Torrents

The Bollox

is the discussion of torrents (Bit Torrent) a bannable offence?

I just want to know before I go making a proper thread on the subject

HappyCrackHead

it could probably go in the computer forum

however theres nothing illegal about bittorrents. its more or less what people choose to do with them that can be construed as less than legal.

RE*AC*TOR

no, unless you discuss illegal activities

bittorent has many legal uses, and in itself is not illegal - and is free for discussion

just don't link to any illegal material or "promote" illegal activities

The Bollox

right, so if one would want advice on which application to use, it would be a legitimate topic?

RE*AC*TOR

just use utorrent

and yes it would be legitimate - and there are many threads already on that subject

The Bollox

cool thanks man

monkeyfudge

I second uTorrrent.

Started using it recently and it's very good... I'm downloading Linux distros like there's no tomorrow.

muppetkiller

yip uTorrent is the Business

aidan_walsh

Using the search before posting isn't a hangable offense either.

Giblet

Either is posting a new thread.

Redrocket

best client, uses the least amount of ram,
www.utorrent.com

azureus used to make machine crawl to halt then fall over and die
or maybe it was java

Wertz

Never had a problem with az, but µtorrent is a nice client for a slower comp

monkeyfudge

Wertz wrote:

µtorrent

Show off!

Selik

Been using utorrent for about a month now and it's da shizzle!

Piece of piss to use as well and I can get ridiculously fast speeds with it.

DOLEMAN

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'm downloading Linux distros like there's no tomorrow.

the_syco

Giles wrote:

Been using utorrent for about a month now and it's da shizzle!

Piece of piss to use as well and I can get ridiculously fast speeds with it.

Second that! Utorrent ftw!

Devon

Azureus isn't that bad either guys...

Funky Munky

I use Sharaza as my BT client. Although Ive heard good things recently about ABC Torrent

Khannie

I like azureus a lot, though I don't really use torrents. This probably belongs in the computers forum. If in doubt about stuff like that you can PM me. I do get PM's of a simlar nature fairly regularly.

What's so good about utorrent then lads / ladies? Maybe with the dual core I don't notice azureus slowing things. It's a lovely interface though.

skywalker

Some of the things I like about utorrent over other clients:

you can weight specific files so they come down in the order you want.

you can remove certain files from the torrent altogether if you dont want them.

As was said already its VERY low on resources.

Doodlebug

Utorrent - very cool & very light on resources - just well written I guess.

Used to use Kazaa-lite (de-spam-ified version), but it was becoming unreliable just before my old PC was retired!

the_syco

Khannie wrote:

What's so good about utorrent then lads / ladies? Maybe with the dual core I don't notice azureus slowing things. It's a lovely interface though.

Main reason I find utorrent better than azureus: utorrent runs and azureus didn't. Something to do with opening ports. I have NAT set up, and all, but Azureus couldn't connect to the net, or the net couldn't connect to Azureus Remember the wizard that pops up when you run Azureus for the first time, and it checks the port? It could never see that the port was open, and refused to run.

Utorrent, on the other hand, connects no problem, and can find seeders faster than my previous client (Burst!).