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P2P (Bittorrent etc) configuration & use discussion...ongoing (Only place to post!)

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    #302
    DisasterIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭DisasterIRL


    MooseJam wrote: »
    lol it'd probably be cheaper to buy the stuff, how much would a server cost ?

    Well I saw one advertised for like 500 smackers in a dell business mag, but you can change pretty much any pc into one.


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    #303
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    Has anyone tried the TCP patch to increase the number of half open connections?


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    #304
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    MooseJam wrote: »
    lol it'd probably be cheaper to buy the stuff, how much would a server cost ?

    remote dedicated server may set you back from $30+ a month, if you got your own and you were luck it might be $50 odd for perhaps 70GB storage and maybe 1TB bandwidth.

    Of course any copyright material would be against pretty much 100% of server providers.


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    #305
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    coldfire1x wrote: »
    Has anyone tried the TCP patch to increase the number of half open connections?

    Yea I tried that while it was working and I did get an increase in speed - but NTL went offline at the same time by chance and I'd thought I'd broken it so I removed it, I did get an increase in speed but that was before they throttled it, don't think it would make any difference now


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    #306
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    Tazzle wrote: »
    I'm on UPC and getting 1200k/s+ on torrents atm from private sites. I find the router complete cock, it seems to like messing with port forwarding. My solution was to disable upnp on it.

    Yea quite recently my torrents haev gone to pants. with torrents that had 35k seeds and about 60k peers, and I was still getting from 15-30kb which is terrible.

    howdid you change taht setting on yours? when I login to the modem and I can only seem to view the modems preset settings.
    also I see some people saying abut going into utorent options - speed guide
    I don't see an option there to tick the enable encription?
    ONly see the set speed options?


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    #307
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    Duffff-Man wrote: »
    I have Eircom 3mb broadband and my download speeds aren't anything to write home about. Generally between 50kbps or so. I was using bittorrent, and am now going to utorrent a go. Can anyone suggest anything to improve my speed?
    Try encrypting the outgoing connections

    Preferences --> BitTorrent --> Protocol : Encrypted


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    #308
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    barnicles wrote: »
    Try encrypting the outgoing connections

    Preferences --> BitTorrent --> Protocol : Encrypted

    found the setting i did as you said, downloading at 965kb/s now :) good stuff thanks. lets see how long it'll last
    been steady now the last 7 mins


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    #309
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    i'll have to try that myself


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    #310
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    How'd it go MooseJam?


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    #311
    DominoDub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Will need to watch this one close ...

    Looks like Rapidshare are having a hard time in a Court Case in it's native Germany. I do hope they come out the other end ok!

    http://idolator.com/5057694/rapidshare-might-be-rapidly-shutting-down-if-it-doesnt-comply-with-copyright-law

    http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=844&fid1=34018

    I just signed up for the year !


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    #312
    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,758 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    MooseJam wrote: »
    i'll have to try that myself


    I've always used encryption. doesn't work. :(


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    #313
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    What are they throttling exactly?
    All BT traffic or just a few specific ports?


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    #314
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    Anybody know how to setup uTorrent so i can browse and torrent?


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    #315
    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,758 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    barnicles wrote: »
    What are they throttling exactly?
    All BT traffic or just a few specific ports?


    Seems to be sandvine type thing. Download is slowed and upload basically zero.


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    #316
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    ^^^^^

    Ah :(


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    #317
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    barnicles wrote: »
    How'd it go MooseJam?

    Oh I can't download untill 00:30, agreed schedule with the family :), I'll try it later and if it works will report back


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    #318
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    just to note aswell, i also changed my port to a random port


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    #319
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    What was the previous one,Lenny?


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    #320
    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,758 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    Lads I can still download as well but it's the upload that matters most to me.
    No upload on a private tracker means no ratio.


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    #321
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    JPA wrote: »
    Lads I can still download as well but it's the upload that matters most to me.
    No upload on a private tracker means no ratio.
    Whats your DL speed?


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    #322
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    think the prevous port was 8001.
    just downloadin another torrent now.. and its back to the way it was...
    its odd going ons


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    #323
    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,758 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    barnicles wrote: »
    Whats your DL speed?


    My speed isn't as good as it was, usually around 100 kB when normally I could max out my 10 MB on a private tracker.


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    #324
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    all this talk about private trackers.. could someone send me an invite to one or link in pm to see what all the banter is about


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    #325
    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,758 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    Lenny wrote: »
    all this talk about private trackers.. could someone send me an invite to one or link in pm to see what all the banter is about


    Not very subtle eh.


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    #326
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    well trying to ask in a disgreet way


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    #327
    Tooorbooo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Tooorbooo


    this theme is not for asking invites, read before posting lol ... any changes with UPC torrent downloading?


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    #328
    The-Game
    Registered Users Posts: 659 ✭✭✭The-Game


    No change here, ive set a random port and its disastrously bad, less then 15kb/s :(

    **edit** - wait shot up to 650kb!! and dropping to 300~ now, interesting.....


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    #329
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    This is not the place for requesting or issues invites to private trackers with very questionable content


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    #330
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    yea i found that keep changing to random ports and it would shoot up and then go back down again after a few mins. what the content of the private trackers would be questionable, but they're private so who knows what they contain. Yes i am curious myself as to what is behind them private doors
    but what I can't seem to understand is if they're throttling downloadeds. howcome public torrents go slow and private torrents go fast, throttling is throttling isn't it, or is it because they know what the public trackers are?


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    #331
    The-Game
    Registered Users Posts: 659 ✭✭✭The-Game


    No its not a case of public being throttled and private being free, im using private trackers and i am getting throttled on them too with the exception of last nights burst of speed!


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