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Post subject: Best Torrent Client?
 Posted: Nov 29, 2006 - 07:52 PM
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Joined: Oct 22, 2005
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Location: California, USA
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| Which is the best torrent client to use for Kanotix? I live in school so I have no control over the router or firewall, but I used to use Azureus on Windows XP and I knew how to tweak the settings |
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Post subject: RE: Best Torrent Client?
Posted: Nov 29, 2006 - 07:59 PM
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Joined: Oct 12, 2005
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You can use Azureus!
Code:
apt-get update
apt-get install azureus
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Posted: Nov 29, 2006 - 10:05 PM
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For me is Ktorrent. I had big problems with Azureus: connection to Internet completely lost for all software every few minutes...
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Post subject: RE: Best Torrent Client?
Posted: Nov 29, 2006 - 10:06 PM
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Joined: Aug 09, 2004
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Location: Brisbane Australia
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| I recently started using torrents and played with azureus and ktorrent before settling on ktorrent. Azureus is more fully featured but I figure I don't want such a heavyweight java app running as a background process. Ktorrent does everything you need and does it well. It also looks better than azureus given that it is a native KDE app. |
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Post subject: RE: Best Torrent Client?
Posted: Nov 29, 2006 - 10:14 PM
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Joined: Nov 10, 2004
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Location: Berlin
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| heard about ktorrent being blocked on some trackers - real or rumor? |
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Post subject: RE: Best Torrent Client?
Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 12:26 AM
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Joined: Oct 03, 2006
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Location: Berlin
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| Seems to be real but I don't know why, under Windows I'm used to uTorrent. |
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 12:35 AM
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Joined: Oct 22, 2005
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Location: California, USA
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| I want to use something different...I tried using Azureus but it doesn't download anything which I think is because of my school firewall and I have no control over it...If I use ktorrent I can download the same thing, but at slow speeds like 3 kb/s |
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 12:40 AM
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Location: Berlin
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Well, maybe at your school they are slowing down ports which are usually used by Torrent clients. Or it's a bad seeder / leecher ratio, network overload, whatever  |
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 02:55 AM
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 03:41 AM
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Location: Berlin
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Thanks for the uTorrent (guide) link but I think I will wait for the real Linux client then 
Edit: Seems that there is quite a number of Torrent clients avail. but if you want working ipfilter.dat support then you are quite limited. Therefore uTorrent will be definitly nice to see. |
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 09:19 AM
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Joined: Oct 22, 2005
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Location: California, USA
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Crest wrote:
Well, maybe at your school they are slowing down ports which are usually used by Torrent clients. Or it's a bad seeder / leecher ratio, network overload, whatever
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 11:45 AM
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Joined: Jun 07, 2006
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Location: ljubljana, slovenia
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Hello!
IIRC There used to be a problem with files larger than 2 GB (or was the problem
with particular filesystem) with KTorrent. What is the best linux torrent client
for files larger than 4 GB ???
Thanks, Roman |
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 12:02 PM
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Joined: Nov 10, 2004
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Location: Berlin
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fat32 is limited at 4gb.. besides that (copying >4gb-files from reiserfs to fat), i never had trouble with t-clients downloading large files.. and i used ktorrent too. so, i dont think it depends on the used torrent-client.
is your incoming-folder on a fat32-partition? |
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 02:11 PM
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Joined: Jun 07, 2006
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Location: ljubljana, slovenia
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Hello!
No, it was not FAT32 IIRC. Maybe the incoming folder was located on the network share ...
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Posted: Nov 30, 2006 - 02:22 PM
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Joined: Jun 21, 2006
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| i like azureus the most, its very configurable and whenever i tried something else i allways missed some feature from azureus. You can have it send you a sms (if you pay) when a particular file is finished! And you can have it run ip-filters to highten security |
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Posted: Dec 01, 2006 - 03:31 AM
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Joined: Dec 01, 2006
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That guide for running utorrent through wine is gigantic. Simply put it somewhere logical like ~/apps/utorrent/utorrent.exe, navigate to it, and run wine utorrent.exe .
You can also create an application shortcut to it with kde, just remember to set the workpath to the directory the executable is in or you could run into problems. |
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Posted: Dec 01, 2006 - 03:59 AM
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Joined: Jan 21, 2005
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Location: NYC/NJ Area
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Posted: Dec 01, 2006 - 04:25 AM
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Joined: Oct 03, 2006
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Location: Berlin
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| Is IP blocking through ipfilter.dat supported (and working)? Seems to be a problem for some clients which are using rlibtorrent 0.11 |
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Posted: Dec 01, 2006 - 05:28 AM
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Joined: Dec 01, 2006
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| IP blocking is fruitless, use encryption (obfuscation) and use torrents with massive amounts of seeders and leechers if you think you will be caught. |
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Posted: Dec 18, 2006 - 08:31 PM
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Joined: May 20, 2005
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I've tried using other clients but in the end I always remain happy using bittornado (with the gui). I find that it is simple, small, and to the point. It always works great and never fails me, I've been using it for years now and still love it. I would definently try it out, it's already included with kanotix and you can get the gui by using apt.
On another note I just started messing around with Opera Browser again and noticed it has a torrent client built into it which seems to work pretty nice.
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