Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 9

= June 9 =

Fast internet connection, slow torrent, wifi
I use a wifi connection to connect to the internet on my laptop. My PC uses a cable from the same modem to connect to the ineternet as well. Browsing and download speeds are very fast on the PC, and browsing speed is quite fast on my laptop as well. However, whenever I try downloading things via torrent on my laptop, the speed's woeful. This has nothing to do with the number of seeders/peers, since the same torrent on my PC has fast download speeds. I'm trying to ascertain exactly what settings (if any) might be wrong on my laptop to make the torrents behave in this way (the client has been set up using the same preferences and settings on both PC and laptop). Can anyone give me a heads up? Cheers. La  Al qu im  is ta  06:59, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Have you tried connecting your laptop by cable to check that it really is a settings and not a WiFi problem?    D b f i r s   07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * It could be a number of things, but my money's on blocked ports. There's a page in the bittorrent.com user manual about it here: http://www.bittorrent.com/help/manual/chapter0203. Portforward.com is also a frequently cited resource on p2p forums. --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  |  14:24, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Free, Working eCommerce software?
I am in the process of setting up a small shop within my website, and have hit a little problem in that I have no idea what software I should install to run this shop on.

Following advice from another site, I tried out Magneto and OScommerce. The former appears to be elaborate advertising for an alternative paid shopfront software, there are pages of instruction on how to reconfigure the dashboard settings and code for various pages to turn it into a functional site and remove all the references to it being a demo site, and links to the paid version on the Magneto website, I've looked through, and it's a lot of complicated work that I only understand about half of, so I'd rather avoid that option if possible. The OScommerce service has a simpler problem, it only allows two online payment services, neither of which I have an account with. I use eWay as my payment gateway, given that they are quick to set up, simple to use, cheap and provide great customer service (unlike certain other services I can think of) but there appears to be no way to configure them as my payment provider of choice.

Does anyone know of a software I could install that would allow me to set up a shop page, using my choice of payment service, that works as a usable site, rather than a 'demo' right away, and preferably that doesn't require me to spend an hour deleting various 'example' products and orders?

Or, at this point I'd even be happy to pay a small fee for such a service, if that is what it takes.

Thank you,

Kitutal (talk) 19:32, 9 June 2014 (UTC)


 * eWay has a list of shopping cart software which supports eWay integration here. Some support eWays' RAPID payments API; and for many they list the steps you have to take to integrate that cart software with eWay's payment system. It's a fairly massive list, so maybe this gives you too many options. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 19:42, 9 June 2014 (UTC)