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#679909 - 10/01/06 11:50 PM bittorrent clients
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	one for the techy hoppers here: i'd like some recommendations for bittorrent clients please - one's you've used and liked and why this has nothing to do with the new psp i just bought cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679910 - 11/01/06 12:03 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Atar member Registered: 29/12/05 Loc: Leiden	Hey there, I'd go for Azureus, its a good client with a crapload of options. Just google on that name and you'll find it.
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#679911 - 11/01/06 01:56 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Atar]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	If you're interested in getting files though other P2P networks as well, you can use Shareaza (Shareaza.com) for torrents, ed2k and gnutella 1 & 2 downloads. I've found Azureus to be to bloated, but then again, I don't really use it enough to know whats good about it. Let us know what you settle on, and why! _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679912 - 11/01/06 02:21 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	What's bittorent? _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679913 - 11/01/06 07:32 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
drofkcah member Registered: 23/12/05 Loc: Derby UK	i use Bitcomet or utorrent, they alsi have a load of options _________________________ I am a sig virus place me in you sig so that i can continue to replicate Rgds Drofkcah
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#679914 - 12/01/06 04:42 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: drofkcah]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Cole: BitComet is the one I use. www.bitcomet.com Edit: No wait.. thats not the one I use, but seems to be better than the one I do... _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679915 - 12/01/06 04:45 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	What's bittorent??!! _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679916 - 12/01/06 04:53 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Appologies. Bittorrent, is kind of like kazaa and other file sharing programs. For the one I have used, and I think this is th ecase for all bittorrent clients, you have to look up the file you want to download ( www.thepiratebay.org is a good one), then once yo have downloaded that file (which only contains the information ABOUT the file you want such as the total file size and who on the internet has the file) you need to open it through the bittorrent client. This will then set about downloading the actual file you want, be it a movie or a rip of an album. I think thats about all the info you might want, but I probably forgetting something... _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679917 - 12/01/06 08:52 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	I've been looking for a file sharing program since winmx dissapeared, but can't find anything that doesn't require my credit card details! Any pointers in the right direction? Or an exe file by email perhaps? _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679918 - 12/01/06 09:26 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
Mint Sauce veteran Registered: 07/09/03 Loc: Lancs England	Azureus is king
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#679919 - 12/01/06 09:49 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Mint Sauce]
Mr_Chutney Tosser Registered: 18/04/03 Loc: Herefordshire	Azureus is good and Java based, which I like. BTW Dunc, winmx is still alive IF you get some cheeky patch that makes it use other servers/ settings etc. My step father is something of a number one hits merchant and has been usinf win mx for aaaaages. Once it went down he found out about a sneeky patch and he's still going!
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#679920 - 12/01/06 10:03 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Mr_Chutney]
Stout Pooh-Bah Registered: 12/05/04 Loc: Canada	Winmx, may still be alive, but it's not what it used to be. I hoping more people find out and install the patch and it'll recover to it's former glory.
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#679921 - 12/01/06 11:55 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Stout]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	Can't fine lime wire without having to give credit card details and pay my 99p per month. I have no idea where to find a winmx patch that acatually works either _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679922 - 12/01/06 12:01 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	no it works now. WICKED! _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679923 - 12/01/06 12:11 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
Mr_Chutney Tosser Registered: 18/04/03 Loc: Herefordshire	Good stuff
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#679924 - 12/01/06 12:19 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Mr_Chutney]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	Dunc, try Shareaza.com _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679925 - 12/01/06 01:21 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
Stout Pooh-Bah Registered: 12/05/04 Loc: Canada	You got Winmx working I presume? if not the patch is available through these guys. http://www.slyck.com/ I didn't have much success with shareazza, but there seems to be something going on with either my ISP, or antivirus software ,, something to do with tcp ports. I could get a feeble amount of search results, but I never managed to actually download anything.
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#679926 - 12/01/06 01:24 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Stout]
Mint Sauce veteran Registered: 07/09/03 Loc: Lancs England	I use the basic package it�s free and dose me fine I tried Shareaza.com yesterday seemed I have to wait ages in a cue to download anything _________________________ before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
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#679927 - 18/01/06 03:03 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Mint Sauce]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	hi everyone and thanks for your comments and reccomendations. i chose azureus in the end. main reasons being the good help files (there's a wiki dedicated to it) and that it had some nice display options i'm still having 'nat' problems (presumably cos i've not set up my norton firewall properly) and thus only get yellow smiley faces when i really want to see green ones but it seems to be downloading stuff okay so i'm just ignoring that for now. toby - i have used kazaa, winmx, gnutella in the past but i'm pretty sure that anything other than bittorrent would be useless for finding the type of files i am looking for now. cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679928 - 18/01/06 10:10 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Chickpea mostly a muppet in need of distraction... Registered: 10/07/05 Loc: bristol	if you're using azureus then www.torrentspy.com (my fave) www.thepiratebay.org (already mentioned) and www.mininova.org are all good sites to get your torrents from. havent found a site thats good for really obscure stuff yet though. B x _________________________ Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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#679929 - 18/01/06 11:02 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Chickpea]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	they're exactly the sites i've been using isohunt is good too but seems to have almost identical info to torrentspy. i downloaded a snes emulator last night which rocks plus i got a ripper/converter pack with dvd ripper and a converter for video to psp so i can watch all my movies on the go (when the psp eventually turns up...). it also included a .mov converter which should come in quite handy too. cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679930 - 19/01/06 01:21 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
KJ2356 member Registered: 11/04/05 Loc: Tasmania	hmmm... just use torrents for torrents but if you want a good file sharing software go for Bearshare its pretty good. _________________________ I cry when angels deserve to die.
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#679931 - 19/01/06 01:56 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: KJ2356]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	Written by: KJ2356 hmmm... just use torrents for torrents but if you want a good file sharing software go for Bearshare sorry, i don't quite get that... torrents are simply a way of cleverly disributing large files are they not? torrent clients are filesharing programs just as much as bearshare is but they operate on the bitorrent network instead of the gnutella network (which is accessed using gnutella clients like limewire and bearshare). cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679932 - 19/01/06 10:48 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Lavatwilight old hand Registered: 11/08/04 Loc: Wellington somerset, UK	use www.torrentz.com and it searches all of the the torrent sties _________________________ Drawings by chalk minds, strech between the stars Kyle Mclean- Contact without dance is like sex without wiggling. A) it does feel as good B) it does not look as good on film
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#679933 - 19/01/06 12:56 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Lavatwilight]
KJ2356 member Registered: 11/04/05 Loc: Tasmania	yes but main filesharing programs such as Limewire and Bearshare dont use torrents and as i found has a much larger selection of things. mostly depending on your internet connection i would say. and im babling again someone shoot me before i start talking about Llamas! too late! did you know Llama backwards is amalL? what? what was that bush? because my names Amall im a terrorist? but its Llama spelt backwards! no you cant eat the kitty! bad! hit _________________________ I cry when angels deserve to die.
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#679934 - 19/01/06 01:44 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: KJ2356]
polarity veteran Registered: 16/05/05 Loc: on the wrong planet	www.emule-project.net www.amule.org www.mldonkey.org I go for the open source programs because they don't; eat all your bandwidth, share all your files, spam you with ads, cost money. eMule is simple enough, and so long as you can leave your computer running for ages (so you don't loose your place in download queues) can saturate your download bandwidth when doing a dozen files. You can always set limits on up/download though (and schedule limits so it can go full throttle overnight, but let you DL other stuff during the day) aMule is a bit simpler and runs on macs too, and mldonkey is the mutts nutts, as it supports practically every P2P protocol in existance, the only problem being it's for Linux/BSD/OSX/Cygwin, and takes a bit more work to get going. BTW eMule found your file. _________________________ You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence. Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.
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#679935 - 22/01/06 01:23 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	Written by: coleman torrents are simply a way of cleverly disributing large files are they not? Yes, I'm thinking about setting up a bittorrent server for HoP files...if anyone wants to help me out PM me... _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679936 - 28/01/06 03:11 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	I now think this is the best one to download. _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679937 - 28/01/06 11:22 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Mint Sauce]
mech Carpal \'Tunnel Registered: 09/06/03 Loc: "In your ear"	erm, can we e clear here that you guys are not going to be sharing files illegally, as this is agsinst the rules of the HOPbb. And that you will only be using this P2P software to download files that contain no copyrights to them at all, like share ware progs, and trial software, and that of course you will, once the trial has run out, go out and buy the prog..... _________________________ Step (el-nombrie)
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#679938 - 30/01/06 08:59 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: mech]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Obviously. _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679939 - 31/01/06 12:14 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	whareabouts in the rules does it say we're not allowed to discuss illegal filesharing...? not that i have suggested that i would be doing something like that, but i couldn't actually find anything that prohibits us talking about it here... cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679940 - 31/01/06 03:34 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
mech Carpal \'Tunnel Registered: 09/06/03 Loc: "In your ear"	erm here... Written by: You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. This includes agreeing not to promote the unsafe practice of using fire whilst under the influence of drugs or alcohol. as file sharing of copyrighted files is illegal, then youw oudl be breaking this provise, that you have sid you would adheir to by using the board.... site rules section - Unsuitable posts, photos and videos and while i know it does not in detali say, you may not talk about file sahring, illegal or legal, if malcome was prosecuted for allowing , after a sort, you guys to talk about this on his site, without stopping you, it would mean that he would face large fines, for promoting file sharing, as some other boards have done, and im not saying its true, or not, but they could potentially use isp tracing frommals hop srv to track down some other the users on here and prosecture them to.... not being vendictiv cole, just know that these progs work on a series of ports, and its very easy (with lots of time) for an isp to now track the usage of these programmes. _________________________ Step (el-nombrie)
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#679941 - 31/01/06 03:56 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: mech]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	funny thing is, until your post mech, there was no suggestion of illegal activity at all... and talking about illegal filesharing is a very different thing to actually doing it. we discuss things such as illegal drugs and terrorism in the discussion threads but we don't do it. worse, there are files hosted in the hop gallery and hundreds linked to on the board that breach copyright laws and nothing is ever mentioned... all the p2p networks and clients discussed here are legal so i didn't really see any problem. if someone had started making a listing of where to find illegal copies of software/movies/music i agree, that would be bad, but that isn't what this thread is about at all and yes jonnny mutorrent rocks and i have indeed switched to it myself. cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679942 - 31/01/06 04:08 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	There are links to fileshareing networks on the thread. On DrBoo's thread there is a link to a search result. It's best to stay on the safe side don't you think? Mech is right about forums being shut down (I admit, they have been much worse than this) and I don't want Malcolm to get in to any leagal problems because of this (However much I doubt it'll happen) _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679943 - 31/01/06 05:12 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	the links are to legal networks (or to legal search results on those networks) no? i still reckon this thread is pretty damn clean but accepted anyway - it is better to be safe then sorry. cheers for looking out mech (and sym). i have reported this thread to malcolm, admin and the mods so they can decide to edit if required cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679944 - 31/01/06 07:10 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
mech Carpal \'Tunnel Registered: 09/06/03 Loc: "In your ear"	does this mean for once imight have been right there is a first time didnt wan tto be a party pooper, just making sure mal , or you guys dont get in trouble _________________________ Step (el-nombrie)
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#679945 - 31/01/06 07:27 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
DrBoo I invented the decaffinated coffee table. Registered: 10/10/05 Loc: Cornwall	Written by: Sym There are links to fileshareing networks on the thread. On DrBoo's thread there is a link to a search result. I'm scared now If anyone is going to hunt me down on the basis of this: I didn't do it. I promise And I didn't even think about doing it And you can't prove I did. scampers away to hide out _________________________ Boo x I intend to live forever - so far, so good. If it costs "a penny for your thoughts", but people give you their "two-pence worth", who is getting the extra penny?
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#679946 - 31/01/06 07:33 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: DrBoo]
onewheeldave Carpal \'Tunnel Registered: 28/08/02 Loc: sheffield	Written by: mech does this mean for once imight have been right there is a first time didnt wan tto be a party pooper, just making sure mal , or you guys dont get in trouble I wouldn't go so far as to say you were right: but...definitly... less wrong than usual Keep it up- you're getting there. _________________________ "You can't outrun Death forever. But you can make the Bastard work for it." --MAJOR KORGO KORGAR, "Last of The Lancers" AFC 32 Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
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#679947 - 31/01/06 08:36 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	Written by: coleman we discuss things such as illegal drugs and terrorism in the discussion threads but we don't do it. Exactly! ping _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679948 - 31/01/06 09:11 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Pong _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679949 - 31/01/06 12:15 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
bender still can't believe it's not butter Registered: 14/11/01 Loc: Melbourne, Australia	it's all about emule baby! ... and to a lesser extent a diet high in fibre. _________________________ Laugh Often, Smile Much, Post lolcats Always
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#679950 - 31/01/06 12:53 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: bender]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	UCOF and Bender recommend: _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679951 - 28/03/06 11:24 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	so anyway, moving onto topic. And hoping Mech isn't reading I was hunting the web for stuff and found a link to a file I wanted via a torrent client thing. So I pressed it and the default program to open it with was bitlord that aparently I already had on my computer So i opened it through bitlord and WOW! !!! What an amazing download speed!! I got a whole album in minutes instead of days and yesterday watched the southpark where they kill chef and it downloaded in 5 minutes!! FIVE MINUTES!! I'm never going back to winmx now, all that queue management is rubbish in comparison. Now if only I had more than 200meg left of my 160gig I'd be getting right jiggy with it (legal files only of course ) _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679952 - 29/03/06 02:03 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
dream currently mending Registered: 15/07/03 Loc: Bristol	While this thread has only talked about doing things that infringe on copyright law... How many of you have paid the musicians licence fees for soundtracks to the videos you make? _________________________ He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Nietzsche
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#679953 - 29/03/06 02:18 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	indeed, that is exactly what i was alluding to when i said this: Written by: coleman worse, there are files hosted in the hop gallery and hundreds linked to on the board that breach copyright laws and nothing is ever mentioned... on a related note, i'm already bored of downloading tv programmes illegally (not that i do ) i had to d/l three massive files that claimed to be 'lost season 2 episode 11' before i got one that actually was what it claimed to be grrrr i want a tv licence invented for 'download only' viewers and for all the major networks to create an itunes-like system for buying your tv shows on-demand. please cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679954 - 29/03/06 08:43 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: dream]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	Written by: dream While this thread has only talked about doing things that infringe on copyright law... How many of you have paid the musicians licence fees for soundtracks to the videos you make? About as many times as you've paid the licence whenever you've lent, borrowed, put onto tape etc or played it for others to listen to _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679955 - 29/03/06 08:12 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
FireByNite Are you up for it?? Registered: 08/12/04 Loc: Auckland	Com-on. Has everyone always obeyed copyright laws to the letter? Surely some people can remember being younger and taping off their favourite songs off the radio? Strictly speaking that's an infringement of copyright ---------------------------------------------------------- P2P user & proud of it _________________________ Are you up for it? ;)
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#679956 - 30/03/06 04:08 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: KJ2356]
nearly_all_gone Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/08/04 Loc: Southampton	Bitcomet, as almost everyone I know uses it. Never had any problems with it, plus the fact it comes with links to torrent portals in its own browser makes searching pretty easy. _________________________ What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant. Thoreau
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#679957 - 30/03/06 09:25 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: nearly_all_gone]
Ry Gromit's Humble Squire Registered: 02/02/05 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	I've just been using the original Bittorent client. Not much in the way of options or extras, but I like it simple. I think the more important question is which site do you get your torrents from. I tend to use www.isohunt.com It's found most of the things I've been looking for, but I'm sure it's not the 'best'.
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#679958 - 30/03/06 09:34 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Ry]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	mentioned here on the last page by lavatwilight, torrentz.com is a tracker tracker (if you see what i mean). i'm still using mutorrent as my client. the only drawback so far is that it doesn't let me set priority on specific files within a torrent. but seeing as i'm not generally in a rush to download, its not that much of a problem really cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679959 - 30/03/06 10:22 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Ry Gromit's Humble Squire Registered: 02/02/05 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Hey thanks for pointing that out both of you. Just checked it out and it looks so much more promising than my usual tracker..
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#679960 - 09/04/06 03:49 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: KJ2356]
ThePissedHippie newbie Registered: 07/04/06 Loc: arkansas	lol go azerus it works for me andi t has options . also try these sites for toorents www.mininova.org,www.thepiratebay.org theuy usulay have wa tu need _________________________ "tis not the dark i fear, but the creatures that lurk within it"
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#679961 - 21/04/06 01:48 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ThePissedHippie]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	This is rather handy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_software Theres one for P2P also... _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679962 - 21/04/06 01:57 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	the lovely newgabe posted about this application for macs on another thread and i thought it was more than worth a mention here: www.acquisitionx.com absolute genius piece of software. cole. x only 5 days left to wait till imac delivery _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679963 - 21/04/06 03:26 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Pen Draven Unofficial Lord Of Confusion And Pirate Extrodinaire Registered: 01/09/05 Loc: Nuneaton	ohh speaking of bt clients,, I've been using transmission on my mac for the last few months,, oh so much better than the standard client,, or at least thats my experience _________________________ Some men see things and say why.... I Dream of things that never were and say Why Not....? Oh No I'm going to get Shot Alive if he finds out - DA
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#679964 - 21/04/06 03:51 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Pen Draven]
simta compfuzzled Registered: 11/04/06 Loc: hastings	i personally use bitcomet, ive used azreus and the original bittorrent client but didnt like either. havent found anything better than bitcomet really and as for a file-sharing p2p program, i use soulseek http://www.slsknet.org/ much better than all the others as long as u know how to use it properly. most users on it, dont let jus anyone d/l off them, so if u go into the rooms n get chattin to people you can trade things etc... only one thing before you use soulseek, u have to make sure all your files are sorted n arranged properly _________________________ "the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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#679965 - 28/04/06 09:44 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: simta]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	so i can't get azureus to work on my spangly new imac it seems to install okay but when i double click it, it bounces on the dock for a second or so then disappears?! anyone know what that's about...? anyway, i did get this client to work, which seems to be doing the job fine, so i might not need to switch even if i could get azureus to run cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679966 - 28/04/06 11:06 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	My guess is it's a Java problem. Have a look at the support forums, and go and grab the lasest Java. Are you running 10.4.6? Run software update and grab anything you can from it. _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679967 - 29/04/06 12:18 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	cheers sym. i ran the software update (which added some stuff but no java related items) and i tried to manually reinstall java from apple, but that told me i already had a newer version installed. mac help said 'make sure the bsd subsystem is installed' so i found a file called bsd.pkg on my install disk and clicked that - that said there was nothing to install so i'm guessing that meant it was already installed? lastly i tried running it with rosetta forced (just because it was the only thing i hadn't tried yet) and that didn't help either. do i have to manually launch java vm or should it just get accessed when i require it? i think you are right though sym - i don't recall seeing any javascripts running on webpages i've visited so i'll test it out later by going to some that i know have java on them and seeing if they load properly. at least then i will have identified where the problem is originating from... cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679968 - 29/04/06 02:23 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	First off, Java and JavaScript are nothing to do with each other at all. Installing Java will not change anything to do with JavaScript working on web sites. The system updates include Java, or some update to it more often than not, so I guess you'll have all you need. I assume you went to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/j2se50release4intel.html to get Java from Apple? If that doesn't work, download a new copy from the site. Try a beta or CVS copy to see if it has the problem. _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679969 - 29/04/06 02:47 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	thanks dude cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679970 - 01/06/06 03:02 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	some bad news for the jolly roger and pals "Swedish police has today taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody. The police chose to do this despite the fact that the services provided by the worlds largest bittorrent tracker are fully legal in Sweden. The servers where located in a protected area, to which the police had no legal right to enter, but this was ignored. Piratbyr�n (the Pirate Bureau), a swedish pro-pirate lobby organisation, also got their servers seized, since they where located in the same room. Two operators of The Pirate Bay are in police custody, and can't be reached." source: wikipedia cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679971 - 01/06/06 03:41 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Pen Draven Unofficial Lord Of Confusion And Pirate Extrodinaire Registered: 01/09/05 Loc: Nuneaton	Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Now that really really sucks _________________________ Some men see things and say why.... I Dream of things that never were and say Why Not....? Oh No I'm going to get Shot Alive if he finds out - DA
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#679972 - 01/06/06 04:05 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Pen Draven]
Pen Draven Unofficial Lord Of Confusion And Pirate Extrodinaire Registered: 01/09/05 Loc: Nuneaton	More info http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/31/piratebay_raid/ _________________________ Some men see things and say why.... I Dream of things that never were and say Why Not....? Oh No I'm going to get Shot Alive if he finds out - DA
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#679973 - 23/08/06 09:35 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	heya folks I've just recently started getting into bit torrent and was wondering if any of you techo torrent savy had any sound advice about speeding up transfers rates up/down etc. Whats the best way to seed.. and use trackers etc... Im using azureus. I really like it and i've read the wiki help files back the front and up and down. Most, but not all of it makes sense to me. I also got a plug in to auto set my max up and download speeds... Anyone know what the Distributed Hash Table does?. I have a rough idea of what its supposed to do... but how dop i get the most out of it? but i would like to hear about it a bit more about this stuff from folks who know how to write tech in english _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679974 - 23/08/06 10:02 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	what speed is your connection (up and down) and what kind of d/l speeds are you getting from bt? i have a 10meg bb line and don't get great speeds imo (averaging about 30-40kb/s). where did you get the auto speed setting plug-in...? cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679975 - 23/08/06 10:06 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	I have a 4mb symmetrical line with a 1:1 contention ratio I get around the same speeds you do... The azureus wiki http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page Has a page with the plug ins... _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679976 - 23/08/06 10:08 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	With torrents your best benchmark is to download at legal torrent (like http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/) and have a look at the speed then. Failing that, try downloading a new torrent with loads of seeders, something like a new pop album thats about 60mb with about 40 people seeding. If you find the speeds are good on them then there is little more you can do. any slow torrents are caused by slow peers and or a slow tracker. The best thing to do in that case is just leave it downloading for a long time. It will help eeryone wanting that file. _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679977 - 23/08/06 10:08 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	Written by: ado-p I have a 4mb symmetrical line with a 1:1 contention ratio apart from th '4mb' bit, i have no idea what that means! thanks for the plug-in cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679978 - 23/08/06 10:14 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	The symetrical line meas that i can upload and download 'potentially' with the same transfer rate. A spped test put mine at 2.5mb. Fastest i've donload at was 860kbps. From microsoft.. Contention ratio is the amount of people you are 'contending' with for you 10mb line... In ireland, most are 24:1 or 48:1 that means you are sharing your connection with up to 24 or 48 peopla at a time... We were lucky to find a company that provides a far, far superior service to the rest of the competion. But now we have to move out... So want to download as much as possible in the next five days... _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679979 - 23/08/06 10:17 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
mcp Flying Water Muppet Registered: 20/05/03 Loc: Edin-borrow.	isohunt.com and I'm on a stupidly fast univerisity back bone: 600mb = maybe ten minutes? I love it... I use bittornado cos it works with firefox and I can just click the links and they start downloading... yum yum _________________________ "the now legendary" - Kaskade "the still legendary" - Kaskade I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
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#679980 - 23/08/06 10:55 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: mcp]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	I just been looking at mldonkey (mlnet) http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page Looks great, but like all really good free software it appears i need a degree in programming apps to get it going... _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679981 - 23/08/06 11:37 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	mlnet is a pain in the arse im going to give this one a try later http://www.hillmanminx.net/iswipe/ _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679982 - 23/08/06 11:40 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
Dunc playing the days away Registered: 19/08/03 Loc: The Middle lands	I'm on a lowly 1meg line, but I downloaded an album last week in less than 5 minutes. Like Sym says it depends how many seeders/peers etc there are and what their connection is like. I'm lucky that I'm with Telewest Broadband and one of their main servers is only a couple of miles from my house, I'm sure that helps get a decent and consistent connection. I used to be on the 4meg line and was on it from almost the first week it was available from Telewest, when I dropped to 1meg as part of our tv/phone/web package I didn't notice any drop in download or general web surfing speeds.....go figure. I use bitlord and it's not the best imo, not that I know what the best is but there must be better out there. Thanks for the nod towards bittornado Meg I'll go grab that this evening I think _________________________ Becoming a Dad is the best feeling in the world Watching them grow teaches you a whole new type of love
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#679983 - 24/08/06 12:02 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
alfapoi Member Registered: 22/10/04	Written by: coleman i have a 10meg bb line and don't get great speeds imo (averaging about 30-40kb/s). cole. x This seems slow for your connection speed, when I lived in Bath I had a 8mg connection and the speeds where like 300-400 Kbs (dependant on the number of seeders) Have you set up the port forwarding on your router? and allowed them thru your firewall. You can check it on this site Here is a guide for setting up a router.
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#679984 - 24/08/06 12:59 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Dunc]
simta compfuzzled Registered: 11/04/06 Loc: hastings	Written by: coleman we discuss things such as illegal drugs...but we don't do it. well i think we've found we're not allowed to talk about those things either i use bitcomet for my torrent client, and soulseek for p2p stuff, _________________________ "the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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#679985 - 24/08/06 01:28 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: alfapoi]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	Written by: alfapoi Written by: coleman i have a 10meg bb line and don't get great speeds imo (averaging about 30-40kb/s). cole. x This seems slow for your connection speed, when I lived in Bath I had a 8mg connection and the speeds where like 300-400 Kbs (dependant on the number of seeders) Have you set up the port forwarding on your router? and allowed them thru your firewall. You can check it on this site Here is a guide for setting up a router. As I said, that could just be down to where you are downloading from. You can't get a good idae of your download speed until you download a few files of a few sizes over http/torrent/ftp/etc. _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679986 - 25/08/06 03:09 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	iswipe looks very cool but there are some downsides There doesnt seem to be any tech support, whatsoever. It freezes about once a minute. It finds the file on search, brilliantly. It lets you select it, but doesnt appear to actually download it. Which is a bit of a pain. Azereus on the other hand is sweet... but i would like a P2P option aswell I called up my isp and cinformed that i am suposed to have 4mb up and down. Im only getting less than fifty on BT but the techs assure me that no port forwarding is needed... i dont know anything about ports though... _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679987 - 25/08/06 03:20 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Yo, Aiden, you got a network router for your internet? Any firewall? (Windows or otherwise) _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679988 - 25/08/06 03:24 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	Yep I have wireless router.... _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679989 - 25/08/06 04:31 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Which? Open up a brower and type in : 192.168.1.1 This should be the router's setup page. Log in (the UN and PW will depend on if you have set them yourself, otherwise they will be seta as the default -go have a look on the manufacturers webiste or in the instruction manual) to this page. Under something like "advanced" ther should be one called "Port Forwarding". Click it. Google which ports your BT client uses, and enter them on the router's set up page. Click apply/ save and you may then need to restart the router. Then again, that might not work. But i reckon the tech people you spoke to when they said it was nothing to do with port forwarding, were talking rubbish. It depends on what program you are using and what model of router you have. I dont think they can simply say yes or no. Give that a try and let us know how you get on. Good luck. _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679990 - 25/08/06 05:12 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	yes, they would have been talking rubbish. Google can't tell you what ports BT uses, because each client is different and you can select almost any port. Look in the Azereus to find the port. You will also need to know your own ip address (you should change it to static so it doesn't change when your DHCP session ends) by typing ipconfig in a command prompt. You could also try setting up UPnP. _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679991 - 25/08/06 05:24 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Sym]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	Thats what I meant by google for the ports. I just looked for " Azereus port forwarding " and found this: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Azureus_FAQ There must be the info you require, but I am at work and cant spend any more time pressing each of the buttons on this big chunk of plastic I have underneath my hands. _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679992 - 25/08/06 05:42 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot Silly Chavs Registered: 17/04/02 Loc: Possibly Romania	This is what you need though _________________________ I will never stop loving you.
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#679993 - 25/08/06 10:44 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: UnscrupulousChavOffersFoot]
ado-p Pirate Ninja Registered: 13/05/04 Loc: Galway/Ireland	Cheers guys... thanks for the links jon, I've been reading that whole wiki back the front for about a week now. Im getting it slow enough but sure enough. My ISP assures me that i am get a bit rate of about 5mb... up and down... thats alot... I've managed to download at almost 900kbps from sites like apple and microsoft. Spped tests are all so different that i dont trust them. This morning i was getting 100kps from azareus so i guess it has alot to do with other peopls upload rates and the amount of available peers and seeds too. Theres just so many bloody settings... I might switch to a different one Also, I took off the speed managing plugin, it was saturating my bandwidth and i couldnt surf at all... it did give me a good idea of what my line capacity was so i was able to take say, 60% of that and set it. I dont and cant have a fixed IP address with this particular ISP. Well, I can change to a business connection and get one... And seen as how im moving house today, thats what i might do. For now though, i'll make do. Cole... What are you using for P2P outside of bit torrent? _________________________ Love is the law.
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#679994 - 25/08/06 11:44 PM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: ado-p]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	limewire but i rarely use anything outside of bittorrent nowdays. i don't d/l much music as i tend to rely on donations from friends and buying what i like and bittorrent covers just about all my movie and tv needs cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679995 - 26/08/06 01:52 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
Sym Geek-enviro-hippy priest Registered: 28/09/04 Loc: Diss, Norfolk	I was talking about a fixed IP within your DMZ - from your router to your PC - not with your ISP. I doubt you'll need a fixed IP from an ISP. _________________________ There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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#679996 - 26/08/06 02:17 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
simta compfuzzled Registered: 11/04/06 Loc: hastings	Written by: coleman i don't d/l much music as i tend to rely on donations from friends and buying what i like and bittorrent covers just about all my movie and tv needs didnt i see a thread a while ago where you were having a go at ppl for d/l stuff? lol for p2p should use soulseek, www.slsknet.org dont just search for files, as the best users only let ppl in their user list d/l from them, so go into the rooms, ask for what you want, and people will add you, which means you get complete albums but you have to have a well ordered collection, or people wont talk to u _________________________ "the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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#679997 - 26/08/06 02:26 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: simta]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	Written by: simta didnt i see a thread a while ago where you were having a go at ppl for d/l stuff? lol nah, must be your imagination... like i said, i rarely d/l music anyway - i buy the music i like on cd cos mp3's are a waste of a decent stereo. cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#679998 - 28/08/06 02:54 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
simta compfuzzled Registered: 11/04/06 Loc: hastings	hmmmmm must be mainly films n series then lol _________________________ "the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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#679999 - 15/11/06 12:59 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: simta]
coleman big and good and broken Registered: 29/08/02 Loc: lunn dunn, yoo kay	just thought i'd come back and sing the praises of demonoid.com its a members-only bittorrent tracker, which means you get people seeding for much longer (and as such, feel obliged to seed for a decent amount of time yourself). i love it - anyone who wants to join, give me a pm/email and i'll send you an invite cole. x _________________________ "i see you at 'dis cafe. i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself. they do porridge." - tim westwood
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#680000 - 14/02/07 03:52 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: coleman]
NYC NYC Registered: 26/08/01 Loc: NYC, NY, USA	Written by: coleman this has nothing to do with the new psp i just bought cole. x WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THAT THE PSP WAS SO HOT?!? I just bought it for gaming and had no idea it even had memory let alone MP3 and movie capabilities!!! Just downloaded season 5 of family guy for it yesterday. I really don't need friends anymore. And certainly can forget about spinning fire... the new SSX game is coming out soon! No WONDER Cole hasn't been here much lately. He's been working on his thumb blisters! Oh, and for anybody else that's an SSX3 addict, there's this video that non-addicts will only find mildly amusing.
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#933448 - 08/08/11 01:14 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Chickpea]
Jeffery795 newbie Registered: 22/07/11 Loc: Albury, NSW, Australia.	Probably a bit late for this, but.. Best thing to use fr=or torrents is BitLord, used in conjunction with a site called something I cant remember. But Torlock and Torrents.to are very good. DO NOT USE PIRATEBAY!!! Your more likely to get a virus than any other site, and your more likely to get in trouble, as it is one of the most well known sites, and the authoritys enjoy getting you in trouble. _________________________ You Lost The Game.
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#933449 - 08/08/11 01:15 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Jeffery795]
Jeffery795 newbie Registered: 22/07/11 Loc: Albury, NSW, Australia.	Oh, and Fenopy and TorrentFunk are good aswell. _________________________ You Lost The Game.
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#933692 - 19/08/11 02:11 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Jeffery795]
Fine_Rabid_Dog Internet Hate Machine Registered: 26/05/04 Loc: They seek him here, they seek ...	Originally Posted By: Jeffery795 DO NOT USE PIRATEBAY!!! Your more likely to get a virus than any other site, and your more likely to get in trouble, as it is one of the most well known sites, and the authoritys enjoy getting you in trouble. Been using piratebay for as long as I can remember now. No viruses, and certainly no run ins with the law. Also, Utorrent ftw Edited by Fine_Rabid_Dog (19/08/11 02:11 AM) _________________________ The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
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#933768 - 24/08/11 11:10 AM Re: bittorrent clients [Re: Fine_Rabid_Dog]
G4dget Eternal Student of all things Skill Registered: 05/08/06 Loc: Kansas City, KS	yes, utorrent is awesome _________________________ Happiness runs in a circular motion!! G4dget
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