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If someone could recommend a good FOSS torrent client for Windows, I'd hop on it in a second.

Have you tried BitTornado? It's actually quite OK - functional but not overburdened with crap - and is widely included in Linux distributions. The Windows binary and Python source (also for Linux) are available from http://www.bittornado.com/
You could do a lot worse (e.g. Vuze [pukes copiously]).

8,000 leechers, 4 seeders, your download will complete in 1 day, 17 hours, 49 minutes.

Until one of the seeders' BitTorrent clients detects a severe acute underseed and automatically turns on superseed mode for an hour. Would that help clear things up?

Yeah the torrents http://bittornado.com/torrents/Dimensions-English.torrent are sort of slow. If you're in, hang in there.

http://bittornado.com/torrents/Dimensions-English.torrent

BitTorrent download for all the (English) movie files on the source website.

And speaking of the full videos...

http://bittornado.com/torrents/Dimensions-English.torrent

BitTorrent download for all the movies.

http://bittornado.com/torrents/Thicker-Than-Blood.pdf.torrent

Sorry about the off-topic reply, just trying to help people w/ their slow download.

That's what BitTorrent is for.

http://bittornado.com/torrents/Thicker-Than-Blood.pdf.torrent

http://www.bittornado.com/

There, that should tide us over for a while.

If you're having troubles with your Internet connection slowing down a bunch while using Bittorrent, you probably need to cap its upload speed. As of a long time ago, you couldn't do this with the official client (maybe you can now; I haven't checked). Try getting Bittornado which will allow you to limit the speed at which it uploads and should allow you to use it without monopolizing your bandwidth.

• uTorrent (BitTorrent, Windows)
• Azureus (BitTorrent, Java)
• BitTornado (BitTorrent, Windows/Linux/BSD)
• KTorrent (BitTorrent, Linux/BSD/Mac)
• eMule (eDonkey, Windows)
• aMule (eDonkey, Linux/BSD/Mac/Windows)
• FrostWire (Gnutella, Java)
• Cabos (Gnutella, Java)
• Shareaza (Gnutella2/Gnutella1/eDonkey, Windows)
• Ares (Ares, Windows)
• DC++ (DirectConnect, Windows)
• RevConnect (DirectConnect, Windows)
• Valknut (DirectConnect, Linux/BSD/Mac)

http://bittornado.com/torrents/bluemoon.mp4.torren t

http://bittornado.com/torrents/Code%20Monkey.mp3.t orrent

Here is a tip. Get Bittornado.

Then uninstall bittorrent and use it instead. Then when you are downloading torrents, change the settings from "automatic" to "dsl/cable slow" (unless you have a 2 way 10mb pipe).

ABC is built on top of BitTornado, which means that ABC'll implement trackerless torrents when Shad0w'll have it implemented in Tornado

as it doesn't mention the plethora of brilliant '3rd party' clients like Azureusand BitTornado which have been offering a variety of these features for a very long time.

My main gripe with the default BT client is the lack of per file settings. BitTornado (site's down at the moment) allows the user to download specific files in the torrent. This is useful since people can post aggregated torrents and the user can just select the files that he wants.

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BitTornado is another nice client, with the added benefit that it's not written in Java. Not that I've got much against Java personally, of course, but it's quite a resource hog that I'd rather avoid when possible.

I hope that was a joke, but i'll bite.
bittornado? or any of the plethora of BT clients? Bittornado offers much more config options than the standard BT client. I only remember using the official client for a few weeks, before switching to Bittornado(it was the Shad0w's experimental back then).

It's not as simple as just installing the application, and "away you go!" Sadly.

You need to take some time to learn about how it works. Try this page:
LickMyTaint

It's a start. You will have to configure your firewall and/or router with the proper port configuration.

Just a hint - use port numbers above 50000. It took me the longest time to figure that one out.

Also bittornado is currently the best app. to use. Find it here:
BitTornado

Frank

That's your problem - your upload was choking your download. Use a client like Shadow's Bittornado http://www.bittornado.com/ and throttle your upload speed.

The reason why the "extra long tail" is so amazingly long is because the authors are merging two different types of BitTorrent usage. BitTorrent was designed for legitimate content, and for content distributors to run their own trackers. For example, my tracker is used just to distribute my own projects. Distribution is off the main website, with only one torrent shown. This is an example of BT's legitimate use, and even the largest legitimate BitTorrent sites pale in comparison to the piracy sites. There, you'll see much higher numbers of torrents, and few servers that only distribute small numbers of torrents.

No idea if there's anything to permanently ignore a client that's pumping out nothing but junk, though

BitTornado has a feature for kicking/banning peers who constantly upload junk to you.

If you're using Bram's official BT client, and there's a peer that's uploading junk, your download won't get corrupted, it'll just waste your bandwidth.

There were a few issues with my software that needed me to consider multi-user access under Windows, especially as I was adding new features; when these features finally came to fruition, I modified my software, sticking preferences, application and temporary data either under the user's "Application Data" folder in "Documents and Settings" in Windows, or in a dotted directory under *nix. I thought this was an elegant solution.

So what happened? People yelled at me. Why was I polluting their system, putting files all over the place? Why couldn't I have kept it the way it was?

You just can't win...

Plenty of BT clients allow you to set the maximum upload rate. Example: BitTornado, downloadable here: http://bittornado.com/

"With trackers, you can not. Not yet. Because the protocol doesn't support it."

You're wrong on four counts:

1) Yes, you CAN do this with trackers.
2) Right now
3) Because the protocol (unofficially) supports it
4) Some groups (such as BTEfnet) are doing this now, without relying on the above spec.

They're using the exact same technique used by http servers, DNS load balancing. A tracker is just a special case of an http server.

Make that link bittornado.com

Azureus works great on many platforms, as it is written in Java. However, some of the windows users I know have complained that they download slower on it, for some reason. I have no explanation for it, other than perhaps because it tries to use one port for incoming connections. Anyway, another good client, which I recommended if you're not running multiple torrents, is Bit Tornado, which has alot of options and monitoring features, plus it is open source!

I am the lead coder of a BitTorrent client. A few months back I began to receive reports of ISPs either blocking or severely throttling the upstream (to a point where the protocol became non-functional) of BitTorrent connections. As a result, I modified my codebase to by default choose a server port randomly, rather than within the default BitTorrent port range.

Lately, I've gotten more reports indicating that these ISPs that have been blocking BitTorrent have been using more sophisticated methods of detecting the protocol, by apparently sniffing the initial protocol handshake.

My response was this letter. The next iteration of the BitTorrent protocol is already being planned, and if this sort of behavior spreads, the new protocol's handshake will be made nearly impossible to sniff out. Yes, it's true BitTorrent is being misused for trading pirated content, but it's also being used for good purposes, such as publishing Linux distros, and in some cases it is practically impossible to obtain content without doing so via BitTorrent.

This will of course make it difficult to meter how much network traffic is being used by BitTorrent, or to throttle it moderately, but the purpose of BitTorrent is to distribute content, and all other concerns come second.

It is REALLY easy. Using Bit Tornado, an improved version of the original Bit Torrent client, you only have to click on "Advanced" and get a list of EVERYONE that is connected to a particular torrent.

Some of the newer bit torrent clients like Bit Tornado and Azereus will allow you to set the priority for downloading specific files within a torrent. You could set your first CD as low priority or not to download and have it work on fetching the others.

You might even be able to fool bit torrent into thinking that the file for CD1 is done by copying it into the folder it creates for Mandrake 10.1 Beta.

Either way you'll help out the BT network

Sounds like you don't have your ports set up right. Check to see if you are making any connections on ports 6881-6999. If you have them firewalled off, it can greatly slow down your transfer rate. BT always maxes out my connection.

Another thing you can do is get your hands on the BitTornado client. If there is a green light, then everything is set up right.
I'm pretty sure that there is a version in Debian Sarge right now. It gives a lot more control and information than the regular BitTorrent package.

The bittorrent client available at ei.kefro.st is banned on many trackers because it's over a year outdated. Use BitTornado instead.

Console is different than a terminal.

I regularly use 2 kinds of gui apps, web browsers and the MacOS finder.

I prefer the power of the commandline and I can do the same things with the same commands on just about any OS beit my Mac, Linux, or Solaris.

For torrents I use Bittornado. I have a better question, how do you run a program that is determined to be run from a tty in the background? Bittornado in the background says something like "tty suspended" or somehting when I background it. Please provide any insights into this.

I have burned CDs for years using cdrecord under Linux, Windows, and my Mac. To me its the best way to burn a cd.

Ghesh, I could go on for hours with all of the little terminal apps that I use, including my aliases, shell functions, and scripts.

"Try disconnecting your router and connecting your computer straight to your uplink." on his forum.

If that works, here is the explanation as to why: "Some routers have been implicated in consistently corrupting data inside TCP packets, either when running in game mode or simply due to lousy firmware coding. They'll replace any instance of the external IP to the internal one for incoming data, and vice-versa for outgoing."

After I install the OS (Windows XP) and security updates:

1. Office 2003
2. Visual Studio .NET
3. SQL Server 2000 Desktop Edition
4. FileZilla
5. MSN Messenger
6. RSS Bandit
7. Photoshop 7
8. ActiveSync
9. Adobe Acrobat 6
10.BitTornado

Programs that come convienently bundled with XP
1. Internet Explorer
2. Windows Media Player
3. Folder Compression Zip Utility

Bit Torrent is spyware?

The official bittoreent client and the popular variations like abc and shadows are not spyware but there are a few around that have adware/spyware added. It's open source, opportunists are free to do that sort of thing.
You may have mispelled when searching like the people who end up at the fake site kazza.com instead of kazaa.com