Is Bittorrent worth getting?

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Postby Mithrandir » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:23 pm

You may also want to try http://sourceforge.net/projects/torrenttrader/ if you don't want to use a windows box...
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Postby Jman » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:38 am

Deffinitly worth getting.
I recomend ABC

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Postby panegryst » Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:55 pm

Master Kenzo wrote:And internet connections - on downloads that I get I'm very lucky to get 25Kb/s on 10Mbps DSL...a lot of people wanna download big files with 56k...and it doesn't help that I can't accept incoming connections (NAT)

it's true that your d/l speed can be very slow. but I use the Client Version, and I get usually 70~150 kb/s. plenty fast enough. the trick is tweaking your upload settings - cable and DSL don't support very much uploading, so you have to limit it to ensure that it doesn't steal your d/l bandwidth.
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