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Good morning all,

I'm not sure if the title made 100% correct sense. Essentially I am away quite a bit for work but my laptop at home stays on, doing general downloads. All of those downloads would have been started while I was there. I was just wondering whether there was a way to select a download while I am on my second laptop and remotely send it to my home laptop, and have it pop up on begin downloading on utorrent, so that it might be completed before I got back?

Not looking into getting into any debates on the morality or legality of downloading stuff. Any potential risk would be my own indaba, and these downloads aren't specified. Just wondering about the above. Thanks guys!!!
 
mdross88 said:
Good morning all,

I'm not sure if the title made 100% correct sense. Essentially I am away quite a bit for work but my laptop at home stays on, doing general downloads. All of those downloads would have been started while I was there. I was just wondering whether there was a way to select a download while I am on my second laptop and remotely send it to my home laptop, and have it pop up on begin downloading on utorrent, so that it might be completed before I got back?

Not looking into getting into any debates on the morality or legality of downloading stuff. Any potential risk would be my own indaba, and these downloads aren't specified. Just wondering about the above. Thanks guys!!!
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as it so happens, im trying to think of something similar for myself;
utorrent remote app; I think it will allow pausing and renewing downloads on the fly; not too sure how it works;

maybe a fellow pirate can enlighten us;
 
Manage the remote pc with TeamViewer?
 
uTorrent has a web interface, which you could access from anywhere to queue torrents.
 
im in a similar boat.. would love to have a solution to this... something like teamviewer maybe?
 
I use a Raspberry Pi as a downloading machine. It has Transmission installed, which has a webportal. I've never played with uTorrent's webportal, but if it works as well as Transmission's it should be a neat and easy solution.

More detail:
You'll need some way to access your laptop. I use www.noip.com for that. You might also need to forward the relevant ports on your router to your laptop.
 
Set up a Dropbox folder as your watch folder for the torrent software. Drop the .torrent link into that folder from wherever you are.

You will need to disable the option that shows you the files in a window or else the software will just sit there waiting for your input. Also make sure that the destination folders are set up beforehand.
 
Thor187 said:
Teamviewer easy
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What I like about an html solution is that it is easy to give others access to the downloads without giving them access to the whole PC. It is also less bandwidth hungry.

garyc said:
Set up a Dropbox folder as your watch folder for the torrent software. Drop the .torrent link into that folder from wherever you are.

You will need to disable the option that shows you the files in a window or else the software will just sit there waiting for your input. Also make sure that the destination folders are set up beforehand.
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Also seems like a good solution. The only drawback is that you can't see progress and disk space. Okay, I guess that disk space is less of an issue for a fully fledged laptop than for my Raspberry.
 
A lot of torrent clients have web controls, just look in the settings.

If you need to download other files, besides torrents, remotely then take a look at pyLoad.
 
Teamviewer is an awful way to do this, unless you use a torrent client that doesn't support a web interface.
 
Tacet said:
What I like about an html solution is that it is easy to give others access to the downloads without giving them access to the whole PC. It is also less bandwidth hungry.



Also seems like a good solution. The only drawback is that you can't see progress and disk space. Okay, I guess that disk space is less of an issue for a fully fledged laptop than for my Raspberry.
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Teamviewer for the OP


Utorrent remote for you
 
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