Anyone use it? Which sources or software do you use?
AND DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO MAKE MINE GO FASTER?
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QUOTE (MrGreenDayUK @ Jul 23 2008, 10:45 AM) 
Anyone use it? Which sources or software do you use?
AND DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO MAKE MINE GO FASTER?
AND DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO MAKE MINE GO FASTER?
I suppose you mean clients...
Most popular at the moment is µTorrent followed by Vuze, but there is a great number to pick from - what do you prefer? Lots of options and settings, lightweight, easy to use?
About how to make it faster - do you have your ports forwarded? That helps the most considering speed, and after that right settings, here's a little calculator for Vuze that could help you, but the settings are similar in all clients so you can use it to figure out the settings somehow
I use uTorrent.
The most common problem with torrents is the ports being misconfigured or a firewall blocking certain things.
The most common problem with torrents is the ports being misconfigured or a firewall blocking certain things.
I have utorrent but only use isohunt works well! 
I also forgot to add that BitTorrent 6 is more or less just µTorrent with few added things, but since they're both official clients (developed by BitTorrent inc), you can't go wrong by using them..
QUOTE (Gibson970 @ Jul 23 2008, 08:43 PM)
but only use isohunt works well!
If you want your computer infected by trojans
http://Demonoid.com is the only Torrent site I would trust
QUOTE (Marc. @ Jul 23 2008, 01:01 PM)
If you want your computer infected by trojans ;)
http://Demonoid.com is the only Torrent site I would trust
http://Demonoid.com is the only Torrent site I would trust
Well private trackers in general can be considered "safe", at least when it comes to virus threats
i dont like demonoid it crashed my computer two weeks ago when i tried it
QUOTE (Gibson970 @ Jul 23 2008, 09:15 PM)
i dont like demonoid it crashed my computer two weeks ago when i tried it
Wow, you got a BSOD from a simple HTML website? I'd be looking at your Web browser or computer in general.
Are you guys fucking retarded? Pirate Bay FTW
lawl, those guys are going to so busted soon.
lawl, those guys are going to so busted soon.
Slowing the Upload Speed might help a little, Tom. :]
QUOTE (Mechanical Man @ Jul 23 2008, 04:58 PM)
Are you guys fucking retarded? Pirate Bay FTW
lawl, those guys are going to so busted soon.
lawl, those guys are going to so busted soon.
They've been around for a few years, have a good lawyers, support of some politicians but **AA's keep saying the same what you - if it would be that simple they wouldn't be doing it for so long
I think they'll stick around for quite some time and have will have an interesting future
QUOTE (Revan @ Jul 23 2008, 02:24 PM)
They've been around for a few years, have a good lawyers, support of some politicians but **AA's keep saying the same what you - if it would be that simple they wouldn't be doing it for so long
I think they'll stick around for quite some time and have will have an interesting future
I think they'll stick around for quite some time and have will have an interesting future
They were shut down for a while
I use to use uTorrent but I deleted it because it caused a lot of problems for me. I prefer not to use torrents. =/ Bad experience with them. =[
QUOTE (Melly. @ Jul 23 2008, 04:12 PM)
Slowing the Upload Speed might help a little, Tom. :]
Yeah, I've set it at 1kb/s.
I use Demonoid and Pirate Bay; they both have a pretty good selection of music torrents. The client I've always used is uTorrent which is pretty nice... if you go to 'Help' >> 'About uTorrent' then press 'T' a tetris game comes up
I use uTorrent and I get my torrents from Demonoid. I only download things every once in a while though.
QUOTE (Marc. @ Jul 23 2008, 06:40 AM)
Wow, you got a BSOD from a simple HTML website? I'd be looking at your Web browser or computer in general.
its ok now my computer was fucking up demonoid works now!
QUOTE (MrGreenDayUK @ Jul 24 2008, 08:13 AM)
Yeah, I've set it at 1kb/s.
I use Demonoid and Pirate Bay; they both have a pretty good selection of music torrents. The client I've always used is uTorrent which is pretty nice... if you go to 'Help' >> 'About uTorrent' then press 'T' a tetris game comes up
I use Demonoid and Pirate Bay; they both have a pretty good selection of music torrents. The client I've always used is uTorrent which is pretty nice... if you go to 'Help' >> 'About uTorrent' then press 'T' a tetris game comes up
That's probably the reason why you have slow download speeds...
One of the principle bittorrent works on is "tit-for-tat", the more you upload the more you download....
I use uTorrent aswell, and for sources, either BTjunkie or Mininova. Works excellent for me, the more seeds the torrent has, the faster it's gonna download.
Does anyone here have a Demonoid 'invitation code' they'd like to fire at me? Pretty please!
i use utorrent. i dont really know whats the difference but ive heard its better. and as long as i get what i want, it doesnt matter.
i get the torrents from tpb. id like to join demonoid but everytime i go there they're not open for registrations. i read they open them on certain weekends, so i'll be on the lookout.
and does anyone know how to upload faster?
i get the torrents from tpb. id like to join demonoid but everytime i go there they're not open for registrations. i read they open them on certain weekends, so i'll be on the lookout.
and does anyone know how to upload faster?
Demonoid - they have open registrations every friday.... So just wait and join
For speeding up uploads and downloads - check this calculator, it should give you a basic info how to set things in a good way..
For speeding up uploads and downloads - check this calculator, it should give you a basic info how to set things in a good way..
isohunt is all i need 
(well utorrent in genereal i guess)
(well utorrent in genereal i guess)
Thought I could post a little explanation as why you get better speeds when you upload faster, here is a part of protocol specification concerning choking:
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Downloaders generally download pieces in random order, which does a reasonably good job of keeping them from having a strict subset or superset of the pieces of any of their peers.
Choking is done for several reasons. TCP congestion control behaves very poorly when sending over many connections at once. Also, choking lets each peer use a tit-for-tat-ish algorithm to ensure that they get a consistent download rate.
The choking algorithm described below is the currently deployed one. It is very important that all new algorithms work well both in a network consisting entirely of themselves and in a network consisting mostly of this one.
There are several criteria a good choking algorithm should meet. It should cap the number of simultaneous uploads for good TCP performance. It should avoid choking and unchoking quickly, known as 'fibrillation'. It should reciprocate to peers who let it download. Finally, it should try out unused connections once in a while to find out if they might be better than the currently used ones, known as optimistic unchoking.
The currently deployed choking algorithm avoids fibrillation by only changing who's choked once every ten seconds. It does reciprocation and number of uploads capping by unchoking the four peers which it has the best download rates from and are interested. Peers which have a better upload rate but aren't interested get unchoked and if they become interested the worst uploader gets choked. If a downloader has a complete file, it uses its upload rate rather than its download rate to decide who to unchoke.
Choking is done for several reasons. TCP congestion control behaves very poorly when sending over many connections at once. Also, choking lets each peer use a tit-for-tat-ish algorithm to ensure that they get a consistent download rate.
The choking algorithm described below is the currently deployed one. It is very important that all new algorithms work well both in a network consisting entirely of themselves and in a network consisting mostly of this one.
There are several criteria a good choking algorithm should meet. It should cap the number of simultaneous uploads for good TCP performance. It should avoid choking and unchoking quickly, known as 'fibrillation'. It should reciprocate to peers who let it download. Finally, it should try out unused connections once in a while to find out if they might be better than the currently used ones, known as optimistic unchoking.
The currently deployed choking algorithm avoids fibrillation by only changing who's choked once every ten seconds. It does reciprocation and number of uploads capping by unchoking the four peers which it has the best download rates from and are interested. Peers which have a better upload rate but aren't interested get unchoked and if they become interested the worst uploader gets choked. If a downloader has a complete file, it uses its upload rate rather than its download rate to decide who to unchoke.
my utorrent thing is running fine, and downloading quite well,
but it's slowing the rest of my internet up.
is this normal?
my utorrent thing is running fine, and downloading quite well,
but it's slowing the rest of my internet up.
is this normal?
but it's slowing the rest of my internet up.
is this normal?
my utorrent thing is running fine, and downloading quite well,
but it's slowing the rest of my internet up.
is this normal?
I use uTorrent but it does take a few days for any large file to download.
QUOTE (one8two @ Jul 26 2008, 01:39 PM)
my utorrent thing is running fine, and downloading quite well,
but it's slowing the rest of my internet up.
is this normal?
but it's slowing the rest of my internet up.
is this normal?
You probably just need to set the speed correctly so it won't use all your bandwith - 90% of your total speed usually works well
Other problem that might cause this is the number of connections it creates - how many torrents do you have in it?
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