P2P / Torrent App

[ranran]

While I know that there are several PBIs for "file sharing" which one works best for doing dwnloads from the web?

Ktorrent just is too slow,,Never seems to get above 30K download speed.

Azureus has issue attempting to downlo9ad it's own updatyes

Limewire is good, but you can't download stuff unless it's on the "Limewire network".

The stuff I get is usually from torrent spy or ISOHunt. On XP I used bitlord
but there is no *bsd version.

Any Ideas?

[dracheflieger]

The speed of the torrents, for the most part, are conditional on how many seeds there are. The less seeds, the slower the downloading.

[ranran]

The speed of the torrents, for the most part, are conditional on how many seeds there are. The less seeds, the slower the downloading.

That I know, but I tested it one day. I downloaded something from torrent spy on my son's XP box. I stopped the download and tried it on my BSD box. The speeds went from 300k/sec (XP) to 30K/sec (BSD)

[damienjp]

I believe that the more ppl that have the file(seeds) the faster and the less the slower... Maybe ppl logged off when you was testing....

[TerryP]

I don't think that many people could've logged off that fast...

[ranran]

I don't think that many people could've logged off that fast...

That's my point. While it is possible for many people to log off at once, I'm talking a time span of under 1 minute.

[Apatewna]

Who needs torrents when we have open source software...

[antik]

Who needs torrents when we have open source software...

Torrents is efficient way of distribution Open Source Software. Instead of slow downloads from some ftp server, you'll got maximum speed shared between multiple hosts automatically. You can lend your pipe to others in fair manner.

[nowax]

While I know that there are several PBIs for "file sharing" which one works best for doing dwnloads from the web?

Ktorrent just is too slow,,Never seems to get above 30K download speed.

Azureus has issue attempting to downlo9ad it's own updatyes

Limewire is good, but you can't download stuff unless it's on the "Limewire network".

The stuff I get is usually from torrent spy or ISOHunt. On XP I used bitlord
but there is no *bsd version.

Any Ideas?

I've got the same problem with torrents under Linux and PC-BSD. On WinXP (which i will delete soon) everything works fine.

[DragnLord]

I use rtorrent (no pretty gui) which usually gives me speeds between 500KB/s and 1MB/s depending on peers.
Your speed issue is most likely due to the settings you are using with your client(s).