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Technical Help & Discussion => Software, Hardware & Website Recommendations => Topic started by: Sandra on November 04, 2003, 03:17

Title: BitTorrent
Post by: Sandra on November 04, 2003, 03:17

Does anyone have any experience of using this ? :

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html

It sounds better than the P2P progs but is it complicated to set up and use  ???

Title: Re:BitTorrent
Post by: Robotochan on November 04, 2003, 08:42

I use it a lot as there is a much less chance of downloading a file and being corrupt (well for me anyway). Best google "Shadow Bit Torrent Client" that might find the shadow client which reduced CPU usage by the program. Just install it, go to www.suprnova.org, click a torrent file from the list and it will download, same process as dat files for kazaa  :)

Title: Re:BitTorrent
Post by: Sandra on November 04, 2003, 13:21

Thanks Robo, how do you find it compared to the usual P2P ones for speed and availability ?

Title: Re:BitTorrent
Post by: Robotochan on November 04, 2003, 15:04

The good thing about BT is that it shows how many people are just sharing (Seeds) and how many people are downloading and sharing (Peers/leechers). I normally get around 2kb/s on my modem which to tell the truth is all I expect from Kazaa so it's fine  :) Availability is sometimes another matter as sometimes the torrent files don't work or for some reason just become dead...

Title: Re:BitTorrent
Post by: DropShadow on November 05, 2003, 02:53

I've heard quite a lot about the program, though I haven't, myself, used it.

I use 'eMule' as my preferred client for downloading "hashed" links. Very nice prog.

http://www.emule-project.net/

Anyone needs any help on it, just ask. I *would* suggest anyone interested has an ADSL connection, though!