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Soo... torrenting. Info?

IriahIriah Registered User
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Aha. So I found out it's actually P2P under a different name. Sorry!

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  • RohaqRohaq Registered User
    Saying you're going to download a TV series is bad bad juju from the get go.

    So before this gets locked, here's information on BitTorrent:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

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  • IriahIriah Registered User
    Rohaq wrote:
    Saying you're going to download a TV series is bad bad juju from the get go.

    So before this gets locked, here's information on BitTorrent:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
    I thought so. Sorry, guys.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    We can talk about torrenting, you know. There are legitimate uses for it. I've been using it a ton lately because I got VMWare server running, so I'm downloading every Linux ISO I can find. Just no piracy talk.

    If you still need advice (even though you deleted your question), the default recommendation for a client is utorrent.

    If you're behind a router and are getting crappy download speeds, you probably need to forward the relevant ports. Consult Portforward.

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  • JWFokkerJWFokker Registered User
    I would recommend Azureus over utorrent. The only thing utorrent has going for it is minimal system resource usage.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Registered User regular
    JWFokker wrote:
    I would recommend Azureus over utorrent. The only thing utorrent has going for it is minimal system resource usage.
    If system resources are important, yeah uTorrent. Azureus is currently sitting in my system tray eating up 118MB of memory (mostly disk-swap though).

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  • CycophantCycophant Registered User
    JWFokker wrote:
    I would recommend Azureus over utorrent. The only thing utorrent has going for it is minimal system resource usage.

    Azureus seems to be the only other "popular" torrent client, so what are its advantages over utorrent? I've been using utorrent for a good few years now and never had any troubles, but I wonder if I'm missing out on a feature or two I'd use that would be worth it raping my RAM.

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  • khainkhain Registered User regular
    JWFokker wrote:
    I would recommend Azureus over utorrent. The only thing utorrent has going for it is minimal system resource usage.

    It also has no disadvantages compared to Azureus as well. Also at least in my opinion minimal resource usage is pretty huge when you leave something like a torrent program on 24/7.

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  • EdgieEdgie Registered User regular
    Really, some people will say they like utorrent more, and some will claim to like Azuruas more. All I can say is try them both, and see which you like more. I've always used Azuruas. I'm used to it, I like the way it organizes the torrents, and I enjoy knowing where every option I need is. Switching to another torrent program would be silly. I'd say the same for you.

    If you want new features, just check the wikipage. I'm pretty sure they have a table of which torrent program does what.

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  • robaalrobaal Registered User
    Cycophant wrote:
    JWFokker wrote:
    I would recommend Azureus over utorrent. The only thing utorrent has going for it is minimal system resource usage.

    Azureus seems to be the only other "popular" torrent client, so what are its advantages over utorrent?

    Built-in tracker IIRC, open-source, platform-independent, connection through TOR (not good for big files, but I suppose might be useful to smuggle some docs into PRC or something).

    OTOH uTorrent has tetris...

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  • RohaqRohaq Registered User
    japan wrote:
    We can talk about torrenting, you know. There are legitimate uses for it. I've been using it a ton lately because I got VMWare server running, so I'm downloading every Linux ISO I can find. Just no piracy talk.
    You didn't the see the OP before the edit :)

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