Jump to content

jroc

Established Members
  • Posts

    358
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by jroc

  1. Damn, I wish I woulda knew about Dos Dragon a few weeks ago. Comcast cut my upload speeds exactly in half (they did do better than RCN, they cut me off completely a few years ago). I just switched back to RCN. I dont think they throttle anymore, but I still use the 9000's port just in case.
  2. hell, I can tell without a doubt whose connected to me by looking at the torrent site peerlist and matching the %'s complete in my client and the site peerlist What exactly are u talking about legumo? And ty osmosis for pointing out the hypocrisy...lol As for 1.5 pretty soon there will be no more features to add. uTorrent has been complete for me since 1.1.7.2 Everything since has been icing on the cake.
  3. I was gonna say the same thing.. Everytime I see a new post I say "who still posting in this?" I just felt left out and had to add my 2 cents.
  4. This is one of the best views I have read so far about open source vs. closed source. (if I typed too slow and someone posted between me yet again, I mean Odium's view) What he said about Bram getting the ball rolling on all these other clients is right on point. One reason open source is lacking is because of the support issues. Whats funny is that ALL problems I have ever had with ANY software I found the best help from forums, not the support ppl from the software maker. Thats the main thing with Windows vs. Linux in corporate America. Linux is cheaper, but the training and support is where the TCO (Im assuming it means Total Cost of Ownership) comes into play. Its silly to me tho. Free/low cost OS vs. Windows. See, to me the TCO will straighten itself out once companies helpdesk/ IT Depts get up to speed with Linux. I always laugh when I see those Microsoft ads about which is really cheaper. Of course Windows will be cheaper as far as support and training cuz its been around and embedded in society longer. But there should be nothing wrong with learning something new. To me, doing your job should be a constant learning experience anyway. Somewhat back on topic, Claria (formerly Gator, one of the originators of adware/spyware) has announced they are getting out of the adware business and putting their adware business model up for auction. And get this: they are also interested in content distribution. When they announced this, 180solutions and another company I cant remember right now (both adware/spyware companies) contacted Claria about their soon to be former business. =| See, some folks do wanna go straight, while some dont. We just need to give PeerFactor the benefit of the doubt in this matter. Like I said at Slyck, whats so great about this society is that we go by: =|"guilty until proven innocent"=| By the way, Im not a supporter for open or closed source. I just use what gets me from A to B the best. The ONLY reason I use Windows is cuz it just has more products made for it than Linux. (Like PS2 vs. Xbox back in their early days. I chose PS2 cuz it had more games, I couldnt give a rats ass about which had better grahics) Developers always target Windows first. Thats the ubiquity of Microsoft. ***Edit*** Again, I be posting too slow. I wouldnt have even posted half of this stuff if Ultima woulda been a lil faster...
  5. Just so folks know, my handle there if nuffinnew. And Ultima, I forgot to put the sarcasm tags after my first post there . lol
  6. Thank you. My thoughts exactly
  7. They have this "ratio hack" ban there. Without letting me explain myself, they assumed I was cheating cuz I had ratios of over 14.00, 6.00, 5.00 (cant remember the actual ratios, these are just examples) on some torrents I had loaded up in one day. By stopping the file(s) near completion, I was still listed at leecher, too. I guess it looked screwy to em, so they gave me the boot. Sometimes I dont like giving out this way to bypass ISP throttling cuz of me n my Oink experience. All I can say is use at ur own risk and use sparingly til u can find a better solution. But please dont use it at Oink unless u wanna get banned
  8. @Ultima: Alot of times when I try to help with troubleshooting, uTorrent be the first site listed....(listing the thread that someone wanted help with) lol
  9. I wasnt gonna post this, but someone else touched on the subject. Anyway: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=53793#p53793 Like I mentioned earlier, it got me banned from the pink pig. But that demon dude had no problem with it, as some other private sites. It still allowed me to upload, keep my ratio decent and contribute to the site til I was up n running normally again.
  10. Feature: Show a special message if utorrent crashes while NOD32 is active. Why for this specific AV? Dont other AV cause crashes? Just wondering why.......
  11. First I tried a port in the 2400's now I use 9301 and 9302. Been able to upload fine since last year. I did try upping my own torrent and it took forever for peers to connect. That was when I was using 1.1.7.2, tho. It might help to find out if RCN allows VOIP and which port it uses. They have their own land-line phone service, so they might see VOIP as the enemy.... **Update 2-7-06*** There is one way I discovered just messing around in my client settings to get around ISP issues. It only helps for downloading then seeding, not upping ur own stuff. It got me banned on the pink pig, so I may or may not discuss it here. Then again, most sites are not stuck up like the pink pig...lol that demon dude had no problem once I explained the situation. the pink pig wouldnt even let me explain. Oh well. Its not cheating, cuz u are doing actual uploading. But the pink pig has a ratio cheat ban thing going on. If caught (or in my case suspected of with no real evidence) cheating u get banned. I may just email the technique to Firon and see what he say. Its a common feature in many clients. I just used it a lil more specifically
  12. The upload speed decrease I reported earlier is gone. I was uploading at 70k. Then when using the latest beta with PEX and PHE (Enabled (all traffic))enabled, my speeds dropped down to 20-25k. Then they bounced around between 25k-50k. But it went back up to 70k after letting it run for about 5-15 min. Been running at 70k+ since midday yesterday. (70k is my upload cap that I set.) I havent tried the latest beta for testing download speeds yet.
  13. So far I noticed my upload speeds drop using either peer exchange and/or Protocol Encryption on a private tracker. I would only need protocol encryption for uploading my own torrents anyway so if this is a permanent side effect it's ok with me.
  14. Ty sir. I noticed the new title....u moving up in the world, huh... Also, whats a good recommendation on the PE options?
  15. Ok. We gonna need a lil explanation on the different Protocol Encryption options =D
  16. - Feature: Protocol Encryption (compatible with future azureus) cant wait to test this out!!
  17. I can see it now: torrent sites recommending users to read this guide...great job on this Ic3 and to all who helped contribute to it.
  18. add RCN/Starpower to the list. Im using a port in the 9000's now and it seems to work (so far) cuz I have peer.lazy_bitfield off and I've been seeding for like a week now nonstop, no drop in speeds. My ISP would throttle my uploads speeds to zero 5-15 min after I was finished DLing. And I couldnt upload my own torrents. And my ISP would make connected peers or peers trying to connect jump around like jumping beans. They still jump some, but not as bad. Ex., I would go from having 6 peers to 15, then 8, etc....... One more thing. I used to had to have a nice amount connected to seed. Now I can seed with as little as 2-6 connected.
  19. I think some of the multiple instances is due to the fact that the new version is named "utorrent.exe" The betas all had their actual names in the exe. If anyone still have some of the older .exe's that were named "utorrent.exe", that my be the problem. I use shortcuts and have to make sure that it points to the current version.
  20. ^^lol!! @dcorban: Actually, If u take away all of Az's many extra features, I think Az default settings are better for noobs tha uT's. Especially in the advanced options. Plus the auto connection optimizer that Az has fills in settings automatically where in uT we have to set em ourselves. Now if twizttid13 meant that, than Az is a client more for noobs than uT. I think thats why in later versions, the default settings are gonna be different in uT. uT actually made me wanna go back and mess around with Az's advanced options, just to see some things. (then again, I might be giving twizttid13 too much credit....... But hey, I always give folks the benefit of the doubt. He will let me know if Im right or wrong real soon......)
  21. I dont think silver will ever close a thank u thread..... unless hes an undercover Az dev.. LOL!!
  22. TY µT for giving me back my PC from that damn blue frog! To downlad torrents and have ur pc freeze more often than not : is it worth it? to startup a client and wait for it to load/initialize: is it worth it? to exit a client and wait til a grey screen unloads for it to exit: is it worth it? To be able to DL clips from free websites and still download torrents at the same time: ..................priceless................
  23. What I meant was that if a person has the 4226 event, and their client doesnt have a work around and they dont use the patch, it will effect them. I didnt mean me. What I shoulda said was that I used the patch to go from un-connectable to connectable. Not by connecting to someone who was using the patch. I used that extremely low end type of PC as an example cuz we all dont have the same PC setup. Some torrent users are still running Win98. Some only have 64MB Ram w/Intergrated sound and graphics. Hell, Some are even still using dial-up. LOL!! That BitComet link was the only BT client that I know of that had officially addressed 4226 on their site. I learned about 4226 way b4 BitComet found out about it. I learned about it when SP2 first came out. To my knowledge, Shareaza was one of the first to address it and update their client accordingly. PC's, Internet connections, seed/peers, client settings all effect speeds to me. Its just the PC's, Internet connections and Bt clients can be tweaked. (some might not know abut MTU, TTL, TCP Recieve Window, etc in regards to their Internet connection.) And u right about Az seeming to be better out the box. I even said that in another post. Az has different default settings in their advanced options than uT. Some ppl suggest changing some advanced settings in uT to increase speeds. So Im contradicting myself right now. Maybe we should ask for different default settings, especially in the advanced options. (which I think someone did asked for and is going to be in the later versions of uT, if Im not mistaken.)
  24. Now why would we do that when we all have different PC's & Internet connections? IMO, U set values based on those 2 things. Thats somewhat true if they both 'right out the box.' Lets try this as an example: Az vs. uT on a Win98 PC w/ 64MB Ram that has Intergrated graphics using 24MB Ram. So the available Ram U have is 44MB. U see where Im going, right? Again, the settings based on ur PC & Internet connection. Another main thing is that some clients have a SP2 limit work around built in. I know Az and Bitcomet do. if a client doesnt have a work around built in, u may need the patch. Whether it helps give u more connections or more connections faster is debatable. But I do know It helps me get connectable. So it can be the client that is making the speed difference. And, connectable=more connections=better speeds. Some info from Bitcomet on event 4226: http://www.bitcomet.com/news/20040908_xp2_4226.htm
×
×
  • Create New...