Bittorent newbie help please

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:06 pm

Hmmm... ok, so I am trying out this cool new Ãœberprogram.

MIME-type registered, torrent file downloaded, connecting to peers, yeah yeah.

How come my transfer ratio is so shit? It seems that BT is trying to use all of the upstream, and thus can't get the acks out and so downloads get hammered - just like DC when uncapped.

Running two or more torrents at the same time seems to be self defeating as they fight each other for the bandwidth, then they all decide you're a dirty leecher and impose download caps on you. Sort of like running two or more instances of DC/ED2K.

There is a real good selection of stuff out there available, but when you're getting 1:1 (or worse, currently getting 1:6) I don't much see the point of it.

Porkster · Unread post by **Porkster** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:16 pm

Psycho wrote:Hmmm... ok, so I am trying out this cool new Ãœberprogram.

MIME-type registered, torrent file downloaded, connecting to peers, yeah yeah.

How come my transfer ratio is so shit? It seems that BT is trying to use all of the upstream, and thus can't get the acks out and so downloads get hammered - just like DC when uncapped.

Running two or more torrents at the same time seems to be self defeating as they fight each other for the bandwidth, then they all decide you're a dirty leecher and impose download caps on you. Sort of like running two or more instances of DC/ED2K.

There is a real good selection of stuff out there available, but when you're getting 1:1 (or worse, currently getting 1:6) I don't much see the point of it.

It works on, you get as much as you give I think..

Shareaza has Bittorent, never bothered to use it when search results come up with that type.

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:16 pm

Yea, that's fair enough, but when I'm uploading 10k stable for 10 hours and getting 2k average back, I can't help but feel ripped off.

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:48 pm

Here's some Python(?) source code: choker.pyc

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Maybe a l337 hax0r might be able to work some magic on it?

Anach · Unread post by **Anach** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:32 pm

I tried replacing all the words "dummy" for what i thought was the natural thing to have there. "Psycho", but to my disappointment it did nothing.

S. Traaken · Unread post by **S. Traaken** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:01 pm

The default client isn't wonderful.

Grab the experimental client from http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/ (seems to be down atm) (has upload capping and is a bit better than standard) or burst! from http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/ (doesn't have useful upload capping, but does multi-torrent much better, and is the one I use at the moment), and get netlimiter from http://www.netlimiter.com/index.php (or me on DC) to control speeds (for burst! and DC and whatever you like :)

There is no restriction on 1:1 sharing - it's connection based and not enforced in a strict way (other clients will not let you get stuff from them if they can't get what they need from you - if they have all of a particular torrent, they will share with you).

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 10:28 am

Thanks for the help!

That NetLimiter proggy is awesome - find a process, lock it down. Great stuff!

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