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" µ " - I switched back to the german keyborad (with US, British or Polish it wont work). I did the same last time, but the result was as above ... May depend not really on the OS language version, but rather on the installed characters and coding schemes (at the very beginning of OS Installtion). Tjaaaa, changes avery time - in your post as well. Changing web pages coding might help (and might make a real big mess ).

Glad to hear the encryption works well for you! I had to turn it off just yesterday - got too many Azurues clients causing hash fails due to their wrong implementation of encryption. However it wasn't always that bad - will try it out once more when I've finished the current one. @ Icedog: for every positive opinion on your speed guide your ISP should give you extra 1 kB/s upload speed

My congrats, BSH - nice project for our logo and might be also useful in case of lager icons (as boo has already written)! I'm just wondering, how the 16x16 mini icon of hive will look like .. but let's give him some time to finish Btw. as to *.torrent file icons I personally like and use that document one with our classic "µ" letter (just checked - made by Decaritae). Normal version, not that one with bold rounding. Might be a good default solution, what do you think??? :cool: PS. Why a properly written "micro" turns into some crap after submitting the post? PS. As I don't want to OT (too much ) - thanks Firon for the quick answer!

Thanks Glad to hear someone finds it useful I always find well seeded swarms on private trackers only - I personally think both private and public should exist, but concernig the number of leechers on the latter I try to use the private ones, if I can only find there what I want. Must be - the larger the number (to some rational limit ), the better the chance to get a good seeder (or a well uploading peer). You would have to experiment on your own - always depends on a swarm. I never just start downloading and leave it like that. Usually I mess with settings for some time (providing I have enough time). I know, it's much en effort with ADSL. They fixed WLAN at work only a couple of days ago ... When only seeding I think 2 kB/s is the lowest reasonable speed, while downloading I rarely care, but I don't set the number of slots too high, so let's say 1 kB/s. Talking about ADSL, of course. The second one is almost a robbery, that's why I stick to 1Mbit - I wouldn't have a chance to make use of 2Mbit download speed and seeding would be even more painful. I'm looking for some small ISP with slow, but symetric connection (easier to find in my home country than in Germany). PS (OT ) : nice avi tool there! Must try it out some time @ user77 : I would do more tests on many different servers and then count the avr. speeds. You should also limit both up and down beneath your max rates - see the Guide and FAQ section.

I would also like to add my 0.03$ to this discussion I'm a mobile person - I move with my notebook between my work and home all the time. At work I've got a symetric connection (VPN university network), the rare gift only few can benefit from It's hard to estimate its max up and down speed, but I would rather say that upload is even better than download. My absolute record while seeding is about 700 KB/s Usually I have to limit my bandwidth, since I'm not alone there, and I sometimes stay afterhours just to seed. CPU and HDD do a lot of hard work at those speeds. On the other hand, at home I've got some crappy ADSL 1024/128 (however I do manage to get those 128 kbits up). As you can imagine I have to change my network and torrent settings everytime I change my place, what is rather annoying ... What works best for me: in well seeded swarms I always connect to a very limited number of peers, no matter where I am - I stick to icedog's conservative settings. In badly seeded swarms I almost always connect to a larger number of peers, even at home and it does help me to get better download! Think I'm acting like a leech sometimes, but I always seed back afterwards, depending on a swarm (ratios between 1.5 and 3-4). And I don't connect to more than 50, even at work. What I always do: I change the max number of connected peers per torrent and upload slots, while only seeding, and limit the number according to my current internet access. I always make sure I don't keep people connected, while giving them some pathetic upload or even nothing (e.g. at home like 10 peers, at work like 20-30). While seeding and downloading I first start the download task, and then the seeding one(s). I connect to more peers in the downloaded torrent and to few in the seeded one(s), since my max number of connected peers is (much) lower than the sum of those "per torrent" (provided I'm not only downloading). I think the above rules might help someone. For power users all that may sound obvious, but this is a "guide" topic, and most people are just simple users Hope I'm understandable - it's hard to speak and write two foreign languages all the time and switch between them cheers/ M

It's really hard to get through this topic, especially when someone has just signed in From my point of view these web site designs are the best : http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wasppage4mc.png http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=greenbeebanner28mv.jpg I also like all those paw icons, posted somewhere in the very first pages - both blue and green, rather with claws than without Of course, I understand that the main page logo and the main icon must be the same (don't they?), but as for now, I just couldn't imagine the wasp beeing an icon - when minimized, it will loose its charm @ BloodStaindHurricane : I do understand your point of view - above, I just wanted to comment on the end effect, no matter who has created it.