prathapml Posted March 9, 2005 Posted March 9, 2005 This is the "official" client in that it is the latest supported version from Bram Cohen, architect of BitTorrent. It has the fewest features of all the clients, and releases are much more conservative than the experimental versions. Use this if you want stability but don't need any of the common features of the other clients, such as upload rate limiting.No changelog, sorry .DOWNLOADSOURCE
DigeratiPrime Posted March 10, 2005 Posted March 10, 2005 News (funny last paragraph): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/09/bittorrent_update/Changes: http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrent_versions.html
Nanaki Posted March 10, 2005 Posted March 10, 2005 I have a question.How do people download that fast? I can normally download over 1MB/sec but I can't get over 14kB/sec with Azureus.I have limited my upload to 5kB tho, but Azureus says I can download at an unlimited rate with it. (my upload limit sucks).But even without that limit it goes sooo slow. >_>
prathapml Posted March 10, 2005 Author Posted March 10, 2005 haha, no idea how they do it.I too get my actual torrent speeds much lower than the capacity of my connection.The help files and forums says that maybe I have this because of my XPSP2 firewall - but its the same even on other OSes.
DigeratiPrime Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 i use azureus, I often download new linux live distros (I am a Linewb), and average dl rate is about 600/700kbps.You may need to forward your ports on your router. Visit http://www.portforward.com/ for help with this.Your ISP may be 'throttling' certain ports, try different ones. Also if using XP SP2, you may want to get a patched tcpip.sys to allow more simultaneous connections per port.On Cable and DSL since its an asymmetric line you upload and download rate are disproportional, you need to find the optimal balance The reason this happens is due to the nature of TCP/IP -- every packet received must be acknowledged with a small outbound packet. If the outbound link is saturated with BitTorrent data, the latency of these TCP/IP ACKs will rise, causing poor efficiency.http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/38.html
dman Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 Also remember that it depends on how many others are connected to the torrent... your download is many others upload, thats why it is polite to leave client running after download is complete at least til share ratio is 1/1.
firefoxthebomb Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 I used to get slow speeds but once I forwared my ports on my router I now get like 600/700 when the seeds are fast, I use Bit-Tornado
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