefore show very long names When you have selected a command and the window to run it on do one of the following e Press the OK or Enter button on your remote e Press Enter on your keyboard e Double click the command or program The commands allow you to e Activate the program This brings the program to the foreground and gives it the focus so that it can receive commands from your remote or keyboard If the program you are activating is minimised the Program Manager restores it to its normal size first e Minimise the program The program is hidden from view e Maximise the program so it takes over the entire screen The program is also given the focus e Restore the program to its normal size and gives it the focus Close the program You will need to press OK or Enter a second time to confirm your request The Program Manager sends the program a mes
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24. age with the Forward button Any other key cancels the remote cursor without clicking 24 Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 2 7 Working with forms Forms are made up from e Text boxes e Drop downs e Radio buttons e Check boxes and e Buttons The Browser helps you complete forms made up from these components Text boxes First select the text box by e tabbing to it using Skip Replay or e Clicking it with the remote cursor Enter text by pressing the Yellow button or clicking the Data entry button on the Browser menu You will see a screen like this 1 2110 9 def3 4 ghi4 j 6 mno6 7 pqrs7 9 wxyz9 Any text already in the box appears in the white box at the top of the screen You can enter text using the usual triple tap mechanism Page and Page change the characters available so you can enter upper case text and punctuation For example to enter the text Hello use Page 4 4 Page 3 3 5 5 5 wait 5 5 5 6 6 6 To add a new line in your text click the yellow button The Browser automatically remembers previous text that you entered You can access this via the Use history button You will see a screen like this Data we entered before Use DAGE highlighted highlighted text text Use the Green button to enter the highlighted text into the Browser Press up and down to change the highlighted text Use the Yellow button to toggle between displaying history for the curr
25. cations if you want See below 3 3 Using the BT client as your torrent handler Your torrent handler is invoked automatically when you e Clicka torrent file on a web site e Runa torrent file on your PC by double clicking it for example By default you do not have a torrent handler so torrent files are unrecognised in Windows To set the BT client as your torrent handler run program TFBT exe in the Ten Foot products folder normally C Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products If you are running under Vista you might need to right click and choose the option Run as Administrator Now when you click or run a torrent file TFBT runs and copies the file to the BitTorrents Torrents folder 3 4 Opening the communication port All internet connections are made via a port on your computer Some connections are made via standard ports web browsing for example usually uses port 80 By default the BT client communicates with other BT clients using port 58261 on your computer You can change the port with the Tuning facility see page 48 Note that to get the best download rates you need this port to be open That will allow other people to initiate connections with you If the port is not open you can only connect to people you know about and that significantly reduces the scope for finding people willing to share data with you However most PCs are likely to block non standard ports as standard this is good p
26. delighted to improve the Browser When you press the blue button key shift F5 or click Go to address in the Browser menu you see this screen 3 def3 6 mno6 9 wxyz9 Add as a Use a fragment fragment We use the usual triple tap mechanism for data entry so to enter seeita part of our address you would have to press the following buttons 7 7 7 7 3 3 wait 3 3 4 4 4 8 2 There s nothing unusual there However we ve optimised the triple tap for address entry e We don t bother with the upper case characters Virtually all web site addresses can be entered in both upper and lower case If you need to enter upper case characters use Page and Page to see alternate character sets e Use Page and Page to switch to entering punctuation You will see that we ve optimised the way punctuation has been allocated to number keys For example the 2 button just enters a character If you make a mistake while entering an address you can insert delete and replace characters e To insert a character use the left and right arrow buttons to place the cursor just before the new character and enter it in the usual way e To delete a character use the left and right arrow buttons to place the cursor immediately before the character s you want to delete and press the clear button e To replace one or more characters simply delete them and enter the replacement characters Fragments are an excell
27. e Keep alist of favourites and go to them without having to re enter addresses Review pages you ve been to recently and return to any of them without re entering the address Construct new addresses using fragments so for example you don t need to enter the red characters in http www bbc co uk Use a specially tailored version of the triple tap mechanism to enter new addresses Return to the media centre and come back to the Browser without losing your place e Manages popups and requests for new windows for you e Provides a mouse emulator that allows you to move an enlarged mouse cursor around the screen and right and left click buttons using just your remote e Includes a cursor highlighter in case you lose track of where your keyboard cursor is on the page e Makes good use of the teletext colour buttons if your remote has them you can still use the Browser if your remote does not have these buttons e Does not by default interfere with the operation of the Play Pause Volume up and Volume down buttons so you can continue to listen to what is playing while you use the browser The Browser is not an MCE add in It runs independently of MCE In fact it doesn t need MCE at all That means we have much more control over how the Browser works and you can use it with any media centre software We have tested it with GB PVR for example It also means you can switch back and forth between the Browser and your media centre w
28. e Email account and clear the protection password there You will then see a message saying the program is getting Email information You then see how many Emails are waiting to be read and the total size in bytes like this Margaret s Email account Number of Emails 2 Total size 7 141 Get Emails Press OK Enter to retrieve your Emails Note that unlike a normal Email reader the Ten Foot Mail Reader does not automatically delete the Emails it retrieves from the Email server That s because we assume that you still want to receive the Emails into your normal Email reader The Mail Reader does not delete any Emails unless you ask it to If there are no Emails the green button does not appear and the red button is highlighted automatically Press OK Enter to return to the Email Account list If you use the Get Emails option the screen updates as Emails are received from the server You will then see a screen like this RE Quiz night How are you Show Email The Mail Reader shows the title of each Email waiting for you at the account you selected Use Up Down and Page up Page down to select an Email To see the Email press OK Enter To mark an Email for deletion press the Left or Right button on your remote or click the Yellow button Do the same to unmark it again When you have finished with this account press Back or click the red button Any Emails marked for deletion are deleted at this point If yo
29. e Program Manager helps you manage programs running on your PC 1 6 1 Program Manager features It lists all the running programs so you can select any one and e Bring it to the foreground e Minimise it e Maximise it e Restore it as a window e Close it For example the Dcut editing program does its work in a program that is automatically minimised You can use the Program Manager to restore the window so you can see how it is doing 1 6 2 Program Manager quick start You can run the Program Manager from the Launcher Commands are shown on the left and running programs on the right Use Left and Right Skip and replay on your remote or Tab Back Tab on your keyboard to switch between the command and program pane Use up and down keys to select the command and program you want then press OK or Enter to execute the command on the selected program Use the More key labelled i or the Help command to display help with using the program Press your Blue key if you have one or run the Refresh command to refresh the list of running programs 1 7 The Ten Foot File Manager The File Manager helps you work with files and folders on your PC 1 7 1 File Manager features Using File Manager you can e Work with files and folders held on any device attached to your PC e Navigate up and down folder trees and display the files held in any folder e Copy files and folders to a different folder e Move files and folders t
30. e is a thin line at the bottom of the screen This is normally black but turns red while the Browser is loading a new page We are aware that not all remotes have the teletext buttons so we provide all the teletext functions via the Browser menu and an alternate button for accessing the menu 5 As you move the cursor to the foot of the screen a status bar pops up showing the current IE7 status Click this bar to show a menu 2 3 The Browser menu The Browser menu looks like this Exit the Remote Go to browser mouse address The top row matches the functions you can request directly via the coloured teletext buttons on remotes that have them The button highlighted with a white background is the one you will click if you press the OK or Enter button You can use your remote to move the highlight around the menu with the e Arrow buttons e The Skip and Replay buttons which act as tab and back tab keys As you move up and down between rows the colour highlighting changes too You can always click one of the coloured buttons by clicking the equivalent button on your remote For example clicking the Yellow button while the above version of the menu is showing will call up the Data entry screen You can always use a menu button the grey teletext button or the record button to cancel the menu Press the More button or F1 key to display help with using the menu Here is a brief description of each of the menu func
31. e it will receive the entire available upload and download capacity If you specify there is no download limit then all torrents are unlimited Similarly for the upload limit Share factor 1 determines how the download limit is spread It specifies the percentage of the download limit that is to be spread equally across all downloading torrents The remaining limit is spread according to the amount of data that has been downloaded already So torrents that are nearer to completion get a higher limit than the others Share factors 2 and 3 determine how the upload limit is spread Factor 2 specifies the percentage of the upload limit that is to be spread equally across all active torrents Factor 3 specifies the percentage of the upload limit that is to be spread equally across all downloading torrents The remaining limit is spread across downloading torrents according to the amount of data that has been downloaded already Changing these values takes effect immediately 3 9 Why downloads might be slow Computers are never fast enough You will see some downloads happening much faster than others Here are some reasons why downloads might be slow e You are starting up Because of the way BitTorrent works you might see an encouraging surge of download activity followed by a quiet period before the download gets going again That s normal e You are at the end of the download known as the end game At this point you need a few sp
32. e of the following data in addition to the data it shares with the Basics screen Extracts to If the torrent refers to a single file you see the file name If the torrent refers to a number of files you see how many files are being downloaded and the name of the folder the files are being downloaded to Pieces Each torrent consists of equal sized pieces that can be downloaded separately The Ten Foot BitTorrent Client assembles the pieces into the downloaded file s You also see the size of each piece and the total amount of data that has to be downloaded Started The date and time processing started for this torrent Restarted If appropriate the date and time processing was restarted Restarting happens if e the torrent is resuscitated e you hibernate or sleep your PC e you pause the download e you stop the client You also see the percentage of data that had been downloaded at the time of the restart If you restart the download multiple times you see details of the most recent one Finished The date and time downloading finished Downloaded data The amount of data you have downloaded so far for this torrent Uploaded data The amount of torrent data you have uploaded so far for this torrent Corrupt packets Pieces of the torrent are downloaded in packets Each packet is checked by the client to see if it has been corrupted If you see a large number of corruptions it indicates that either there i
33. e the account or change the response to N to delete it If you use the option to change the account you see the same screens you used when you added the account except that the Mail Reader shows you the existing data so you can change the bits you want Note that if you have not entered a protection password the program protects your POP3 password by displaying Keep existing password instead of the password itself If you need to change your POP3 password replace this text with the new password 5 Using the Launcher The Launcher runs automatically whenever you restart your PC It minimises itself to the Windows start bar and sits there waiting for you to activate it You can activate it by clicking it s icon in the start bar or pressing one of the Hot buttons twice in quick succession By default we have defined two hot buttons e The More key usually labelled i e The grey Teletext key We chose those keys because they do not have unwanted side effects in Microsoft MCE When you activate the Launcher you will see a window like this a fen hoot Tm Run the ten foot browser Run the ten foot BitTorrent client Run the ten foot mail reader Run the ten foot program manager Run the ten foot file manager Prevent auto sleep hibernate Help with using the launcher Close down the launcher Launch No action selected option Version 3 0 The Launcher automatically minimises Microsoft MCE if i
34. e the highlighted file You will need to press OK or Enter twice to confirm your deletion e Run torun the highlighted file You will see an error message if Windows doesn t know how to run the file you selected You will need to press OK or Enter twice to confirm you want to run the file 7 2 6 Working with favourites You can paste one or more folders into the favourites view to add them to your list of favourites You can also use delete to delete the highlighted favourite You will need to press OK or Enter twice to confirm your deletion Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 8 Installation To install the Ten Foot Products e Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 if you do not already have it If you use another browser such as FireFox you can continue to keep it as your default browser The Ten Foot Browser works best with IE7 because it comes with the ability to zoom into web pages which is extremely useful when viewing pages ona TV You can however use the Browser with earlier versions of IE if you prefer e Make sure you have Microsoft NET framework version 2 0 installed If you are running Microsoft Windows XP MCE then you already have NET 2 0 If you are unsure go ahead and try the installation anyway The installation program will prompt you to install the NET framework if it needs to Note that if you have other software that needs NET 1 0 or NET 1 1 they will not be disturbed by installing NET 2 0 The different vers
35. ecific pieces no others will do You can ask only people that have those pieces which restricts your downloading options If the people the client picks do not provide the data for some reason or provide it very slowly you will see poor download rates e Your BitTorrent port is not open This means people cannot contact you directly You are restricted to connections you initiate If your port is not open you will see poor download rates See page 36 for more information about opening your port e Asmall swarm If you have just a few people to deal with download rates will suffer In a larger swarm the client can ignore people that will not download to you and move on That s not possible in a small swarm It s not certain however that a small swarm will yield poor download rates If one member of the swarm has a high upload rate there s a better chance you will benefit from it e Many more leechers than seeders Most people have a much slower upload rate than download rate That s a by product of ADSL technology As a result the more leechers in a swarm the more people are competing for the limited upload capacity available It is particularly difficult to get started in a swarm with lots of leechers because if you have very little data you are not attractive to peers that will prefer to deal with people that have a better chance of providing the data they need You will often get better download speeds for a popular torrent if you wait a wh
36. ed downloads folder as soon as it has all the data e Continues to seed the data until you achieve a share ratio of 1 or until it detects uploading has stalled see page 45 You can override several aspects of this default behaviour see page 45 3 6 Working with the main BitTorrent client screen 3 6 1 The Basics screen Once the BT Client starts running you will see a Basics screen like this nm Oceans 13teaser mov torrent nn 19 83 Basics Torrent Swarm Status Downloading Elapsed time 30 seconds Est completion in 2 minutes 48 seconds at 14 02 Share ratio 0 00 Download rates Limit 500 00 Current 215 59 Average 38 53 Upload rates Limit 30 00 Current 1 56 Average 0 38 Change status It shows some of the following data The name of the torrent file The name appears in white with a red background if you are not connected to someone that has all the data In this case it is possible you might be unable to complete the download Progress bar and percentage If the bar is green on black it is showing you progress with data download The download will be complete when the percentage reaches 100 If the bar is blue on green it is showing you progress with seeding data Status One of e Downloading you are downloading and uploading data e Seeding downloading has finished You can use the downloaded data You are uploading data to other people e Hashing Checking
37. ells you that your version is up to date From here you can navigate the browser s web page You can also click the link to show your favourites 14 Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 If you see a not found page when you start the Browser then it s likely that e Your Internet connection is down or e You need to update your firewall to allow the Ten Foot Browser to access the Internet Alternatively you might see this page Ten Foot Browser home page IT Advice Ten Foot Browser There is a new version of the Ten Foot Browser What s in the new release Alternatively show your favourite links Accessibility Terms and conditions This tells you there is a new release of the Browser and provides you with a link to find out more about it 15 Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 2 2 Working with web pages We have designed the Browser so it can be used with a Remote a keyboard or a mouse The following lists the features available to you while browsing web pages Remote Keyboard Mouse Action OK or Enter Enter Click Click the selected item on the page Skip Tab Move to the next link or input field on the page IE7 highlights the active element by giving it a grey border However some pages have hidden links so the border can disappear Replay Shift tab Move to the previous link or input field on the page Forward Shift F8 Ctrl Zoom in to the web page if you have installed Scroll Inter
38. ent page and history for all pages Use the Delete highlighted text button to delete history you no longer need You will need to press the OK button to confirm your deletion If you just want to delete the contents of a text box just press Clear with your keyboard cursor anywhere inside the box Drop downs To select an entry from a drop down box enter the drop down by e tabbing to it using Skip Replay or e Clicking it with the remote cursor The currently selected entry will be highlighted Press the up and down arrow buttons to select the entry you want Radio buttons Radio buttons are laid out in groups of related buttons You cannot use Skip Replay to tab to individual radio buttons only the currently selected button in the group To select a different button in the group tab to the selected button and press the up and down buttons Alternatively you can select the radio button you want by clicking it with the remote mouse Check boxes Unlike radio buttons you can tab to check boxes individually using Skip Replay To check and uncheck a radio button press any number button while the check box is highlighted Alternatively you can switch the status of a check box from unchecked to checked and vice versa by clicking it with your remote mouse Buttons To click a button either e tab to it using Skip Replay and press your OK button or e click it with your remote mouse 2 8 Working with favourites
39. ent way to reduce the amount of data you need to enter The idea is that you should not have to enter the common parts of an address If you click Use a fragment you will see a screen like this html htm shtml aspx asp cfm default http www com http www net http www org http www co uk http www net uk http www org uk Use highlighted fragment When you select a fragment is replaced with the text you have already entered So to complete entry of our web address http www SeelTA com select http www com having entered seeita The Browser completes the address for you You can add a new fragment by entering it via the address entry page and clicking the Add as a fragment button You can delete a fragment by highlighting it in the above screen and clicking Delete highlighted fragment You then press the OK button to confirm the deletion Having entered a new address you might find you have entered it incorrectly The Browser might show you a not found page for example When you return to the new address page the address box is blank However the green button will show Get previous address Click the button to restore the address you entered before so you can change it As you enter a new address the green button automatically changes back to Go 2 6 The remote mouse In most web pa
40. ently running torrents and ignores any new ones When the Stop Torrent file is deleted the BT client restarts the previously running torrents and starts any new torrent files that might have arrived in the Torrents directory in the mean time If it finds a NoNew Torrent file the BT client continues to run existing torrents but does not start any new ones When the NoNew Torrent file is deleted the BT client starts processing new torrent files as normal If both files exist in the Torrents directory the Stop Torrent file takes precedence You can use this feature to schedule BitTorrent activity Suppose for example your Internet provider limits the amount of data you can download between 6pm and 2am You can use the Windows Task Scheduler to create the Stop Torrent file at say 5 50pm and delete it at say 2 10am The BT client will continue to accept new torrent files throughout each evening but will not process them until after 2pm Using Windows Task Scheduler means you can tick the Wake the computer to run this task box to schedule the BT client to start even if your PC is hibernated or suspended If you use this and the BT client s Stay awake while feature your PC will wake up at 2 10am start processing any pending torrents and then suspend hibernate automatically when the torrents are finished To make it easier for you to set up Task Scheduler we supply the following batch files in the Ten Foot Products program directo
41. ents you can switch between them using Forward Rewind on your remote or Shift F8 Shift F7 on your keyboard 3 7 Overriding the default behaviour 3 7 1 Using the BitTorrent client To override the default behaviour e Press the Yellow teletext button on your remote if you have one e Click the Change status button e Press Shift F4 You will see a screen like this Change torrent status Torrent Oceans 13teaser mov torrent Current status Started Downloading This screen tells you the current status of a download and allows you to change it The status is one of the following Started Hashing The torrent is being initialised and the client is checking existing data Started Downloading The torrent is being processed You do not yet have all the data Started Seeding The torrent is being processed You have all the data so you can start using it You are now giving out parts of the data to other people who need it Processing will finish when the share ratio data uploaded data downloaded reaches the prescribed level default is 1 Started Paused The torrent is being processed but you have paused it Use the Resume button to continue processing Waiting The torrent is waiting for other torrents to complete Use the Start button to start this torrent if necessary this will override the limit of how many torrents can be downloaded simultaneously Finished The current torrent has finished The data has been d
42. er does not show folders marked as Hidden You can change that behaviour via a setting See the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide for more detail You can see the files in a folder at any time by switching to the files view press Forward or Shift F8 This is an example of the files view n Ten Foot File Manager 01 Don t Go wma 02 Nobody s Diary wma 03 Winter Kills wma 04 Love Resurrection wma 05 All Cried Out wma 06 Invisible wma 07 That Ole Devil Called Love wma 08 Is This Love wma 09 Weak in the Presence of Beauty wma 10 Love Letters wma 11 It Won t Be Long wma 12 Wishing You Were Here wma 13 This House wma 14 Falling wma 01 Don t Go wma You can return to the folders view from the files view by pressing Rewind of Shift F7 Again by default the File Manager does not show files marked as Hidden You can change that behaviour via a setting See the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide for more detail By default the Run option performs the default action defined in Windows You can override this behaviour by adding to the settings file see the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide If you define multiple actions you will see a screen asking you to select which action you want to run For example you might have to decide which player you want to use to play an MP3 file Using the drives folders and files views you can navigate around all the files and folders attached
43. eric values e Yes No fields To change numeric values press Up or Down Pressing and holding down Up or Down causes the numbers to change more quickly When you move to a Yes No field you see a Green Toggle Yes No button like this Tune BitTorrent client settings Maximum download rate a Kb s Maximum upload rate E BitTorrent port number 82615 Use Universal Plug n Play Remove UPnP connection at the end Yes Stay awake while downloading Complete your changes More settings Toggle Yes No Toggle between Yes and No by e Pressing the Green teletext button on your remote if you have one e Clicking the Toggle button e Typing Shift F3 e Pressing OK on your remote or Enter on your keyboard if no other button is highlighted Use Complete your changes Yellow Shift F3 to confirm your changes and return to the main screen This button does not appear until you make a change Use More settings Blue Shift F4 to toggle between the two sets of fields Use Exit without change Red Shift F2 to return to the main screen without making any changes Maximum download rate Sets the maximum rate the client can download data If you run more than one torrent simultaneously this limit is spread across all the torrents so the client will try to keep the total download rate below the limit you specify Set the value to zero if you do not want to impose a download limit Note howe
44. ertaking so we use the BitSharp2 engine developed by a number of developers led by Alan McGovern and supported by Google BitSharp does the complicated network processing we wrote a user interface that works well with media centre PCs Because BitSharp is used in a number of BitTorrent clients you get much better reliability and performance than we could provide as a single developer 1 3 1 BitTorrent Client features The BitTorrent Client allows you to e Automatically queue execute and complete torrents e Run torrents sequentially one after the other or if you prefer run multiple simultaneous downloads e Set limits for download and upload rates The client dynamically apportions the available capacity across each running torrent You can continue to browse the Internet read Emails and so on while your torrents run in the background e Use Universal Plug n Play UPnP technology to automatically and safely open and close Internet connections for you e Prevent automatic suspension or hibernation of your PC while a torrent is active You can queue a set of torrents to run while you are out or in bed and the PC will shut down automatically when it s done e Run torrents directly from your browser including the Ten Foot Browser or RSS Aggregator including the free CITA RSS Aggregator e Automatically resuscitate downloads that have stuck All BitTorrent clients have the potential to get into situations where n
45. g line you can reveal the rest of the line You can zoom the size of the text used to show your Email Press Forward Rewind on your remote or F8 F7 to zoom in and out The Mail Reader remembers the settings for text size and word wrapping from Email to Email so you can set them the way you like them without having to reset them each time The Mail Reader starts by telling you e Who the Email is from e When it was sent e Who the Email was sent to e lf there are attachments to the Email how many there are e The Email s subject The Mail Reader then tries to display the text of the message Some mail servers do not provide a text equivalent of the message which is frankly antisocial Sometimes you will get a message that doesn t contain any text In these cases you will see a message explaining that no text is available Occasionally you might see a message saying Unable to retrieve this Email sorry That is because the Email server refused to supply the Email when requested If you try again later this problem will probably go away 4 3 Changing and deleting account details To delete or change an account highlight it on the initial screen shown on page 61 and click the Blue button If you provided a protection password for the account you will have to re enter it before proceeding You will then see a screen asking if you want to delete or change the account Use the default Y response to chang
46. gant If there is sufficient interest in the programs we will enhance them to use WPF graphics as used in the Vista version of MCE Unlike MCE however you would not need Vista to run the enhanced graphics Use of windows by the Browser We have constrained this version of the Browser to a single window Again if there is sufficient interest in the Browser we will consider producing a tabbed version If you click a link to a document such as a PDF or a Word document it will display in a new Window outside the Browser s control That means you will be unable to read the document using just your remote If a web page issues a command to close the current window the Microsoft browser software can go into an unresponsive state We have taken steps to prevent this happening but they do not always work We suggest you avoid links saying something like Close this window User ids and passwords in the Browser The Microsoft IE7 software allows us to suppress error messages generated by web pages so they do not disrupt your use of the browser Unfortunately this suppression also prevents the Browser from prompting you to enter user ids and passwords to get to some sites Most sites however use a technique known as forms authentication which presents no problem to the Browser If this behaviour is a problem to you there is a setting to enable display of all user id and password requests But this will also enable display of error
47. ges you can cycle through all the links and data entry fields using just the Skip and Replay buttons However that can be a bit tedious and doesn t help you if e The page is made up from several frames in which case Skip Replay will cycle around just one area of the page and won t take you to other areas e The page uses special programming such as Flash To help you we have introduced a cursor that you can control with your remote To call it up press the Green button Shift F3 or click Remote mouse on the Browser menu You will see a cursor appear on the page like this Personalise this page Sign in N rdi TM X O O e UK Web Images Groups News Froogle more Advanced Search Preferences Google Search I m Feeling Lucky Language Tools Search 9 the web pages from the UK Advertising Programmes Business Solutions About Google Go to Google com Make Google Your Homepage 62007 Google The remote cursor is much larger than a standard windows cursor You can move the remote cursor up and down left and right using the arrow buttons on your remote To click a link or select a data entry field place the remote cursor over any part of the page you want to click and press the OK or Rewind button To select a different frame on the page place the remote cursor over a blank part of the frame and press the OK or Rewind button You can also right click a p
48. he client provides statistics so you can see how your torrents are doing and if necessary tune the client s behaviour Control the client s behaviour through a simple interface using your remote Use the built in error detection and correction to make sure you get exactly the same data as the originator provided Resume your torrents from where you left off if you decide to shut down for some reason This works even if your PC shuts down unexpectedly in a power cut for example The client protects the data you already downloaded 1 3 2 BitTorrent Client quick start Before you start using the BitTorrent BT client you will need to 1 2 Ensure your BitTorrent port 58261 by default is open see page 36 Verify the default upload limit 26Kbps and download limit BOOKbps are appropriate for your Internet connection see page 49 You control the BT client in one of six ways You can 6 Run the BT Client from the Launcher Copy torrent files to the BitTorrents Torrents subfolder to your My Documents folder The BT Client creates this for you automatically the first time it runs Run the TFBT program at any time to tell Windows that the BT client is the default handler for torrent files After that clicking a torrent file in your browser or running a torrent file on your PC will invoke TFBT to copy the file to the right directory and run the BT client if it is not already running Create dummy torrent files i
49. he page address If you want to display the denied page you can do so by clicking the Popups button on the menu You will see a window like this Default action is Deny This site follows default action Last denied popup http www syndic8 com Deny Allow popups in denied this site popup In this example the Browser has recently denied access to popup page http www syndic8 com You can override the Browser with the Blue button This causes the page to be displayed in the Browser window If you know a certain site always displays popups for legitimate reasons you can come to this window while a page from the site is displayed and click the Yellow button This toggles the status of the displayed site between e This site follows default action e This site allows popups e This site denies popups If you allow popups for a site the Browser will still intercept request attempts to display pages in a new window and will replace the currently displayed page If you prefer you can change the default popup action in the browser Click the Green button to toggle the default action between Deny and Allow 3 Working with the BitTorrent client This section provides help with using the BitTorrent BT client under the following headings e BitTorrent overview e Standard folders e Using the BT client as your torrent handler e Default behaviour for the BT client e Working with the main
50. he threshold the torrent is resuscitated automatically Upload rates A set of rates in KBytes per second relating to data uploaded from your PC e Limit the maximum upload rate allowed means no limit e Current the current upload rate this might occasionally exceed the maximum rate e Average the average upload rate for this download the average is reset whenever the download is restarted e Low the number of consecutive screen updates when the upload rate was low If you are seeding and the number exceeds the threshold the torrent finishes automatically Use Skip Replay on your remote and Tab Shift Tab on your keyboard to move between buttons at the foot of the screen Click the Exit button Red Shift F3 and use OK Enter to close the client down If you are processing a torrent the data you have downloaded will be preserved and the torrent will restart automatically when you run the client again 3 6 2 Switching between screens Use Left Right to cycle between the three screens of data the BT client shows for each running torrent e Basic e Torrent e Swarm Alternatively use your mouse to click the relevant tab on the screen 3 6 3 The Torrent screen n BitTorrent Client Oceans 13teaser mov torrent Extracts to file Oceans 13teaser mov Pieces 469 Size 32Kb Total 15Mb Started 10 10 2007 13 59 Downloaded data 12 44Mb Uploaded data 0 00Mb Change status The Torrent screen shows som
51. ike this 64 233 183 109 You can find out your POP3 address from your existing Email program try looking for Email Accounts or Settings or from your Email provider e POP3 server id This is often but not always your Email address Again you can find out your POP3 server id from your Email settings or your Email provider e POP3 password Leave blank if your POP3 server does not require a password If you do not know your password you will need to get it from your Email provider or ask them to send you a new one e Whether your connection to the POP3 server is encrypted using SSL or not Most connections are not encrypted Google Mail Gmail is a notable exception Again you can find out from your Email settings or your Email provider Enter Y or N The default is N e Which port number the Mail Reader should use to connect to the POP3 server There are two standard ports 110 for unencrypted connections and 995 for encrypted connections The Mail Reader will suggest one of these defaults based on your answer to the previous question Unless you experience problems connecting we suggest you use the port the Mail Reader suggests e Optionally you can specify a password to protect your Email If you enter a protection password you will need to re enter the same password to Read your Emails Change the account details If you leave the protection password blank anyone with access t
52. ile until the number of seeders has increased relative to the number of leechers e Contention on your Internet connection Any other activity on your Internet connection has the potential to slow down your download That could be from other programs on your PC or from other PCs that share your Internet connection e What you are downloading We have noticed that download rates tend to be better if they are attractive to geeks for example We think that s because they tend to have better computer equipment than most and are more likely to have opened their BitTorrent ports to the Internet e Bad luck When you connect to a swarm the Tracker allocates a few people from the swarm for you to contact If for example none of those people have an open port you will be unable to connect with any of them and you will not get any data It s almost as bad if everyone has poor upload capacity The download rate you get at any time especially in large swarms is mainly down to luck If you see poor download rates have patience The client is designed to automatically improve the rate over time It is very common for a period of poor download rate to be followed by a period of high download rate 3 10 Using control files to schedule BT client activity The BT client constantly monitors the Torrents directory to see whether there is a new torrent file to process If it finds a file called Stop Torrent the case doesn t matter it stops all curr
53. indows e Tailor the product to your needs all text is externally defined so you can apply a different language 1 4 2 Mail Reader quick start You can run the Mail Reader from the Launcher To start reading Emails you need to add one or more Email accounts Press your Yellow button or press Skip Tab until the Yellow button is highlighted and press OK Enter You will be prompted for the following details e Title this identifies your account in the list shown when the Mail Reader starts For example Andy s Email account e POP3 server address 3 POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3 A protocol implemented by just about any Email system that allows you to retrieve and read Emails waiting for you e POP3 server id often but not always your Email address e POP3 password e Whether your connection to the POP3 server is encrypted using SSL or not most aren t Gmail is a notable exception e Which port number the Mail Reader should use to connect to the POP3 server defaults to the standard port e Optionally you can specify a password to protect your Email The first and last items come from you You can get the rest from your existing Email settings or your Email provider Press More F1 at any prompt to see more information Press Back to go back to the previous screen Having created an Email account e Use Up Down to highlight the account you want to work with and press OK Enter to see how many Emails are waiting for you
54. ing data This can happen at any time but is most likely to happen at the end of the download when you need just one or two pieces and none of the people that are willing to give you data have those pieces The client therefore has a mechanism to automatically resuscitate the download if it detects there is insufficient data being downloaded You specify a download rate in bits per second that is deemed to be low You also specify how many consecutive screen updates ticks at a low download rate should cause the client to stop and restart the torrent This will hopefully cause the client to reconnect to different people giving you more chance to complete the download You can disable this capability by setting the number of ticks to O Changing these values takes effect immediately Maximum concurrent downloads This determines how many torrents can be downloading data simultaneously Normally this is set to one but you might use a higher value if you have a fast Internet connection Note that you can temporarily override this limit by using the Change status button to start a torrent that is waiting for another torrent to finish Changing this value takes effect the next time you start the client Refresh progress display every This determines how many seconds should elapse before updating the main display The higher the figure you set the lower the overhead on processing torrents and other activity taking place
55. ions sit side by side and do not interfere with each other e Run the installation program which you will find at http www SeelTA com TF Click the Download link We strongly suggest that you accept the suggested location for installing the Ten Foot Products That s because the supplied settings file for the Ten Foot Launcher expects the other products to be in the default location You can of course install the products somewhere else but you will need to update the Launcher settings file if you do e By default the Ten Foot Products work in English as used in the UK If you prefer to see US English copy the files from C Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products US English Settings to the product directory C Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products The Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide that accompanies this manual explains how to modify the settings files to implement different languages If you decide to do this please consider uploading your files to the product forums at http www CITAForums com TenFoot for the benefit of other users e Finally run the Launcher You will not need to do this again because the Launcher will run automatically when you restart your PC To run the Launcher Click the Start button Click All programs Click CITA Ten Foot Products Click Ten Foot Launcher We hope you find the products useful If you have any comments of suggestions for improving the products or if yo
56. ithout losing your place you come back to the Browser exactly where you were when you left 1 2 2 Browser quick start The Browser starts by displaying a web page that tells you whether you have the latest version or not The following remote buttons are fundamental to operating the Browser these assume you are using a standard MCE Remote e Menu use either the Record key or the grey Teletext key The menu allows you to call up the Browser features Use Help to see more information about navigating the menu and the available options Alternatively use shift F6 on the keyboard or move your cursor towards the foot of the display until a Click to see menu panel opens up e Help use the More key labelled j Use this key while a web page is displayed to see The current status of the Browser and page that is being displayed What keys are available to you to control the Browser Keep pressing Help to see more information about using the Browser Use this key while a Browser form is displayed to find out more about the form and how to use it Alternatively press F1 on the keyboard or move your cursor towards the foot of the display until a Right click for help panel opens up To close the Browser down either e Press the Red teletext button and the OK button or e Press a Menu button and the OK button to select the Exit the browser option For more information about using the Browser see page 14
57. n the BitTorrents Torrents folder A file called Stop Torrent will cause the BT client to stop everything it is doing It will resume automatically when you delete the Stop Torrent file A file called NoNew Torrent will prevent the BT client from processing any new torrent files that appear in the BitTorrents Torrents folder Deleting the NoNew Torrent file will resume normal processing This approach makes it easy for you to use the Windows scheduler to create and delete the control files so that for example you can ensure the BT client runs only during times of the day when your Internet provider does not include downloads in a monthly capacity limit Use the BT client s Change status button to override normal processing to Start Stop Pause Resume Resuscitate and Delete torrents Use the BT client s Tuning button to tune the BT client s behaviour to your needs While the BitTorrent client is running use Rewind Forward on your remote or Shift F7 Shift F8 on your keyboard to switch between the torrents you are running Use Left Right or click the onscreen tabs to switch between panels describing different aspects of your torrent Use the More key labelled i on your remote to get help with any screen or panel The BT client stores completed downloads to the BitTorrents Completed Downloads subfolder to your My Documents folder You can move them from there to anywhere else This will not disrupt the BT client The full descri
58. net Explorer 7 the entire page is zoomed otherwise just the text is Zoomed Rewind Shift F7 Ctrl Zoom out from the web page Scroll Up T Up i Scroll Scrolls towards the top of the web page up Down 4 Down 4 Scroll Scrolls towards the bottom of the web page down Left Left Scroll Scrolls towards the left of the web page left Right gt Right gt Scroll Scrolls towards the right of the web page right Page PgUp Jumps towards the top of the page Page PgDn Jumps towards the bottom of the page More i F1 Displays the Ten Foot Browser status and help pages Status includes e Current page e Whether the browser is still displaying the page e The page status according to IE7 e Amessage if the browser is working offline e The Browser s version number Grey Shift F6 Highlig Displays the Browser menu see page 18 button or ht amp Record click status bar Red button Shift F2 Starts the shut down process Press OK or enter or Clear to confirm shut down Green Shift F3 Calls up the remote mouse so you can use mouse button operations with your remote see page 24 Yellow Shift F4 Displays a window that helps you to enter data button into a web form see page 25 Blue button Shift F5 Displays a window that helps you to enter the address of a new web page see page 20 Stop Stops IE7 if it is trying to display a web page Back Backspace Right Goes back to the previous page displayed by the click web browser menu Ther
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60. o a different folder e Delete files and folders e Rename files and folders e Create new folders e Run files for example you can run a program or open a text document in Note pad e Keep alist of favourite locations so you can go to them quickly 1 7 2 File Manager quick start You can run the Program Manager from the Launcher Commands are shown on the left and items on the right Press Forward and Rewind or Shift F8 and Shift F7 or your keyboard to switch between e Drives attached to your PC e Folders in the currently selected directory e Files in the currently selected directory e Your favourite locations Use Left and Right Skip and replay on your remote or Tab Back Tab on your keyboard to switch between the left and right panes Use up and down keys to select the command and item you want then press OK or Enter to execute the command on the selected item Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 Use the More key labelled i or the Help command to display help with using any of the four panes Press your Blue key if you have one or run the Refresh command to refresh the list of items 1 8 Known limitations Languages To start with the programs support just two languages e English the default language and e US English We hope people perhaps you will help us build new language packs to share with others Interface The interface in this version of the programs is simple effective but inele
61. o longer need Click the Blue Trim button to display a list of favourites like this BBC bbc co uk homepage Home of the BBC on the Internet Constructive IT Advice http www SeelTA com Google http www google com TPN The Media Center Show http mediacenter thepodcast The Green Button http www thegreenbutton com The Internet Movie Database http www imdb com Wikipedia http www wikipedia org Windows Live Search http www live com searchonly true Delete highlighted favorite To delete a favourite press up and down to select the favourite and press the Green button or press OK Enter 2 9 Working with page history The chances are that you will occasionally want to go back to a page you visited recently We record all the pages you visit so you can go back to any of them quickly even if you do not remember the page s address To see your history click History on the menu to see a window like this Show URL Show URL history by history by date title To return to a page you recently visited click one of the first three buttons They display your history in a simple web page The Red button lists them by date most recent first The Green button lists them by page name The Yellow button lists them by address The favourites page looks like this IT Advice Your history sorted by date Sunday 11 February 2007 BBC bbc co uk homepage Home of the BBC on the
62. o one is providing you with data or download speeds get very low The client detects periods when a torrent s download rate is poor and automatically restarts it causing it to find a fresh new set of people to work with e Automatically complete torrents when seeding rates are low You will often download data faster than you upload it To behave cooperatively you will have to keep your connections open after you have finished downloading until the amount of data you have uploaded is at least as much as you downloaded This is known as seeding The client will automatically seed your torrents until you achieve a share ratio data uploaded data downloaded you set However it is possible there are few people that need to download data in which case it could take a very long time to finish a torrent The client detects this is happening and terminates the torrent for you e Send completed downloads directly to the right folders for use in your media centre They become available as soon as the download is complete You can use the downloaded data straightaway even if the client is still seeding the torrent e Schedule your torrents for times when your Internet provider does not throttle bandwidth for example during the day Also known as MonoTorrent Temporarily override the automatic settings So for example you might decide to run two torrents simultaneously and then revert to running one at a time Monitor the torrent s progress T
63. o your media centre can read your Emails and change your account details although they will be unable to see your POP3 account password We strongly suggest you use a numeric password You will not see the characters you enter when re entering the password It s much easier to enter a numeric password than an alphabetic one All the data entry screens all work the same way However the triple tap button assignments change from screen to screen For example the port number is a number so the keys only generate the characters 0 to 9 4 2 Getting Emails Having added your account s the initial Mail Reader screen looks something like this G Ten Foot Mail Reader Andy s Email account Margaret s Email account Use Up Down to select the Account you want to read and press OK Enter If you set up a protection password for the account you will see a screen like this Please authenticate your request by providing the Cancel protection password Press More F1 for Help Note that the password you enter is not displayed as you key it That is why we encourage you to use a numeric password You have to specify a protection password just once in any session So having entered a protection password if you are leaving the room and want to make sure your Email is secure you should close down the Mail Reader first If you later decide you no longer want a protection password simply use the option to change th
64. on your PC If in doubt we suggest you leave this set to the default value of 10 seconds Changing this value takes effect immediately Save progress to disk every Data you download is automatically saved to disk as you receive it The value you specify here determines how often other data such as total data uploaded and downloaded is saved to disk Saves take place when the display is updated and you specify how many updates there should be between saves Note that for key events such as a torrent finishing the client forces an immediate save If in doubt we suggest you use the default value of 6 ticks If you use the default update interval of 10 seconds that means you will save data once a minute Changing this value takes effect immediately Keep a log of all activity and Update the log every Normally there is no purpose to logging activity You should therefore leave logging off unless you have a particular reason to turn it on The most common reason is to produce diagnostic data of a problem you want to report to Constructive IT Advice If you activate logging the client produces two kinds of log 1 A log of torrent activity A log file is created for each active torrent The file name is the torrent file name with the final torrent being replaced by log 2 A log of Universal Plug n Play UPnP interactions between the client and your Internet router The file name is UPnP log Both logs are stored
65. ou restart your PC By default we have defined two hot buttons e The More key usually labelled i e The grey Teletext key Press one of these buttons twice in quick succession and the Launcher window will appear By default if you are running MCE at the time the Launcher will minimise it that s to stop it interfering with execution of other applications To run one of the Ten Foot products use your up and down buttons to select the product and press your OK button your Enter button or your Green button or press your Enter key The program you requested will appear and the Launcher will minimise itself until you call it up again Select Prevent auto sleep hibernate to prevent your PC sleeping or hibernating automatically The option changes to Allow auto sleep hibernate so you can reinstate automatic sleeping or hibernating To cancel a Launcher request press your Red button or press Skip until the red No action Launcher button is highlighted and press your OK button To close the Launcher down use your up and down buttons to select the Close down the launcher option and press either your OK button or your Green button Press your OK button to confirm your request and the Launcher will shut down For more information including how to add programs to the Launcher and run a program when you press the Big Green Button on your remote see page 34 1 6 The Ten Foot Program Manager Th
66. ownloaded and you have shared enough of the data with other people Cancelled You cancelled the current download while it was still in progress Use the Restart button to resume this torrent Invalid The Ten Foot BitTorrent Client encountered a problem with this torrent file as described on the main screen Use the Restart button to try restarting the torrent Depending on the status of the download you will see different buttons at the bottom of the screen Besides clicking a button with a mouse you can use the buttons in the following ways e Press Red or Shift F2 e Press Green or Shift F3 also if no buttons are highlighted you can also press OK on your remote or Enter on your keyboard e Press Yellow or Shift F4 e Press Blue or Shift F5 You will see a selection of the following buttons Back Returns you to the main screen Start Starts a torrent that is waiting Restart Asks the client to restart the torrent after an interruption Delete You will be asked to press OK or Enter to confirm your request The program will delete the torrent file and the temporary copy used for seeding The program will not delete the final version of the file created when a download completes If a torrent is still downloading you will lose all data you have downloaded so far Pause Temporarily stops the torrent from running all your existing connections with other BT clients are retained Resume Resumes a torrent after it has been pa
67. ownloaded some of the file the BT client can then share it with other people that need it Your PC becomes part of a downloading network that allows people to work together to share the download file The following table describes some terms commonly used in relation to BitTorrent 6 Throughout these notes we will assume torrent files refer to a single file to be downloaded However a torrent file can also describe several files and a folder hierarchy Term Tracker Download Piece Upload Seed Leecher Peer Swarm Share ratio Interested Choked Unchoked Hashing Description A web site that coordinates requests from people wanting to start a torrent The tracker keeps track of everyone currently working with a torrent and provides introductions between new joiners to the swarm and existing members of the swarm The process of receiving data you need from other BT clients The data to be downloaded is divided into fixed length pieces of data Progress is measured by how many complete pieces have been downloaded The process of sending data you have to other BT clients that need it A BT client that has all the data and is still sharing it with others Someone that is downloading data referred to by a torrent A leecher you are currently connected to Everyone that is either seeding or leeching a given torrent The amount of data uploaded from you to others divided by the amount of data downloaded by yo
68. plays a brief help page for the current view e Close TFFM closes the Ten Foot File Manager You need to press OK Enter twice to confirm you want to shut down the File Manager 7 2 2 Selecting copying and pasting You can select as many files or folders as you want from a single folder and copy or move them into any other folder You can also make any folder a favourite by copying into the favourites view You can use any of the following methods to select files or folders e The Select all command selects all files or folders e The Deselect all command cancels any current cut or copy command and deselects any selected files or folders e The De select command toggles the selection status of the highlighted file or folder if it is not selected it becomes selected and vice versa e You can also use Right buttons when the right pane is already active to do the same as the De select command Having selected the files or folders you want to work with select Cut to move them or Copy to copy them and press OK or Enter Note that if you run Copy or Cut without any files or folders being selected the File Manager automatically selects the highlighted file or folder Now you can navigate to the folder where you want to copy or move the files or folders to As you navigate you will see a message reminding you that a copy or cut is pending The File Manager shows a new Paste command in the folders view When you are
69. ption on page 34 tells you how to store completed downloads in different folders For more information about using the BitTorrent client see page 34 1 4 The Ten Foot Mail Reader Keeps details of your Email account s and allows you to monitor them using your remote The Mail Reader works with any Email account that supports the POP3 standard which is virtually universal The Mail Reader can cope with encrypted connections required by some Email providers such as Google 1 4 1 Mail Reader features The Email Reader allows you to e Make good use of the space available on your TV to display Emails all forms and text are automatically resized to the resolution and size of your display You can also Zoom into and out of Emails adjusting the size of the text used to show each Email and Switch between word wrapped and non word wrapped views of each Email e View Emails from as many accounts as you want e See lists of Emails and the text of any Email in the list e Delete any Email that you don t want to keep any others will still be passed on to your normal Email reader e Add delete and change account details all from the comfort of your armchair e Protect your Email server password the Mail Reader never discloses it and uses strong encryption to store passwords internally e Optionally protect any Email account with a password so that it is not available to everyone that uses your media centre e See help text for all w
70. ractice from a security viewpoint Blocking usually occurs in two places 1 Atyour firewall 2 Atyour router You should therefore instruct your firewall to allow inward TCP connections on the port you have selected You will also need to use a technique known as port forwarding to allow connections to be made through your router on to a nominated PC Fortunately there is a standard way to do this known as Universal Plug n Play UPnP that the Ten Foot BitTorrent Client can use to forward ports for you automatically This is switched on by default If you google for port test or port scan you will find loads of sites offering to test whether your ports are open The better ones allow you to test individual ports To make sure the port is open run the BT client and test port 58261 The Ten Foot Product web site www SeelTA com TF BTCPortSetup shtml provides more information about setting up ports 3 5 Default behaviour for the BT client By default the BT client e Monitors the Torrents folder for new torrent files e Validates the torrent file e Looks to see if it is already downloading a torrent and if it is queues the new torrent e Starts the next torrent when there are no other torrents downloading e Contacts the torrent s Tracker and connects to the torrent s swarm e Starts downloading data e Starts uploading seeding data as soon as it receives the first complete piece e Copies the downloaded data to the Complet
71. rd or mouse activity 0 No limit Use default browser instead of the intemal Intemet Explorer browser Automatically register unread items for tracking when you view them in the aggregator Automatically register unread items as ignored when you close the main window Disable malicious HTML checking Randomise time intervals between channel updates Start the Aggregator automatically V Allow the main window to minimise Disable check for double running Enclosure Podcast downloads Ignore Download all regardless of size 9 Auto download if less than 9 o Kone Start auto downloads only between 19 00 and 2300 Download to directory CADownloads BitTorrent command C Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products TFBT exe amp 1 4 2 Set up the Aggregator to store the torrent file in the Torrents folder and optionally run the BT client this step is unnecessary if you leave the BT client running Version 4 Dated 4 October 2007 4 Working with the Mail Reader This section provides help with using the Mail Reader under the following headings e Adding account details e Getting Emails e Changing and deleting account details 4 1 Adding account details When you first run the Mail Reader you will see a screen like this 24 Ten Foot Mail Reader No accounts defined yet You will need to tell the Mail Reader about your Email account s so it
72. ry usually C Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products e StopBTTorrents bat creates a Stop Torrent file if it doesn t already exist e StartBTTorrents bat deletes the Stop Torrent file if it exists e NoNewTorrents bat creates a NoNew Torrent file if it doesn t already exist e ResumeBTTorrents bat deletes the NoNew Torrent file if it exists To use these files copy them to your Torrents directory the BT client will ignore them and set up the Windows Task Scheduler accessed via the Scheduled Tasks control panel in Windows XP and the Administrative Tools control panel in Windows Vista to run the relevant batch file at the relevant time 3 11 Running alongside other BT clients You should not try to run two BitTorrent clients at the same time If they share the same port on your PC they cannot run simultaneously While it is feasible to run two clients using different ports they will almost certainly get in each other s way However you might want to use the Ten Foot BT client in some situations and another client in others You will need to decide which is the default torrent file handler If having installed a different client you find the Ten Foot BT client is no longer the default handler run TFBT exe in the Ten Foot Products program folder usually c Program Files CITA Ten Foot Products TFBT will reinstate the Ten Foot BT client as the default torrent file handler Alternatively if you prefer that another
73. s a problem with your internet connection or that someone is injecting bad data into the torrent 3 6 4 The Swarm screen n BitTorrent Client Oceans 13teaser mov torrent 0 EAW Basics Torrent Swarm Seeds Swarm 212 Connected 28 Interested 28 Unchoked 28 Requesting 67 Leechers Swarm 4 Connected 2 Interested 0 Unchoked 0 Requesting 0 Peers Interested 0 Unchoked 0 Requesting 0 Average completion 0 00 Max completion 0 00 Change status The Swarm screen shows some of the following data in addition to the data it shares with the Basics screen Seeds Seeds are other people that have downloaded all the data referred to by the torrent and are now sharing it If you have downloaded all the data you are also a seed If you are not connected to any seeds it is possible you will be unable to complete the download If there are a large number of leechers this is unlikely to be a problem because they are likely to have all the data between them Swarm the total number of seeds available Connected the number of seeds you are connected to Interested the number of seeds you want data from Unchoked the number of seeds that are willing to give you data Requested The number of packets of data you are waiting for Leechers Leechers are other people that have downloaded some of the data referred to by the torrent Leechers also share the data they have available but
74. sage asking it to close There is however no obligation for the program to obey the request Most programs will Some will display a message asking you to confirm closure Others will ignore the request especially if they are in an error state Refresh the list of programs You can also press the Blue button on your remote if you have one Get Help with using the Program Manager You can also press the More button on your remote Close the Program Manager You will need to press OK or Enter a second time to confirm your request In this section we provide e Anoverview of the File Manager which explains how to navigate through files and folders e Command summary which explains each command shown by the File Manager When the File Manager starts you see commands listed on the left and a list of drives on the right something like this Ten Foot File Manager ee Refresh Help Close TFFM Version 3 0 The background to the commands is white That means you can select a different command Press up and down to select the command you want To select a drive in the right hand pane e Press Right on your remote or keyboard e Press Skip Replay on your remote e Press Tab Back Tab on your keyboard or e Clickin the right pane with your mouse The background to the drives pane turns white like this n Ten Foot File Mana er Top folder D CDRom You can then select a drive by pressing up and
75. t detects it is running That s because if the MCE window is visible it takes focus from other windows and interferes with the Ten Foot Products This has no effect on any recording you might be making at the time To run one of the Ten Foot products use your Up and Down buttons to select the product and press your OK button your Enter button or your Green button or press your Enter key The program you requested will appear and the Launcher will minimise itself until you call it up again The Prevent auto sleep hibernate option causes the launcher to send regular stay awake requests to Windows This prevents it from suspending or hibernating automatically Useful if you have your PC set to sleep or hibernate automatically but you know you want to keep it awake for the time being If you activate this option it changes to Allow auto sleep hibernate run this option to reinstate normal sleep hibernate functions If you force your PC to sleep or hibernate while the Prevent auto sleep hibernate option is active the Launcher will disable it when you return That minimises the risk of you preventing sleep hibernate by accident To cancel a Launcher request press your Red button or press Skip until the red No action Launcher button is highlighted and press your OK button To close the Launcher down use your Up and Down buttons to select the Close down the launcher option and press either your OK button
76. t least as much data as you download The client will automatically finish with a torrent when you have downloaded all the data and the share ratio percentage the amount of data uploaded the amount of data downloaded x 100 you specify here has been achieved We strongly suggest you set a value of at least 100 You will see a warning message if you set a lower figure Changing this value takes effect immediately Stop seeding after and Low upload rate Normally the BT client downloads the file s referred to by the torrent file then shares data seeds for a while until the prescribed share ratio is reached at which point the torrent finishes However it is possible that most of the people you are connected to already have all the data in which case it could take a very long time to achieve the share ratio In some cases that might never happen The client therefore has a mechanism to stop seeding if there is no demand for the data You specify an upload rate in bits per second that is deemed to be low You also specify how many consecutive screen updates ticks at a low upload rate should cause the client to stop seeding and finish the torrent You can disable this capability by setting the number of ticks to 0 Changing these values takes effect immediately Automatically resuscitate after and Low download rate It is possible for the Ten Foot BitTorrent Client to get stuck while download
77. tions Menu button Exit the browser Remote mouse Data entry Go to address Stop Refresh Home Back History Favourites Popups Make this page your home Status Highlight cursor Minimise browser Exit menu What it does Shuts down the Browser Calls up the remote mouse so you can use mouse operations with your remote see page 24 Displays a window that helps you to enter data into a web form see page 25 Displays a window that helps you to enter the address of a new web page see page 20 If IE7 is displaying a page this button stops it Refreshes the current web page Goes to the web page you have defined as your home page Returns to the page previously displayed by the Browser Helps you use and manage your web page history see page 30 Helps you use and manage your web page favourites see page 28 Helps you manage web pages that request to be displayed in a new window see page 32 The web page that is currently showing becomes the page you see if you click the Home button Shows the current status of the Browser and provides help for using the Browser Displays large arrows that show you the location of the keyboard cursor on the page If the cursor is placed outside the area you can see on the screen the arrows appear at the relevant edge s By default the highlight arrows flash three times You can cancel the highlight by pressing any remote button pressing any keyboard key
78. u ask to see an Email you will see a screen like this From i ELE e Sent 26 February 2007 18 04 40 To Margaret Henderson Subject RE Quiz night Hi Margaret Yes we d both like fish amp chips How much is it Do we pay on the night or do you have to pay when you book numbers Let me know if you want a cheque beforehand See you there From Margaret Henderson Sent 26 February 2007 16 10 To Subject Quiz night Note that unlike most screens there are no buttons That s to provide the maximum amount of space for reading the Email To see the buttons press the grey Teletext button or the Record button on your remote Press the same key again to hide the buttons The buttons show two options e Exit returns you to the Email list you can press your Back or OK buttons to do this even if the Exit button is not displayed e Word wrap Do not wrap text This option allows you to toggle the text between Word wrapped all the text of each line is always visible on screen If there is not enough space to show a complete line the rest of the line is Shown underneath the first part You can use Up Down and Page Up Page down to see the text of the Email Not word wrapped if there is not enough space to show a complete line you see just the first part of the line The box contains a cursor that you can move through the text using Left Right Up Down and Page up Page down By moving the cursor to the right along a lon
79. u encounter a bug please let us know We have provided a set of forums at http www CITAForums com TenFoot Alternatively email us at Andy SeelTA com Constructive IT Advice
80. u from others To be sociable you should not finish a torrent until you have achieved a share ratio of at least 1 A leecher registers that it is interested in a seed or another leecher that has data it needs This elicits a response that tells the leecher whether it is choked or unchoked A peer will choke you if it is unwilling to give you data For example it might have reached the limit of the number of people it can send data to Similarly you can choke a peer if you are unwilling to send it data A peer will unchoke you if it is willing to give you data Similarly you can unchoke a peer if you are willing to send it data The process of checking a partially complete download to make sure the data is valid This happens when the BT client is restarted having been interrupted during a download 3 2 Standard folders When you first run the BitTorrent client it creates the following folders as subfolders to your My Documents folder My D BitTorrents Torrents Downloads Completed downloads The BT client constantly monitors the Torrents folder looking for new torrent files to process Having started to process a torrent file the BT Client downloads the data to the Downloads folder Once the download is complete it makes a copy of the downloaded data to the Completed downloads folder That means you can open move or delete the downloaded data even if the BT client is still seeding it You can change these default lo
81. used Stop Stops a torrent that is being processed You can return to this screen and restart it later Resuscitate Stops and restarts the torrent This causes all the current connections to be closed Use this button if the torrent appears to be stuck Note that depending on the client s settings it will automatically resuscitate downloads that are stuck 3 7 2 Using the BitTorrent client control file In the Tailoring and Regionalisation Guide we provide instructions for altering e The location of the BitTorrent folder e The location of the Completed Torrent folder e The number of days the BT client retains history in its settings file We also provide instructions for setting up separate Completed Torrent locations based on file extension so for example files ending in avi go to your my Videos folder 3 8 Tuning the BT client To tune the client e Press the Green teletext button on your remote if you have one e Click the Tuning button e Press Shift F3 You will see a screen like this Tune BitTorrent client settings Maximum download rate Maximum upload rate BitTorrent port number 58261 Yes Use Universal Plug n Play Yes Remove UPnP connection at the end Yes Stay awake while downloading More settings Use Skip Replay on your remote and Tab Shift Tab on your keyboard to move between fields on the screen and the buttons at the foot of the screen There are two types of field e Num
82. ver that the BT client cannot undertake to impose this limit exactly You will therefore see the limit being exceeded from time to time The limit is expressed in KBytes per second Your Internet provider probably quotes your line speed in MBits per second To convert MBits per second to KBytes per second multiply by 100 This is not an exact calculation but gives a good approximation that takes into account the overhead required when transferring bytes of data In practice it is unlikely that download rates will exceed the capacity of most broadband connections It is worth making sure however by setting a maximum download rate significantly below the capacity of your Internet connection That will prevent downloads interfering with your other uses of the Internet such as web browsing Changing this value takes effect immediately Maximum upload rate Sets the maximum rate the client can upload data If you run more than one torrent simultaneously this limit is spread across all the torrents so the client will try to keep the total upload rate below the limit you specify Set the value to zero if you do not want to impose an upload limit Note however that the client cannot undertake to impose this limit exactly You will therefore see the limit being exceeded from time to time The limit is expressed in KBytes per second It is particularly important to set an upload limit below the upload capacity of your internet connection

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