torrentfreak.com — BitTornado developer John Hoffman, better known as Shad0w, decided to ban BitComet users from accessing his client. Shad0w says that BitComet is gaming the system and stealing precious bandwidth, which results in slower speeds for all non-Bitcomet users.
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dwatchJan 7, 2007
Yea, the ratio thing at private trackers keep most users honest in the long run, but in the short term, while the file is being share initailly by the uploader, bit comet clients will suck up most of the file, and not give back to other peers as much as its reporting to the super seed client. This makes super seed mode useless, where it used to be a great idea. I was able to upload a new file out to 110% and by the time I finished, nearly all the peers connected were seeds already. Now with the bit comet exploit, it have to seed to almost 200%, and there are only a handfull of seeds at that point.... which wastes my upload bandwidth, and slows down the distribution of the file to other peers. I recently switched to Azureus and use the stuffit plugin and ban all bit comet users, and now my seeding has really sped back up a lot. This has encouraged me to upload more, and the end result is more people sharing more files. So, yea, it DOES matter how the clients behave. Also, to you invite beggars, I've signed your email up at a few 'interesting' spam sites. Better figure out how your spam filters work quickly, lol.Stop begging for invites here, this is not the place for it.
danomacJan 7, 2007
Demagogue: Limit the number of connections BT makes to other clients, and set an upload cap. Some routers cave if you keep a couple hundred connections open.
orochuJan 8, 2007
The latest BitTornado release is dated Dec 23, 2006 and has added Azureus/uT-style protocol header encryption. Tornado is useful because it runs anywhere you have a Python interpreter and has command-line clients, instead of only on Windows GUI like uT.
vholdJan 8, 2007
"Enable encryption and don't use the default port.. Can't shape what you can't read."Well.. The presence of bittorrent traffic isn't that difficult to figure out. Lots of incoming and outgoing connections to many hosts.
yubproJan 8, 2007
i certainly wasn't aware, which also means i was often uploading 10x's more than i was ever downloading.it seems pretty petty to ban all users simply because some of them were selfish and chose to not share equally.
fxscreamerJan 8, 2007
This whole BitComet thing blows my mind honestly. I've been using it for about a year, and my share ratios are insane (in a good way), beyond anyone using other clients. I recently downloaded the latest BitComet, and noticed it supporting DHT with it enabled. Plus, it's C++ based programming and simple and refined, unlike bloated, slow, java based stuff (Azureus). I honest to god don't know why this is an issue, and I'm a demonoid user myself. Never been banned. Also, DL speeds increase with UL increases, from everything I've noticed. It is important that I'm able to clock and harness my up and down bandwidth. I've used a lot of bittorrent clients, and all of them didn't impress me. I need UP and DOWN bandwidth control, good bandwidth transfer, no resource hogging, and a simple GUI that is easy to read. BitComet FTW.
geminitojanusJan 8, 2007
"Everyone who uses Torrentflux uses Bittornado"My torrentflux server uses Transmission as its torrent client. Some work is underway into making Transmission the default client for TF, as the python clients are seriously bad performers compared to the C/C++ 'discrete' clients.
icommandoFeb 1, 2007
BitComet owns all other clients, my client doesn't get mand mwahhhhhhhh
adracamasApr 10, 2007
is OK.. if the sites keep track of usage and what not.. filter out the IP addys and what not they'll see an ip addy downloaded 500Mb, uploaded 2Kb... what do you think happens then eh?