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"Torrent software?"

Since I'm going to be downloading the Far Cry demo tonight, I've heard one or two mentions of the ol' torrent software. I've had poor experiences with this method but I'm willing to give it another go.

Can you recommend me a good version that is both easy to use and works well. The past programs I've had have been quite pissy and retarded - download speeds of 1-2kbps - 15 max. Unacceptable.

So, what would you recommend then?

In that case, you'd think if the software was both correctly configured and well coded you ought to be downloading at your downstream limit.

It said at the time that I was connected to 79 people or something like that

Lindgren wrote:
> Don or†ega wrote:
> I use the shadow client as well.
>
> Speed can be slow for quite a while initially but once it gets
> warmed
> up its fine :)
>
> I had it running for nearly 4 hours and all it managed was 14MB! That
> can't be right surely.

Depends. Its P2P, so your speed is only as good as the uploads of the people your connected to. If its a un popular file you may only be connected to 2 people with a total of 5K/s upload. So if your downloading it you may only get 5K/s which is 56K modem speeds.

Sometimes I get files fast at 110K/s sometimes there going at 10k/s. All depends on how many people I am connected to and what upload speed they have, and also how fast other people are downloading.

Don or†ega wrote:
> I use the shadow client as well.
>
> Speed can be slow for quite a while initially but once it gets warmed
> up its fine :)

I had it running for nearly 4 hours and all it managed was 14MB! That can't be right surely.

Lindgren wrote:
>I've done all that but I'm still getting speeds of about 8-10kbs

The thing is, with P2P, your download speeds are (usually) limited by the other person's/people's upload speeds. If your speeds are consistently between 8 and 10kb/s on different files from different users then the chances are the program's not set up right or it doesn't like your system for some reason. You could try a different client, or, failing that, I'd recommend using a mixture of eMule and Soulseek for applications and music respectively.

Having never really used this torrent thing I don't know much about it, but it's most likely there's something not set up correctly.

I use the shadow client as well.

Speed can be slow for quite a while initially but once it gets warmed up its fine :)

I've done all that but I'm still getting speeds of about 8-10kbs

And you need to make sure that the ports you open on the firewall are the same ones that the bittorrent software is using - as adrian said, you do this within the client itself.

HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> How do you open up certain ports?

This only matters if you're behind a firewall. I've got a hardware firewall so I have to use the tool that came with it. If you've got a software firewall then it should be in the options somewhere - you need to allow incoming connections.

HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> unknown kernel wrote:
> You need to open up or forward ports 6881-6889 for the
> program to work effectively.
>
> How do you open up certain ports?

Use the software from the link in a previous post.