what are your views on the seemingly genius idea?

Well i didnt like the offical program and most of the versions of Clients just arnt updated anymore . However i have found ABC Bit Torrent is an updated program every so often and seems much nice to me . Id try that

Address: http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/index.html

As reisyboy said the offical isn't that great although if I have to download something via BitTorrent I use Shareaza. Supports Bittorrent, Gnutella1, Gnutella2 and Edonkey and serves as a download manager.

Shareaza

As for the idea of Bittorrent, its pretty good, though sometimes they aren't enough people who share the file, making it hard to download.
Example: Autopatcher XP Update that I was trying to download yesterday. Only 2 users were sharing.

well, mines finally wrking now, but the person keeps disconnecting I think

what's the difference? I mean it's basically a download manager....why would you need a lot of extra features on it....we wouldn't want it to turn into another Adwarezilla/Spywarezilla like KaZaA, now would we

i just use the original. its not that big of an issue for me

I use the experiental client's (shadows). I don't use bittorrent too often because its not as secure as it could be.

Thanx, p2p sharing is all very dodgy is you ask me, but I still do it. Is it still a risk if you have a firewall program?

Yes, lol, firewalls don't do as much as you would think...

But they are better than nothing

NIMO... safe surfing, and you don't need a firewall at all really IMO.

I use shareaza as well.

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.why would you need a lot of extra features on it....we wouldn't want it to turn into another Adwarezilla/Spywarezilla like KaZaA, now would we

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BT is a very fast P2P program. It is very good for new stuff. But the one thing wrong with it is that it doesn't keep old stuff. Once the file gets a little bit old it disappears from the network.

I think Shareaza is crap. The Gnutella network sucks. And the Gnutella2 network will suck.

The Fasttrack network sucks. Kazaa has ruined it. Most things you download on Kazaa are either viruses or are corrupt files. Sig2dat stinks also. I don't like the magnet links either.

eMule is a very stable network for me. Its speeds aren't the best, but if there is any where you could find a rare file, it would be on eMule. eMule has corruption handling, meaning you'll never get a corrupt file do to downloading. The only way you would get a corrupt file is if the file that is being shared was corrupt to begin with.

Piolet is a very fast and reliable way to get your music. It is really good to find single releases, although you wont find all those rare or foriegn songs, like songs from NEK, etc.

And now to end with the best. mIRC. With sites like packetnews, xdccspy, etc there is no way you can't find anything on the mIRC network. mIRC has evolved and is now very fast and reliable. You wont get a corrupt file, unless you download and resume your download off another bot. The speeds are incredibly fast. Although this program is confusing at first. once you learn it you will be glad you spent your time in learning how to use this unique P2P/chat client.

Well those are my views, I hope you don't mind me adding more than just BT.

Remember this type of P2P discussion before Guido .

Newsgroups. All I have to say about that.

read article about people posting things as text then u have to string it together and reencode it or something person in mag said it was too complicated. Anyone use those sites?

Azureus is a good client! I don't like the original client...

BT and eMule are good for large files. BT especially for new/popular (downloading mandrake with it goes very good! )

I agree however i have found Bit Torrent to be unable to hold many peers to download off i have alot of trouble staying connected but with ABC it seems to be alot better than the normal client, probably usess some other ports ive not looked into it but yeh who knows

i find it sooo slow, could never get past 50kbps....needs more work

I use Azureus and it's better then almost everything else I've used. I especially like the new decentralized tracker feature, which I can use to distribute my stuff more easily, namely the MSN Messenger Pack

As for the idea of it, it's a fantastic one. It's a great way to share files, especially large files, and it's very reliable & fast if you have enough seeds.

I have some problems with torrents it seems , Azureus works well with speeds and all (They good be better but my isp is crap), But somehow after a couple of hours downloading my internet is gone... I have to restart my router and computer, also tried without router same happends... very strange

talk about bringing back old threads, this is over a year old

i use BitLord

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And now to end with the best. mIRC. With sites like packetnews, xdccspy, etc there is no way you can't find anything on the mIRC network. mIRC has evolved and is now very fast and reliable. You wont get a corrupt file, unless you download and resume your download off another bot. The speeds are incredibly fast. Although this program is confusing at first. once you learn it you will be glad you spent your time in learning how to use this unique P2P/chat client..

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Originally posted by MasterAssassin
i find it sooo slow, could never get past 50kbps....needs more work

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Azureus...don't know the site but google it, it's worth the effort ...nice gui but u've got to have Java J2SE Platform Installed ...i really like it

G3 Torrent

Came out of beta a while ago, my number one bittorrent client

• Open-source
  
• free (obviously)
  
• 0% bloat-factor
  
• fast
  
• clean, intuitive interface

Woohoo, solved my disconnection problem , it's kinda offtopic I know... But i thought this might be usefull...

My firewall cause some kind of loopback what made my internet to disconnect... So I turned it off... and Happy downloading

Btw... I'm using Panda Platinum, but I read it's a common problem with other firewalls too... like ZoneAlarm

I use also Azureus, very good program, BTW, having trouble with it.... cant fix the problem 'NAT error'. Checked WXP firewalls, ports.... nothing. Also I can never get passed 10KB/s of DL and I have DSL 512kbps. Any ideas?

Check your router. NAT makes it possible for multiple computers in your LAN (Local Area Network) to be seen by the "outside world" (WAN; Wide Area Network)) as one IP-address.

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Originally posted by YottabyteWIzard
I use also Azureus, very good program, BTW, having trouble with it.... cant fix the problem 'NAT error'. Checked WXP firewalls, ports.... nothing. Also I can never get passed 10KB/s of DL and I have DSL 512kbps. Any ideas?

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Im using bit comet... Also Azureus on the occasion, dam port forwarding.. i always have to do it.

Nice... thx... I didn't check the router ... now Azureus works better than ever