Scots Taffer on 6/11/2006 at 01:13
I use μtorrent for all my illegal download needs! :thumb:
Mortal Monkey on 6/11/2006 at 01:33
In our country we are not allowed to trust the Swedes.
Uncia on 6/11/2006 at 07:45
Quote Posted by Renegen
First you need to download the torrent file and launch it with UTorrent, second my only experience with that one is that it's a lot slower and revs up slower than Azureus which I like a lot more.
Weird, it starts up pretty much instantly for me. As one'd expect from a what, 200KB program? Tiny thing.
Jeshibu on 6/11/2006 at 12:51
I think he means that the download speed doesn't go up as fast as it does for him in Azureus. Can't think of anything else that would be slow about it, because Azureus feels like one of the bloatiest programs ever. Probably because of their insistence on using Java for programming the thing.
Uncia on 6/11/2006 at 14:37
Sounds like a configuration issue to me, rather than one of the software itself. While this may not be the case, far too many people treat P2P clients as something you install and never configure, then complain about their speeds being shit and their computers lagging.
The Alchemist on 6/11/2006 at 14:46
Many newer users to the torrent scene don't realize that if you don't cap or at least put a reasonable limit to your upload, you saturated your bandwidth and it cripples your download. Similarly, some programs throttle your download in ratio to your upload cap, but I don't think utorrent does that. So just put something reasonable. I have a 25kbps upload so I cap it at like 10.
system shocker on 6/11/2006 at 14:49
My torrents run fast when I cap them at 5 kilobytes
Uncia on 6/11/2006 at 14:58
I cap mine at half my total upload speed, it seems to get the best results. Heck, I tend to play MMORPGs at the same time without noticeable difference.
Also, if you're running Service Pack 2 and you're not completely computer illiterate you might want to poke around on how to get the built-in connection limit increased. BT has no problems reaching the 10-connections-at-a-time default limit.
dj_ivocha on 6/11/2006 at 15:48
It's actually 10 half-open connections, and they don't stay like that forever - they either time out or the other peer accepts the request and they turn into normal connections, for which the limit is far higher than 10 (you can still tweak it to even higher values though, but I think the default SP2 value is something like 500 (at least).
Tweaking the 10 half-open connections will only (possibly) help with connecting to all the peers faster, in the end that makes little difference. For example when I start a torrent with some 200+ peers, even with the 10 connection limit I still manage to connect to all of them in less than say 5 minutes.
