Supercharge your torrent downloads! (with Azureus only..)

[Luke122]

Azureus Plugin! (http://www.dailytech.com/Clever+Plugin+Eases+ISPs+BitTorrent+Pains+Promises +Obscene+Speeds/article11697.htm)

Using geolocation, the Ono Project plugin for Azureus will locate local (network local, not physical local) peers, and increase your download speeds by up to 800%!

The link above takes you to a better explanation, and a download link. :D

[calumc]

It's actually the other way around, this plugin finds peers geographically. Finding peers on your local network is a completely different thing...
I can see this being useful for some of the huge-swarmed public torrents (like linux distros :p) but for anyone really into their torrents this isnt gonna make very much difference to a torrent which is being privately tracked and seeded from a few 100/100 lines.

Also I'd hate to see what this would do the already huge amount of system resources AZ uses....

[XcOM]

keep this thread above board guys

And i noticed that azureus owned my network the last few times i have used it, any other application or computer for that matter on the same internet connection took a hit becuase azureus was killing the bandwidth even though i had limited it.

[simon275]

I never liked azureus when downloading legal linux distributions it sits there and slowly chews up memory until your computer crashes. µTorrent is what I use.

[XcOM]

personally i use bit tornado mainly becuase its quick, simple and works cross platform.

Also theres a linux server that will only accept connections from bit tornado, and i love this server, the fastest downloads i've seen, 2.4MB per second from them through BT

[calumc]

rtorrent absolutely rocks for linux, it gives you all the stats that AZ does but with a tiny footprint.

As for speeds I've done 9MB/s up and down before (that was on a server tho :p)

Edit: just remembered the fastest ive actually seen on a single torrent is 23MB/s but that was just a screenshot of a friend's server :(

[XcOM]

sweet, might look into that for my linux system

[FrooP]

yeah dont we all need millions of linux distris? ;)

[XcOM]

i currently have about 60GB of linux distros, serious,

Fedora, Suse, ubuntu, Xbuntu, Kbuntu, ARCH, Mint, DSL, Debian, Gentoo, Sabyan amd BSD

Plus i keep copys of all the apps i install for later use.

[Omega]

I use uTorrent as well. Small resources footprint, efficient, etc.

Also, mod note: Any mention of illegal torrenting will get this thread locked and deleted, and all offending members banned for one week minimum. You've been warned.

[Quakken]

I use azureus. It works well enough, I haven't seen speeds too low and it connects to enough peers, I don't think I could do much better than that. It's way better then normal bittorrent that I had before that.

[calumc]

AZ is second only to rtorrent for connecting to peers and all that. But at the end of the day speeds really do depend on the peers you're downloading from ;)