bittorrent files

[gunner6666]

can bittorrent files be posted, since there not the roms?

 

[Light]

if it stops at connecting to peers it's maybe cuz the torrent is dead ...or u have a firewall.. you can wait a few mins or hours and if you're still stuck.check the torrent and your connection.
also not all torrents give shitty speed.
for me like i'm trying F***ING hard to dl one piece 95 for like 1 week and i'm not even at 1%.. but when i dl naruto or games i usually finsh in like 5 hours.. so it basically depends on the torrent/luck/area/connection

 

[754boy]

Bittorrent is cool, I've gotten a whole lotta shit that I couldn't find anywhere else.

 

[Darkforce]

in BT usually there is no intelligence involved... you've got supernova and if it is not there you usually will not find it and they do not have poopies there because then the seed is really low nobody taking it.

I kinda disagree ...getting good d/l speeds in BT is easy as long as you pick a file that is recent so there is a good number of peers and hopefully has a reasonable peer to see ratio; that's obvious though, but it still suprises me to see several thousand people try to obtain a torrent seeded by a single person or even worse trying to download a file not being seeded at all. But yeah there are little tips and things that help with BT...

Personally I don't use SuprNova much since I rarely download much warez...more into anime myself. So yeah I don't know about other sites for warez and things but some sites eg. Boxtorrents, they offer a good up to date stats page for their files, along with user comments (good on finding out about the quality of the files and requesting seeders etc...) they also show how much the seeds have downloaded, how much the peers have uploaded and for for how long, plus how much of the file they are seeding (sometimes it's not uncommon to have peers seeding incomplete files on some sites)... obviously if you spend a minute looking at these sorts of figures on the page before deciding to download the file it certainly helps a lot.


Oh and yeah BT is cool... it's like P2P without the viruses, porn or queues. It's like IRC without the hassle or gay n00bs trying to harass you in the channels, it's like http without the bandwidth worries or crap d/l speeds and it's like DC++ without having to sacrifice half your hard drive to sharing files.

 

[shaunj66]

If you're getting bad speeds on bittorrent, make sure you have opened or forwarded the right ports on your router/modem/whatever.. (assuming you have one) and your firewall.

I used to get crappy speeds on bittorrent until I bothered to open the ports and it made a heck of a lot of difference.

I think the default ports most torrent clients use are TCP ports 6881-6889.

 

[Dragonlord]

anyways... ya still can't convince me

... i've got my experience with a couple of those so called p2p-wonders: BT, Kazaa, EDonkey and even some you don't know because you are not beos people but out of those i always returned to my mldonkey...
the only one i can run under console from my server over ssh2 and other means, driving it by a web interface and not having the hazzle of killing my machine with a kinda troublesome app.

might be different for you but if it comes to server usage mldonkey still owns.

 

[Chakal]

BT aren't working ok at my place....

I tried like 4 clients... and I have the same problem with all of them. My routers lose the connection with my internet provider... I don't know why, but it only disconnec when I start a BT file.

 

[Zendrik]

Someone said something about Shadow BT but I did a google and came up with BiTornado. I use Torrentopia and it works great but I want to look at this Shadow BT. Did it get a name change or am I looking in the wrong places?

 

[koentje3]

irc://irc.overdriveirc.net/contra

My pwn channal... get in there!

 

[gartlan]

Zinge88:

Bittornado is the new client by Shadow

http://bittornado.com/

Its a great client....

 

[Dragonlord]

OMFG!!!! wxPython... O M F G!!!

 

[gunner6666]

man dragonlord it sucks that you cant enjoy bt, but i guess you dont download anime or iso's so bt is probably not for you.

anyways gtg since i download about 5gigs of anime a day and have to watch it all

 

[Dragonlord]

uhm... if you refer to the post above this has to do with Python's window toolkit named wxPython. anything else is better than wxPython...

and if you refer to the other topic then no, i do not miss something... mldonkey rulez over bt in that way. it's the only thing running well on the server over ssh2 link and more i do not need...
although i do not need warez anymore since i've got linux...

 

[fireworkz]

uhm... i donno what people find interesing in BT? i only have troubles with that crap:
- it's damn slow (transfer speeds of 0.1 to 1 kbps are just a joke if i get up to 70kbps on http)
- it's unreliable (trackers always dropping connection)
- it's faulty (had at least one defect download)

facit: stay away from this crap. either use mldonkey (which works like a charm) or use IRC (which even works better once you know where to look)

I agree fully. I remember I went to this site that offered movie stuff available for download. The guy made a cool site on it. After paying him a small amount I was given the lead to a Bit Torrent site. What a joke , I was had. Anyways I tried the software and it really sucked. Just as mentioned above and I use HiSpeed Cable.
I remember the good ole Kazza Lite days and the Imesh days, fast and quite reliable.
Take Care
Fireworkz

 

[wabo]

Just downloaded a 7 gig file in 13 hours. not that slow to me. I can live with that kind of speed.

 

[Lily]

I love bitorrent.
i get amazing speed with it.
I love the system.

It can be used for legal files. It reduce the constrains of bandwith for the host. Lovely idea. Only problem is its so easy getting stuff now that it will be a big target soon.

It is remarkably easy to use, no doubt. All it involves is installing a tiny client, and clicking on links - even the newest internet users could be downloading via BT in no time. I disagree with you that it will be a target though. Suprnova is currently the big/well-known BT site, but there have been others before it and others after it. Due to the nature of torrents, and how they work, it's not just something that can be shut down/sued into bankruptcy, you know, standard industry tactics. Anybody can set up and host a tracker, and all it takes is other people willing to seed and share their bandwidth for it to continue long into the future.

I once thought that BT was going to collapse in on itself, because it relies on users uploading to be able to download. A few clients came out that managed to stop your upload while continuing the download, (true leeching) and I figured that would be the end of BT. However, BT survived that, and I'm sure it will survive for many years to come. It's the best way to share large amounts of files (be they legal or not) amongst a willing set of users without any one person having to put up all the bandwidth.

Yay, BT. There's all sorts of weird and interesting stuff I've accumlated via BT that hasn't been shared on other mediums for many years - that's why I like it.

 

[Dragonlord]

easy to use? when i started back then with bt it was even under windows an odysee until it worked... ie didn't eat it at all and mozilla neither. bt++ finally ate links but crashed all out of a sudden without reasons.

and one of the reasons why bt has died is because i've always had big uploads (which in turn block my line due to the way adsl connections are handled in my country *sad*) and i got nothing but 0.1k download for having 4k upload all time... nothing against sharing but if you are ripped all time you are fed up.

with mldonkey i do not have this problem.

and yeah... only if i will be able to find old and less common stuff on bt i will ever concider trying it again.

 

[jumpman17]

I just discovered a program called Azureus. It's a BT program and it really increases my download speeds.

 

[Lily]

and one of the reasons why bt has died is because i've always had big uploads (which in turn block my line due to the way adsl connections are handled in my country *sad*) and i got nothing but 0.1k download for having 4k upload all time... nothing against sharing but if you are ripped all time you are fed up.

I'm sorry to hear about your BT trouble!

I do understand that some users have a tough time with BT for exactly that reason - their lines have trouble with the up/down connection, or they just plain have a crummy/capped upload. Obviously BT isn't for everyone, but if you have a great connection, it's pretty fantastic. It's nice that older releases stick around so long, as long as people are seeding them. It actually allows some time to PLAY the junk I download before I go off and get something else.

 

[enarky]

easy to use? when i started back then with bt it was even under windows an odysee until it worked... ie didn't eat it at all and mozilla neither. bt++ finally ate links but crashed all out of a sudden without reasons.

and one of the reasons why bt has died is because i've always had big uploads (which in turn block my line due to the way adsl connections are handled in my country *sad*) and i got nothing but 0.1k download for having 4k upload all time... nothing against sharing but if you are ripped all time you are fed up.

with mldonkey i do not have this problem.

and yeah... only if i will be able to find old and less common stuff on bt i will ever concider trying it again.

Well, sucks to be you. Looks like you don't know your beloved MLDonkey all to well, 'cause then you'd know that MLDonkey isn't limited only to the eDonkey network for a long time now. MLDonkey not only supports BitTorrent, but Kazaa, Overnet and Gnutella protocolls, too. Soulseek and Direct Connect support is in development. Well, not bad, isn't it?

-- enarky

 

[Dragonlord]

enarky stop playing a smartass... i'm using a self compiled mldonkey on my server and i know damn well that it can speak all those and even more protocols but this doesn't help that the BT system itself is way slow and off... that's why i've not compiled support for that crap into it.