Top 10 Bittorrent Tools And Tricks

[dserban 0]

BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for making the most of it. Some are must-haves, while others are a waste of time. Climb aboard for a look at 10 of the best BitTorrent utilities, tools, and resources for finding and managing your downloads.

http://lifehacker.com/350405/top-10-bittorrent-tools-and-tricks

[yordan 10]

Also remember that bittorrents are often used for illegal purposes, which is against Xisto chart. Moreover, using torrents is forbidden in a lot of countries, and some Internet providers have to report to police the name and address of their users which are dowloading via torrents, in order that police people know in which house they have to go in order to look for illegal copies of software and movies. So, dserban, when you give such info, you must also warn the user that what they are doing is probably very dangerous (seing the cops knocking at your doors and bringing away your hard disks and all your CD's in order to verify everything is a really disagreable experience).

[wutske 0]

Also remember that bittorrents are often used for illegal purposes, which is against Xisto chart. Moreover, using torrents is forbidden in a lot of countries, and some Internet providers have to report to police the name and address of their users which are dowloading via torrents, in order that police people know in which house they have to go in order to look for illegal copies of software and movies. So, dserban, when you give such info, you must also warn the user that what they are doing is probably very dangerous (seing the cops knocking at your doors and bringing away your hard disks and all your CD's in order to verify everything is a really disagreable experience).

bitTorrent isn't only use for illegal purposes. A lot of linux distributions are downloadable using torrents, so is a lot of other freeware (openoffice, cdburnerxp pro, ...). It's a fact that legal torrent use is marginal compared to the illegal use, but we must remember that the torrent network wasn't made for illegal purpose (so are other filesharing networks, none of them was initialy made for sharing music, videos, warez, ...)

[yordan 10]

OK, I muss confess my warning could be a little bit too strong. However, do you think that the name "lifehacker" currently stands for "doing nothing other than fully legal and non-intrusive stuff" ? Simply, standard people shoud be warned that some acts are sometimes not politically correct and could be somehow risky.

[wutske 0]

again, the term hacking doesn't always have to mean doing something illegal. I mean, Top 10 Food&Drink hacks ?

 

[skedad 0]

A few of my friends use bittorrents, but I don't really do too much. For a while I used a lot of Kazaa and LimeWire for files, but even that is a rarity. I had a classmate get suspended for overkilling the bandwidth of our campus downloading cartoon shows over BitTorrent... quite funny. But I do like that there are a lot for use, but since it is becoming a 'shady' practice, I try to use it when necessary.

[docduke 0]

Lifehacker is a legitimate website, so far as I have seen. Here are some pages I have recently bookmarked:

http://lifehacker.com/336991/free-tools-to-manage-new-years-resolutionshttp://lifehacker.com/software/feature/organize-your-money-in-2008-with-wesabe-334283.phphttp://lifehacker.com/336976/how-to-set-up-your-new-computerhttp://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800-321913.phphttp://lifehacker.com/software/benchmarks/hackintosh-vs-mac-pro-vs-macbook-pro-benchmarks-322866.php

Copy and paste if you want to check. I don't have his website in my browser bookmarks, but I often find links to him from other websites.

 

The last two are a particularly good illustration of his projects. Transform a PC into a MAC. He bought all the parts (and the software) legitimately, as far as I can tell, but I certainly wouldn't have a clue how to do something like that without help!

 

I find such projects inspirational!

[Unregistered 0111405241546 0]

Most people associate torrenting with pirating, of course there are legitimate people sharing things like openoffice or linuxs like ubuntu, but to be honest, most people who torrent pirate stuff. I can't deny that I don't use bittorrent just to get legal stuff lol. Anyways, I would have to agree with the number one on that list, uTorrent is the best client out there, it's incredibly light, and gets the job done.

[ethergeek 0]

If you want to vilify BitTorrent for piracy, you need to blame TCP, UDP, and IP too. All things are used for legitimate purposes as well as illegal activities.

[yordan 10]

If you want to vilify BitTorrent for piracy, you need to blame TCP, UDP, and IP too. All things are used for legitimate purposes as well as illegal activities.

We are just warning you that, if in your contry the Police Department has people watching the BitTorrent users, you should be very careful, you will need to justify every piece of software in case of physical control, as well as every movie or every music they will find in your home. It's the problem of internet, it's the world of freedom, and some people abuse, some other think that it's legit because it's easy.

[docduke 0]

Thanks for the information on Bit Torrent. I have never successfully used it before (I tried once about 2 years ago), and I just spent a frustrating day repeating that experience. I got it installed, but after some hesitation, it quit every time I tried to download my target. Knoppix, after more than a year, has a new version out, 5.3.0, and it is only available by torrent. I wanted to get it.I have a router which enforces Zone Alarm (ZA) usage on my network, and multiple computers, each running ZA. I picked one old Win 98 computer, and reconfigured ZA on it so that none of the other computers could be reached from it. (Call me paranoid! ) Then I installed Bit Torrent on it, and tried to download the file. I got a diagnostic telling me that it could not accept incoming connections -- I should fix my firewall. After a few minutes, it quit. I tried many things in both ZA and the router, but nothing worked. I have browsed through the Bit Torrent website and the LifeHacker stuff, but haven't yet found any troubleshooting information. Anyway, I appreciate the links, and if I find some answers, I'll report back here.

[dserban 0]

Hi docduke,

Maybe this could help you.
In order to make sure that the port which your torrent client is listening on is reachable from the Internet, I recommend you use this site:
http://www.canyouseeme.org/
As a last resort, you may find the netstat -ano command (or a little program from Sysinternals called TCPView) useful in order to really make sure that your assumption about the listening port is correct.
This should be enough for you to start troubleshooting, and I don't think you need to make your Win 98 PC the default DMZ server (that would be overkill).

Edited March 9, 2008 by dserban (see edit history)

[yordan 10]

I have never successfully used it before (I tried once about 2 years ago), and I just spent a frustrating day repeating that experience. I got it installed, but after some hesitation, it quit every time I tried to download my target.

I'm not sure that I really understant what happened, docduke, so maybe my answer will be "a cote de la plaque" (far near the target, some french forumers here should appreciate)Did you try installing a server, or a client ? This is the first part, I think a standalone person or home network cannot be a server by himself.
Secondly, if you want to be a client, three things must occur simultaneously.
. The client software must run correctly.
. The total network must let you access the server.
. The owner of the file you want to download must bu up and running.
For instance, when, for my job, I need to install a new Linux distro, I cannot get it via torrent, because our company firewall blocks me.
And, home, I cannot download some ... err... files ... err... because my ISP firewall blocks the server.

So, maybe some of the bad conditions I meet at work or at home are also met at your side, that could be the reason for the torrents not to work properly.
And, of course, at home I have a 512 kilobytes Internet access, so I don't really see the power of torrents, that's why I never use them.
What I would suggest is first to test your home installation. Take a freshly installed PC (no firewall, no antispy, no antivirus, a quite sacrifyable system, for instance an USB BartPE system which you can easily reload from a backup.
Then, take a good torrent client, a lot of them are advertised around here. Then, downlod something, what you download hos no importance. For instance download the last porn movie abstract from a high-rated site (most of clients rate the site for a precise file, saying the number of downloads and the current state (green - very good, yellow - maybe, or red - forget about it).
Then, if you are able to download something, this means that your PC is correctly installed and your Internet provider lets you download. Then, add a firewall and see if you still can download the same file. Then add the antispy and the antivirus sofwares, and see where the error was.
And, of course, if you cannot follow my insructions because you have no system you can sacrify, then... keep away from toorent servers !
Hope this helped
Yordan

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P.S. Sorry having been so long. Maybe I should have written this in a tutorial section and put the link here ?

[iGuest 3]

Transmission Torrent for LinuxTop 10 Bittorrent Tools And Tricks

I'm using Transmission with Linux to download a legitimate version of Sabayon Linux.  It's the Christmas Special DVD which includes a bunch of FREE Linux computer games.  It's a whopping 3.6gb.  I have to use a Bittorrent client to reduce the download speed.  Otherwise, my wife would complain that her Youtube videos are too slow and keep stopping.  

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