organ_shifter Posted December 14, 2005 CID Share Posted December 14, 2005 - However, many private tracker operators argue that BitComet does not honor the private flag. Instead, the torrent is shared on the DHT network and those who do not belong to the private tracker can freely leech off the resources of that community. That is the much simplified story many private trackers are telling. - Full Story: Banned Comet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted December 14, 2005 CID Share Posted December 14, 2005 Makes sense, ban it until a new version that does support it comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 15, 2005 CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 jeez BitComet was my current bit torrent program and i like it alot. i guess ill have to find another program. any good ones that i should know of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane_floyd Posted December 15, 2005 CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 Azureus is fairly good, but it doesn't have all the advanced options of Bitcomet, but that makes it quick to learn. Additionally it requires the Java Virtual Machine package to be installed, this cause some problems on some machines in the past but it is a lot better with the newer versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted December 15, 2005 CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 Plus it tends to be a resource hog. I'm using BitTornado, which has that a bit too, but there are certainly smaller BT programs that don't have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted December 15, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 jeez BitComet was my current bit torrent program and i like it alot. i guess ill have to find another program. any good ones that i should know of? I use Bit Tornado mainly, but I've been using Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zavitz87 Posted December 15, 2005 CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 organ shifter I downloaded utorrent-how do you download a torrent-im used to limewire just search and download FAQ,s do not explain how to find a particular file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted December 15, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 organ shifter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted December 15, 2005 CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 Opera web browser has torrent file support from what I understand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calgon Posted December 15, 2005 CID Share Posted December 15, 2005 i don't think it's really that big of a deal, i mean - how many trackers are flagged private comparatively speaking? and the article did say that the flag is not honored by BC only when the tracker has been unavailable for a certain amount of time - and that is what DHT is for, right? i'm sitll using BC and still happy - no problems at all so far. i used Azureus before but it hogged to much CPU and the java was just a mess. i actually like BC better. those are the only two i've used so i don't know about others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 16, 2005 CID Share Posted December 16, 2005 Using bitcomet on public trackers isn't a big deal right now because public trackers usually don't track ratios. When your using a private tracker they sometimes do track the ul/dl ratio and if it isn't high enough then they ban you. So using bitcomet on a private tracker is usually banned because of it reporting the ratio correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted December 16, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 16, 2005 Although many users say they like it alot, I've never used BitComet. My main app has always been Shad0w's Experimental Client (now called Bit Tornado). It's always given me insane speeds, so I don't think I'll switch permanently any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 16, 2005 CID Share Posted December 16, 2005 Do you really notice faster speeds with bit tornado, or could it just be the torrent your downloading, like it has lots of seeders? Or have you actually compared them by trying the same torrent on different clients and comparing speeds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted December 16, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 16, 2005 Do you really notice faster speeds with bit tornado, or could it just be the torrent your downloading, like it has lots of seeders? Or have you actually compared them by trying the same torrent on different clients and comparing speeds? Well, I've used it in comparison to Burst!, and it had significantly higher speeds. The amount of seeds were plentiful when tested. This was back in 2003 though. Screens: (Beautyshop was aquired through a client based off of an early version of Shad0w's work. Many of today's trackers refuse it because of it's outdated protocol, but when it's connected, it gets the job done. I didn't get a sharing shot of CoD2 (recent .torrent), but I did give it all back and then some. The speed did slow down to the mid 600's, but the transfer was still pretty quick:)): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 16, 2005 CID Share Posted December 16, 2005 Wow those are nice speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane_floyd Posted December 16, 2005 CID Share Posted December 16, 2005 Dude, I am running on an old 1GHz Athlon Thunderbird right now, Azureus and its parent program javaw.exe are using about 25Megs of RAM and 8% CPU. I am downloading 5 torrents at once at about 1.4Mbits down total. How much of a resource hog is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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