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WKHE
05-03-03, 09:29 PM
mmmmm.... how come is it that my upload rate is always WAY higher than my download rate??? :( :confused:
phantomAI
05-03-03, 09:36 PM
The people on the other end must be limiting their upload rate...basically your downloading parts from other people.

I have the experimental version of the bittorrent program, so I can control what my maximum upload speed is. Boo me, I actually slow my speed to under 60 KB/s so the university doesn't get suspicious that I can go 300 KB/s :p
WKHE
05-03-03, 09:49 PM
mmm... lucky u.... :)
AlphaAlien
05-03-03, 10:30 PM
mmm...soup

I need broadband :(
mguiddy
05-03-03, 11:33 PM
Or there are alot more leechers than seeders
doofy
05-04-03, 04:59 AM
yea.. so how did you lower your upload, tell me please
doofy
05-04-03, 05:34 AM
cool.. never mind i now also got the experimental version
WKHE
05-04-03, 06:13 AM
where to get????? pls.... those uploads are using hell lota my bandwidth.....
WKHE
05-04-03, 06:18 AM
Originally posted by AlphaAlien
mmm...soup

I need broadband :(

i respect u that u can use 56K for such a long... time... especially in ur country where BB plans are dirt cheap and LIGHTNING fast... i once tried dialup and i almost cired. :)
WKHE
05-04-03, 06:22 AM
one thing i wanna say though.... my country's 512kbps plan is $76 /mth which i think my ISP is over charging me. i guess many of u ppl will agree with me? and sadly, it is the "FASTEST" BB plan in my country...
doofy
05-04-03, 07:45 AM
i got 512 kb/s for 36 €
WKHE
05-04-03, 09:31 AM
doofy...... mind telling me where do u get the experimental version? THANK U~~~!!!
doofy
05-04-03, 10:08 AM
yea.. sorry here ya go http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/
WKHE
05-04-03, 10:13 AM
LOVE YA DOOFY! :)
doofy
05-04-03, 10:20 AM
well you can skip the love thing :D...
Trust
05-04-03, 10:29 AM
Originally posted by WKHE
my country's 512kbps plan is $76 /mth which i think my ISP is over charging me. i guess many of u ppl will agree with me? and sadly, it is the "FASTEST" BB plan in my country...

Where are you from WKHE ?
doofy
05-04-03, 11:10 AM
sin = singapore i think
phantomAI
05-04-03, 11:48 AM
that is expensive....:(, I can only enjoy my nice bandwidth for only one more week, then I'll be heading home and will be back on 56K. Even AlphaAlien has better 56K service than me :p
RedKing
05-04-03, 05:57 PM
Originally posted by doofy
yea.. so how did you lower your upload, tell me please

If you don't like that you have to upload or wish to lower your upload rate, then drop Bit Torrent. Clearly its not the app for you.

Go use KaZaA or some other crap p2p program. Don't be such a god damn selfish leech.

;)
doofy
05-05-03, 04:11 AM
i don`t leech dude... it`s just when i use bittorent i cant browse the internet becuase it uses all my bandwith.. so i want to lower the upload a bit
jim_phelps
05-05-03, 02:03 PM
Originally posted by doofy
i don`t leech dude... it`s just when i use bittorent i cant browse the internet becuase it uses all my bandwith.. the all known DSL-problem :)
Does your ISP use PPPoE?
doofy
05-05-03, 02:56 PM
ehm what is PPPoE ???
lynchknot
05-05-03, 03:17 PM
I installed this bit torrent to see what it was about - where is it? I click shortcuts and all it says is it's installed but I ran a search and click the links and they all said the same thing/
doofy
05-05-03, 03:21 PM
you need to go to a download site... and click a link there, thenn it will open bittorrent, hope this helps, here is one http://www.suprnova.org/
lynchknot
05-05-03, 03:53 PM
Thanks for the link - most connections were refused - i'm getting a dl of 4k right now - hehe, like dial-up.
RedKing
05-05-03, 07:28 PM
Originally posted by doofy
i don`t leech dude... it`s just when i use bittorent i cant browse the internet becuase it uses all my bandwith.. so i want to lower the upload a bit

I know. In all relaity you can't leach with bit torent.

If you set your uploads really low it will kill your download rate.
Allot of leeches go for the Experimental client thinking they can turn off uploads and have insanely fast download rates.
mguiddy
05-05-03, 09:58 PM
burst! (http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/)
Check it out.
phantomAI
05-05-03, 10:01 PM
Originally posted by RedKing
I know. In all relaity you can't leach with bit torent.

If you set your uploads really low it will kill your download rate.
Allot of leeches go for the Experimental client thinking they can turn off uploads and have insanely fast download rates.

most likely I get a download and upload proportional to each other...so yeah when I lower it, the download goes lower.

but please let's keep this topic non warez, so do not distribute links where you can download stuff, the clients are ok to post.
lynchknot
05-06-03, 01:20 AM
Wow, i've never seen a download at over 700kb/s !

http://www.techstarcomputers.net/~sighost/sigs/D.png
Dark Vageta
05-06-03, 01:37 AM
Originally posted by lynchknot
Wow, i've never seen a download at over 700kb/s !

http://www.techstarcomputers.net/~sighost/sigs/D.png


yep thats the total being use by everyone i belive .
Dark Vageta
05-06-03, 01:54 AM
heheh look at this one
doofy
05-06-03, 03:15 AM
heheh lol.... yesterday i had like 2000 kb/s together with all the peers... to bad i don`t have proof
RedKing
05-06-03, 11:17 AM
I always get slow downloads. :(
Dark Vageta
05-06-03, 11:22 AM
lol Slow Downloads you getting it at 479k LOL
doofy
05-06-03, 11:27 AM
bastard... i only i had 479 kb/s :D
X3RO
05-06-03, 11:35 AM
Man... my download/upload ratio is always proportionate of each other :(
lynchknot
05-06-03, 11:59 AM
Originally posted by doofy
heheh lol.... yesterday i had like 2000 kb/s together with all the peers... to bad i don`t have proof

yep, I was at 50,000kb/s I had proof but I lost it - :D
WKHE
05-06-03, 12:21 PM
sigh*** how i wish i have a FAST connection..... :( sad sad
monstar
05-08-03, 07:19 PM
Originally posted by doofy
i don`t leech dude... it`s just when i use bittorent i cant browse the internet becuase it uses all my bandwith.. so i want to lower the upload a bit

I've got this probleem too. Yeah, KPN rocks ... not. They're capping our ADSL connection. :( I only using bittorrent when i'm sleeping. The uploads have a too negative effectice on mine download.
WKHE
05-29-03, 01:55 AM
good ppl... keep it up! BT is the best p2p i've ever known! :)
WKHE
01-26-04, 10:24 AM
guys, any idea where i can get torrents on hong kong movies?
tmo79
02-16-04, 08:09 AM
Wow, i've never seen a download at over 700kb/s !

http://www.techstarcomputers.net/~sighost/sigs/D.png

How do you find content to dowload, when I start the program it asks for a URL. : (
azazel-
02-16-04, 10:56 AM
Uh...why are you guys using that crappy client? Try out ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/) ...it lets you tweak your upload rate, how long you seed after the download is completed, and your upload rate while downloading and while seeding. Not to mention it doesn't open up a different client for each download, and you can queue up downloads.
Nabraxas
02-16-04, 11:05 AM
Yeah, I use ABC. A lot better than Bit Torrent. Seems to be faster than Bit Torrent aswell. Heres a link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pingpong-abc/ABC-win32-v2.6.1.exe?download

Regards,
finagle69
02-16-04, 01:09 PM
is ABC better than Azureus? i'm quite impressed with Azureus, i was using BT++, but it's stayed in Alpha stages for waaaay too long.
mimeryme
02-16-04, 02:11 PM
ABC was the 3rd client I ever tried I think as I didn't need to look any further for something that actually works for me. (I know the first client I tried was the original BT client and I think the second had some umbrella icon of some sort.)

finagle, you've already heard two endorsements for ABC, go ahead and try it. I really like it and wouldn't have gone back to BT if not for foobar2000's torrents that require it. Now, I'm keeping the client installed for other uses as well.
AtomB
02-16-04, 11:32 PM
yeap ABC owns
wolfpac3nWo
02-16-04, 11:39 PM
i used to use burst!, pretty good client i liked it.. i just downloaded ABC, looks better, but not sure about the overall performance of it... unless theres something I don't know. but i'm gonna stick with it because of the GUI and overall abilities. Thanks
azazel-
02-17-04, 12:36 AM
ABC is essentially a "frontend" for the Shad0w experimental client, w/ added queue support. Other than that, not much is changed in the core. It's got better visuals, and is much easier to tweak, which is why I prefer it to any other client out there.
kidrocky7
02-17-04, 12:41 AM
yah ABC is the best
kidrocky7
02-17-04, 12:41 AM
....................:P....................
diskopo
02-17-04, 01:08 AM
yah ABC is the best
Yeah it's so good he has to say it twice!
kidrocky7
02-17-04, 01:11 AM
LOL whoops, double post :P
Michael
02-17-04, 01:15 AM
bad boy
finagle69
02-17-04, 11:15 AM
k, tried ABC, and must say, Azureus is WAY better, way more options and useful information. ABC... uninstalled.
AtomB
02-17-04, 08:10 PM
k, tried ABC, and must say, Azureus is WAY better, way more options and useful information. ABC... uninstalled.

well if it didn't require Java then it might be worth checking out. but i refuse to install Java on my system.
finagle69
02-17-04, 08:54 PM
well if it didn't require Java then it might be worth checking out. but i refuse to install Java on my system.
well to each his own i guess. i installed the newest java when i installed Opera so, i already had it. Azureus is by far the best and most indepth BT client i've used :)
paul2-0-0-2
02-17-04, 09:04 PM
I like TorrentStorm (Y) nice and easy to use and good info and stuff your downloadin
WKHE
04-09-06, 12:51 PM
try BitComet. best ones around recently...
Joe
04-09-06, 01:17 PM
Quit dragging up old dead threads. kthnxbye
mikerm19
04-09-06, 02:26 PM
and uTorrent is the best...
AlphaAlien
04-09-06, 04:56 PM
utorrent is the best