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Best BT client?
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I don't think there's that much of a difference between the big clients. As long as you're not using the original one. 
I just got the latest ABC one and it's downloading Future Boy Conan with no problems and pretty fast. My only complain is that it lists total number of seeds/peers as question marks.
I just got the latest ABC one and it's downloading Future Boy Conan with no problems and pretty fast. My only complain is that it lists total number of seeds/peers as question marks.
crawlingpeter
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azureus is the only client i use religiously, so its the only i can recommend.
BitSpirit. It resembles Flashget, does what azeurus does without the heavy load.
http://www.bytelinker.com/intl/bs.htm
http://www.bytelinker.com/intl/bs.htm
Cerebral Palsy
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Mugen said:
Spiritreaver
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Trevelyon said:
I love you. I have always had that yellow connection thing and really slow downloads and didn't think much of it. But I tried forwarding the ports (I dunno why I never did that) and my downloads are all going at full speed and what not. I appreciate it.
norinrad21
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DarthWufei said:I love you. I have always had that yellow connection thing and really slow downloads and didn't think much of it. But I tried forwarding the ports (I dunno why I never did that) and my downloads are all going at full speed and what not. I appreciate it.
Sorry for my ignorance... but how did you do that? I'm such a newbe when is about firewalls, ports, routers, etc...
Spiritreaver
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Farore said:
I had to do it within my router, since it was what was blocking my connections. Basically it has an option to to do port forward per IP address. So I just had it forward ports 6881 to 6999. Things work really well now actually. Tomorrow I'll work on fixing them up for multiple PCs. So yeah, if you have a router you should ahve an option to forward ports somewhere in the configuration menu.
If you're behind a firewall, it should have the same options, but I'm not too sure how to do it in ICF or anything. Just Zonealarm sense it's pretty easy as there's an option to let certain ports be open or whatever. You just might have to google it.
DarthWufei said:
If you have XP you'll have the ICF, which is a weaksauce firewall that comes with XP, all you need to do with that is go into your network connection, select the current connection your using, then click the Advance tab>settings>then 'add' for the port/s you want forwarded & then you're rolling.
Buggy Loop
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I use bitcomet, tried pretty much all of them but i always go back to bitcomet.
Azureus is great feature wise, but its java, and seemingly pretty poorly optimised java, well for me anyway, it just eats memory.
I use shadows experiemental 'cause its simple and gets the job done, getting the ability to change bittorrent ports is the most important thing as ISPs have started trying to cut down peoples BT usage.
I use shadows experiemental 'cause its simple and gets the job done, getting the ability to change bittorrent ports is the most important thing as ISPs have started trying to cut down peoples BT usage.
I use ABC. I can't imagine Azureus being a bigger computer drain than this. It's not CPU time, it's disk access. On a 30GB 4200rpm laptyop drive with less than 10GB free, it takes a few minutes to run hash checks on each file, and it can cripple a lot of other processes if I'm working on like 5 files at a time. I'm really missing the speed and convenience of p2p progs like Kazaa, but then again, BT's content is much more reliable. No one's gonna seed a whole album of fake songs. PEACE.
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