Posted: 12/14/2004 10:37 PM
Post subject: BitComet: torrent manager suggestion to everyone
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nesrocks
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i have always been using the default official bittorrent downlader, but it has always been a pain to continue my downloads after i have stopped them, so i have been thinking of getting a torrent manager, and i saw that the site needs seeders, so i tried downloading BitComet, it's the first one i tried and it works very well, on the installation it asks to associate the .torrent extension to the program, you just say "yes" and the next time you try to download a torrent it will open bitcomet instead. then after the download is finished it is as easy to seed as doing nothing. just dont delete the file and whenever you open bitcomet you'll be a seeder for that file.
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Posted: 12/14/2004 10:38 PM
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Bob_Whoops
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You must of been one of the ten other people that still used the official bit torrent client.
Posted: 12/14/2004 10:44 PM
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nesrocks
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ye i was lazy to try something else, but all the people i know use the official bittorrent client :P it was working fine, the main reason that made me get a manager was because i wanted to seed in an easy way. i think that if you make a research on regular torrent users you will see that many people still use the official release. you are an advanced pc user, you know, in fact this site has a lot of advanced pc users talking :)
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Posted: 12/14/2004 10:46 PM
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Bisqwit
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Seeding in a completely automated optimal way: http://tasvideos.org/HowToRunBtfriendInWindows.html
Posted: 12/14/2004 10:49 PM
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nesrocks
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How To Run Btfriend In Windows wrote:
Open a Dos shell (MS-DOS prompt, or whatever),
this will scare half the users, you know... i am an old DOS user, and i'm lazy to go through all that, imagine other people who were born after win 3.11
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Posted: 12/14/2004 10:49 PM
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Bisqwit
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FODA wrote:
How To Run Btfriend In Windows wrote:
Open a Dos shell (MS-DOS prompt, or whatever),
this will scare half the users, you know...
Just don't take that attitude, and there's no problem.
Posted: 12/14/2004 10:49 PM
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Bob_Whoops
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Well, using your handy new client, you can click on a torrent you are leeching/seeding, then click on 'peers' in the bottom window, and it'll show you who you are conntected to, as well as several things about them, including their client. Most people use Azereus or Bit Tornado.
Posted: 12/14/2004 11:44 PM
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it's not just an attitude problem, many people dont even know what a torrent is, you can't expect them to find torrent managers (at least suprnova.org points you to download the official release). the simpler is always the better. see windows for example, it's made to simplify things so everyone can use it and it sold zillions. if we want more seeding i would say we need to make a shorter suggestion page (even just reading all that scares people away...). just my thoughts. i know many people who dont know even know what is a folder on a local disk. they save the files and then have trouble finding it or never find the file. there is that kind of people and they're not few. i dont mean the timeattacks and seeding are made for them, but i'm just showing there's levels and levels of pc knowledge...
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Posted: 4/23/2005 10:59 AM
Post subject: Re: BitComet: torrent manager suggestion to everyone
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Fortune
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My suggestion is Exeem.
-- Fortune
Posted: 4/23/2005 4:53 PM
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Acmlm
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Bob Whoops wrote:
You must of been one of the ten other people that still used the official bit torrent client.
I guess I'm one of the other ten. The only thing I really hated with the default client was that I couldn't limit my upload (which goes up to 100k/sec), so I was stuck wasting a ton of upload bandwidth whenever I did long enough downloads ... but even that alone is probably a good reason to look for another.
Posted: 4/23/2005 5:17 PM
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Bag_of_Magic_Food
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The new BitTorrent I recently installed lets me set an upload rate limit, but it doesn't let me upload more than three files. So I don't like it, because I used to open up twenty-something windows at a time to help people for lots of different files. Or was that a bad idea anyway?
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude