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BT Clients: Which one is best?

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BT Clients: Which one is best?

Postby dogmeat on Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:53 am

I just recently started using BT again. I tried it when it first starting getting popular and I wasn't impressed. Now I'm trying again and I'm a little disappointed with the lack of information about different clients. I'm using BT++ as was suggested to me. I think it sucks. Since BT has a limited variety of files, I still use WinMX at the same time. This is where BT++ fails. There's no way to throttle the upload speed. I'm on a home network with a total of 5 computers using it. I try to limit my upload usage to 16K/s. Its really not fair to my roommates for me to hog the line. I also don't want my uploads and downloads on WinMX to sufficate. So I need to find a client with more abilities. Most importantly, a connection throttle.
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Postby glasyalabolas on Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:19 am

Personally, I use Shad0w's BT client. It features the bandwidth throttling you're looking for, and includes throttle presets for varying connection speeds. It also has the ability to increase your maximum peer connection, as well as a "super-seed" mode to distribute hard-to-get file chunks to other peers. A new version is released almost daily.

Some people also like Burst, but I haven't tried it yet. Shadow's does everything I need.
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Postby dogmeat on Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:29 am

I've heard that if too many users are Superseeding that it will distrupt the network. I have no idea how true this is or what technology it uses. I really have jumped deep into BT yet as you can tell.
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Postby glasyalabolas on Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:29 am

I'm still not up on the "super-seed" ability either, but I guess it's meant for use if the original seed goes down, so lesser-distributed chunks can propogate to other peers. The author of Shad0w's client wrote a little explanation in the Bittorrent Yahoo group.
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Postby guest on Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:09 pm

im looking for a bt client that will let me just get a few files from a torrent ie. a whole season of episodes within a single .torrent and i just need a few of them
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Re: bt client

Postby dap OLD werewolf on Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:47 pm

guest wrote:im looking for a bt client that will let me just get a few files from a torrent ie. a whole season of episodes within a single .torrent and i just need a few of them


Azureus allows you to set the following priorities on files within a torrent: "high," "normal" and "do not download" - so even if you dl the torrent with the entire series you can just set the "do not download" priority on the ones you don't want.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net
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Postby wizbit on Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:24 am

Great tnx alot im gonna try that now
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