Techie2000
In Vertigo
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join:2001-12-05
clubs:
| Nice.
It's cool to see new technologies like this being used together. What I find nice is that with more people just downloading and uploading the torrents at once, the general speeds of the torrents in such an automated system would probably be faster than ones found on random websites. At least in theory.
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L Campanazo
join:2003-12-15 | Won't Isp's in their desire to block p2p ports block some legit torrent-mod use... if it's all encryted how are they to tell which one's legit... this could be interesting if it goes into mainstream usage... |
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yock
TFTC
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join:2000-11-21
Fairfield, OH | ISP's will have to lose the notion that all heavy traders are illegal traders. I can see large ISP's trying to quash this...long live greed capitalism... |
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djtim21
It's all good
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join:2003-12-22
Buffalo Grove, IL
clubs: |  Didn't Chris Prillo leave Tech TV??
He left sometime last year - I guess everyone just thinks he is still there  |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| New method of choice....
Torrents are now almost my exclusive method of file transfer. I like the idea of everyone sharing their bandwidth.
It's hard to donate to every project I feel is worthy so by my allowing twice the upload total as the download total of the torrent before I close it out, I feel like I am giving something back. |
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Vamp
5c077
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join:2003-01-28
MD | reply to djtim21
Re: Didn't Chris Prillo leave Tech TV??
That's why it says "ex-host" ... Anyway, yeah I seen Chris's blog the same day he wrote about the RSS and bit-torrent.
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tadmaz
join:2002-05-30
Mount Prospect, IL | reply to L Campanazo
Re: Nice.
With most bittorrent clients you can change the ports it uses. |
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wizard_ct
Gentoo Mage
join:2002-06-27
Santa Clara, CA
clubs: | People are already doing this
I made a python script like this last summer so I could use it with animesuki feeds. It's rather trivial to do and so useful, dropped it in a cron job and I never missed an ep  |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to Matt
Re: New method of choice....
said by Matt  :
Torrents are now almost my exclusive method of file transfer. I like the idea of everyone sharing their bandwidth.
It's hard to donate to every project I feel is worthy so by my allowing twice the upload total as the download total of the torrent before I close it out, I feel like I am giving something back.
BT is my 'last choice' due to its S L O W download speed. if theres something i want and cant get it off news server or IRC and i still want it bad enough i'll do the BT thing but only as last resort.
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SilWil
@aol.com | BT is only slow for the impatient, the incredibly stupid and the people with low bandwidth. Which category do you fall under? |
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53059959
Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | I like bittorrent
it is good for large/popular files, kazaa is good for more obscure, or small files. irc? I got tired of typing in so many commands just to download a single file to find i'd be sitting in a que. |
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wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD | reply to dvd536
Re: New method of choice....
I've found that my BT transfers go way up if I forward port 6881 from my router to the BT'ing PC. Also, they tend to start out slow, and speed up as the transfer progresses. |
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rchandra
Stargate S G-1 And Atlantis Fan
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join:2000-11-09
14225-2105
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| good for updates?
What I do now is rsync all the stuff in a directory and below on GA Tech for RHL9 update RPMs. This sounds like the perfect mating of technologies for a task like this...lots of files, some of them sizeable (X11 and kernel sources for examples are typically quite big), lists of files that change occasionally. Thoughts?
Should this sort of idea maybe be incorporated into yum (the update doodad for FC)? Good idea to maintain up-to-date distributions (e.g., you have all your FC RPMs in a directory, NFS exported and ready for doing installations, but if there's an RPM released for a Mutt update, the old Mutt RPM gets deleted and replaced with the newer one)?
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BTSucks
@comcast.n
| Bit Torrent Sucks
I can't stand Bit Torrent. It will connect to endless amounts of peers... but my d/l sucks! I can easily pull 400 KB/s off of OOL's FTP server but BT never gets above 50 KB/s tops... and that's if I'm extremely lucky. Most of the time it's 10 KB/s or less. Talk about a P.O.S. file sharing program. |
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Googled
Yay, I have FIOS
join:2001-08-13
Orchard Park, NY
 ·VoicePulse
| reply to dvd536
Re: New method of choice....
said by dvd536 :
BT is my 'last choice' due to its S L O W download speed. if theres something i want and cant get it off news server or IRC and i still want it bad enough i'll do the BT thing but only as last resort.
Your download speed with BT is directly related to your upload speed. If your upload speed is limited to 0 or some other low number your download speed will suck as well.
I think that nicely explains why BT doesn't even work over my satellite "broadband" connection.
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BT RULES
@cox.net | reply to BTSucks
Re: Bit Torrent Sucks
uhhh i beg your pardon but bit torrent is the future and i have found nothing better. |
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vernik20022
join:2004-02-11
East York, ON | reply to rchandra
Re: good for updates?
Bitorrent RULZ! The fastest there is |
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macmouse
Premium
join:2002-05-30
Saratoga, CA
| reply to Googled
Re: New method of choice....
Another thing that is an speed killer is *NAT* (firewall/routers). Without port forewording turned on, your bandwidth goes down the drain. Mainly because, most people are behind NAT's and thus, can only connect out (not receive connections in). So, the people with an "real" ip (or port-forewording through their firewall) receive that extra bandwidth because they can receive incoming connections. |
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BigGeek5
join:2002-10-09
Cincinnati, OH
| reply to BTSucks
Re: Bit Torrent Sucks
10 kilobits per second, "Maybe if there is only one seeder"
I commonly have 70 kbps up to 226(maximum)
Granted, I do have a fast connection compared to the average Joe. "3 megs per second"
FTP can be nice if you find a good server but Bittorrent is greatly gaining popularity...
You can find torrents for anything at all, literally. |
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markasailes
join:2004-05-22
Cypress, FL
| Bittorrent + RSS = Buttress
»buttress.sailes.co.uk/
Buttress is an open source free software written in java
which allows you to filter your favourite shows on a rss feed
and run the content when your away from the computer
an automagic bittorrent downloader |
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