Comments on: BitTorrent

By: All Narfed Up » Blog Archive » The Poor Man’s Tivo

All Narfed Up » Blog Archive » The Poor Man’s Tivo — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:25:30 +0000

[...] For the record, I’m using ZipTorrent now. It’s light-weight, too. I think Mark told me about it. Good stuff. Edit: Yup, it was Mark (not directly to me, just in general). [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:56:09 +0000

I agree in some ways David. I’m running 700meg of memory so while RAM is not huge issue, any processes which I’m effectively running as background tasks will impact when I open numerous programs. On a single drive machine where a swap file is essentially useless I like to keep my eye on things :)

By: David Russell

David Russell — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:46:34 +0000

I use Azureus, and I am perfectly happy with it so I don’t want to have to go through the bother of configuring my system for another client.

As for the RAM issue, ANY program that uses RAM (and is not essential ie antivirus/firewall) needs to be closed for optimal game performance, and for anything non-game, 20Mb of RAM is unlikely to make a difference, unless you have a microscopic amount of RAM and are running 200 Internet Exploiter windows.

By: Cameron aka desk003

Cameron aka desk003 — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:22:51 +0000

I use shareaza. I tried bittornado but couldnt understand how to make it work.

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:14:08 +0000

Yeah I use BitTornado, too. I like that you can download a file (or a bunch of files) in order. I’ve had a lot of stalled torrents that leave me with a useless file of random bits. I haven’t had the error issue spoken above, though.

By: -slh-

-slh- — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:30 +0000

I might try that this weekend…still using BitTirnado, which is good, but has suddenly started throwing errors when closing a torrent.