anyone here use BitTorrent

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: LS20
ive actually used bt experimental and one other alternate (runs off dos window) ...the latter was horrible, and the experimental one apparently does not throttle correctly... i set the max to 3KB/s and it still churns at 11KB/s. o well, guess ill have to give BT++ a try.

but i never ever ever got the 100+KB/s ppl talk about, though, even with popular files?

ive only seen over 100k/s once and that was on a 2 meg file someone on here hoasted.

i generally get around 50k/s just finished teh Ninja scroll Dl averaged around 60k/s

 

[m2kewl]

BT rocks...you just need to rtfm and do some research

 

[murphy55d]

The BBC released an article which AFAIK scared all the good BT sites into reclusion. Don't know for how long though.

 

[Vernor]

What cand you find there that you can't with Emule or Kaazalite ?

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: Vernor
What cand you find there that you can't with Emule or Kaazalite ?

Proper iso rips that aren't renamed games. Why people do that is beyond me, afterall it wastes their bandwidth too.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: Aceshigh

Those let you throttle the upload and download bandwidth. Works great for me now.

Of course, if everyone goes and dials down their upload speed, it defeats the purpose of distributing the downloading burden and we might as well go back to downloading stuff from overloaded centralized servers.

Depending on the files you're trying to get, download speed may very well exceed upload speed. This is particularly true for "older" files, and it will very likely be true even as the download process proceeds, since the opportunity to serve more chunks of the file will likely grow faster than the opportunity to download more of them. Especially if people are artificially cutting back their upload bandwidth.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Vernor
What cand you find there that you can't with Emule or Kaazalite ?

animen ISOs and TV erps

they get on torrent liek 10 min after the show airs. teh anime fansubs are up just a few hours after the showe. and if you look on kazaa teh eps you are getting are ones that were first gotten on BT then shared on kazaa

 

[rh71]

I agree with the fact that the release of the throttle-able BT clients has killed many of the fast connections we used to get. I personally DO use the throttle client because I'm capped at 18KBps upload and there'd be no way for me to surf if all 18KBps were taken up... just give yourself 5-10KBps and give the rest away... don't throttle down all the way to 3KBps.