What Bittorrent Client?? [again?]

[Jynks]

One of these posts again...

I was woundering what bit torrent client you all use... I have been using ABC for almost the entire time BT has been around. I am trying BitLord at the moment.

What do you recommend.. and also I never seam to get the speeds that BT is famous for.... like I go to mininova for the latest SG1, Battlestar and Atlantis, but I find that even with 1000+ seeds i only seam to get like 5-10K max???

Any ideas? Port problems? Prefrence Settings? etc etc etc?

[mxyzptlk]

I still use Torrent Storm,it's a bit dated but it works very fast for me so...
I always get my stargate somewhere between 100 & 200k

[spudthedestroyer]

Azereus has DHT (trackerless technology) so you can find seeds outside the tracker your connected to. I think bitcomet does too.

TDL who seeds a lot of torrents goes on about torrentstorm all the time.

What colour do you get btw? it should be green. If its yellow it could be a firewall problem, that being your blocking ports.

[maxpayne2409]

i use azureus too, usually it works fine but ive noticed recently when ive started a torrent its flown along at my full available speed for an hour or so then died to like 5k

[spudthedestroyer]

towards the end by any chance? Your probably hitting the point where only a few of the people your transferring from are seeds, ie. where the majority of the peers have no chunks.

[maxpayne2409]

no, all the way through, it makes downloading dvdr's a real pain in the backside, imagine downloading about 4gig at 5k

[Jynks]

hmmm, well I have been trying torrentstorm and azureus .... same speed problems.... mabey it is the sites I am useing.... .. . .

[spudthedestroyer]

you know, my torrents have all totally died on their asses, they go exceptionally slow now too

So much for my advice.

[Jynks]

heh heh ok.... anyone else not want me to ask these questions any more?

[maxpayne2409]

maybe the mpaa have struck fear into the hearts of bt users. except us clever ones that is

[spudthedestroyer]

don't think so, some stuff downloads really fast, but i'm getting some xbox games, and some movies that used to go reasonably fast. Totally dead, and then when they pick up speed they die again.

[maxpayne2409]

maybe its a bug in the latest java (if your client is java based like azureus) or possibly a bug in the latest version of your bt client? or maybe your isp just dont like you like ntl dont like any of they're existing customers

[spudthedestroyer]

nope, and nope. Nothings changed since it was working fine.
BSG is going at 50kb/s now anyway.

I dunno if bulldog will like me, they seem to not like most of their customers but i've not had a problem with them... looks like they are showing favouritism if anything.

[maxpayne2409]

your with bulldog? i tried joining them but the closest they come to scunthorpe is doncaster

[Jynks]

really? I got all the x08 eps for sg1 atlantis and battlestar from mininova and they are all coming down at like 5

[spudthedestroyer]

yup, well i guess mines not screwed then afterall

Out of interest, you see a green blob right? If its yellow its firewalled and you haven't configured ports, blue is connection problems, red is tracker problems.

That's general though, normal right however.

[Jynks]

a green blob... .. . on what app are you talking about now?

[maxpayne2409]

hes talking about bit torrent, mostly clients like bitlord, azureus etc

[Jynks]

what they all have theis same colour code... bitlord dosn't have anything like that that I can see..... .. . .

[spudthedestroyer]

all of them have it, yes... even simple one torrent per file applications. its how you tell if there's a problem.