Juniel Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 okay okay, another question people.. What IS a Bittorent?? How does it work, and why is it used? Who came up with it? and what are the risks or consequences? What is good about it?? thanks experts!
BoomBa_GoosE Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html read on mah friend. =)
Juniel Posted January 28, 2004 Author Posted January 28, 2004 thx boomba goose ahhah.....that has a nice ring to it.. say...did you get that boomba from FFVIII?? just askin'
BoomBa_GoosE Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 haha no problem man, and actually i got boomba from a tagalo slang. mah frens are philapino and supposidly it means sex. who knows. hahah
StriderVM Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 boomBa : Bomba means "naked". Kill your Filipino friends.... NOW Or else I will kill them....... XD
Agozer Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 (edited) boomBa : Bomba means "naked". Kill your Filipino friends.... NOW Or else I will kill them....... XD Bombastic, really fantastic..... Edited January 28, 2004 by Agozer
Thunder In Paradise Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 Ok, I tried using Bit Torrent 3.3 the other day, and I couldn't figure out why everybody talks about this system. I use Kazaa ++ Lite, and I find that works alot better. Sure, Bit has alot of the harder to find stuff, but are transfer rates of only 1 or 2KB/s normal?
taratata Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 Ok, I tried using Bit Torrent 3.3 the other day, and I couldn't figure out why everybody talks about this system. I use Kazaa ++ Lite, and I find that works alot better. Sure, Bit has alot of the harder to find stuff, but are transfer rates of only 1 or 2KB/s normal? Uh? I usually download at about 30 or 40 KB/s on bittorrent (much much more than on any other P2P programs I've tried)... One thing to keep in mind about bittorrent: your dl speed is proportionnal to your upload speed
Magus Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 ok, i can get an average of 300k/s on bit-torrent. my record is 399. i know i know, so close to 400. i'll have to work on that. what you want to do is find a good bit-torrent client. I recommend Azureus. I would also limit the max upload speed to somewhere around 20-30. Remember that it isn't good for the bit-torrent network if u don't seed 100% of the file ur downloading. Oh, one last thing. If your on a LAN or connect to the internet through a router. You will want to forward the bit-torrent ports to your pc. Azureus will tell u what ports need forwarding, and if they need forwarding at all. Good luck.
Agozer Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 I find Kazaa Lite K++ quite handy as well... I haven't downloaded any torrents yet, but Shareaza can handle those as well. It pretty weird that when I downloaded Wild ARMs 3 OST from eDonkey2000 network, I rarely got more than 3,5KB/s. Normally this would have been something like 1,8KB/s on average.
Thunder In Paradise Posted January 31, 2004 Posted January 31, 2004 Well, I have DSL, and usually my speeds are up around 1.2MB/900KB, so I couldn't figure it out. Could it have been just a slow person on the other side? Does having a firewall mess with this program? Taratata, haven't you ever tried Kazaa? If I get good sources, I can get up to around 120-150KB/s.
Agozer Posted January 31, 2004 Posted January 31, 2004 Well, I have DSL, and usually my speeds are up around 1.2MB/900KB, so I couldn't figure it out. Could it have been just a slow person on the other side? Does having a firewall mess with this program? Taratata, haven't you ever tried Kazaa? If I get good sources, I can get up to around 120-150KB/s.True a lot of sources in Kazaa means ungodly speeds. I have a standard cable connection and I get 68KB/s when downloading off internet. Cable specs are 525kbs/200kbs.
taratata Posted January 31, 2004 Posted January 31, 2004 That's right, you can get very high speed on kazaa if you get the right source. But if you don't...That's where bittorrent is good: you're connected to many people at once. Not comparable with edonkey though, where you have to wait for someone to send you the file: there everyone downloads and uploads the same file.Try checking your upload speed (it is linked to your dl speed). And remember: P2P has always a part of hazard (any P2P program).
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