Which version of bittorrent do you use?

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5489

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what makes azureus good? i just use the experimental, and it does what it needs to do, but should i switch to azureus?
 

Anubis

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well non right now. my school blocks the ports for Bt, Kazaa, MIRC, ... everything, hell even AIM transfers dont work to people on campus

only thing that works is DC+= because it purley internal, if i dndnt set it up we woudl have nothing

at home i use Shadows BT or ABC
 

Dulanic

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Originally posted by: 5489
what makes azureus good? i just use the experimental, and it does what it needs to do, but should i switch to azureus?

Multiple torrents at once, you can set priority, I commonly run 4-5 torrents at once, and it lets you know your seed ration.... you should never leave a torrent before its 1, and it shows you how many peers and seeds connected to the tracker, not just connected to you, like shadows etc...

Oh ya and if you have a firewall you only need to open one port, it will route ALL the torrents through one port unlike running multiple instances of shadows etc..
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Dulanic
Originally posted by: 5489
what makes azureus good? i just use the experimental, and it does what it needs to do, but should i switch to azureus?

Multiple torrents at once, you can set priority, I commonly run 4-5 torrents at once, and it lets you know your seed ration.... you should never leave a torrent before its 1, and it shows you how many peers and seeds connected to the tracker, not just connected to you, like shadows etc...

Oh ya and if you have a firewall you only need to open one port, it will route ALL the torrents through one port unlike running multiple instances of shadows etc..

ABC does the exact same things
 

tallest1

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Originally posted by: AznMaverick
reason i'm asking is because i'm using 3.2.1b CVS experimental (which is probably the problem) and it keeps crashing my computers. It literally just turns it off and reboots, i've also tried another versio but it couldn't connect all the time, just wondering what you guys use...


I'm pretty sure it because of the network card in your computer. Theres one or two makes of network cards that bittorrent simply does not like. I replaced my card (which was one of the cards bittorrent doesn't like) and everything is good now.
 

Crappopotamus

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Originally posted by: virtueixi
Now the question is: Where do you download from?:D

i just did the whole port forwarding thing and basically have it set up. but now im all dressed up with nowhere to go. WHAT DO I DO NOW!? (pm me)
 

imported_Phil

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Azureus, because of the queueing stuff and the absurd amount of information. Which, being a geeky type of person, I thrive on.