slyck.com — Allegro! Typically used to describe a quick music tempo, this word describes the latest release of the BitTorrent Mainline client. The primary focus of this Mainline release is to address the issue of ISP bandwidth throttling, and more importantly, BitTorrent traffic caching.
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guytorontoJun 23, 2006
Indeed. Expect to see ISPs corrupt the torrent caches just to dissuade people from using the technology.
guytorontoJun 23, 2006
Absolutely. And those gangstas are just using their 9mms for skeet shooting.
willyarnoldJun 23, 2006
I still think this is kinda scary. RoadRunner is my ISP. They are owned by AOL TimeWarner. Why would they cache copies of their own movies for me to download? Bittorrent and my ISP working together just doesn't sit right with me. I think there's a conflict of interest here. Bittorrent & P2P = good guys, Warner & buddies (read MPAA) = bad guys. I'm just nervous to see them working together.
jordan314Jun 23, 2006
>as your IP address is not being reported 'publicly' outside your ISP's private network.yet...
Closed AccountJun 23, 2006
Time warner cant block port forwarding, It is literally impossible. They have absolutely no control of the data after it hits your router. Your router is the one that decides where to send those packets inside your network. They may block certain ports completely (just use different ports) but they cant say "hey dont allow these to be port forwarded"
Closed AccountJun 23, 2006
I tried using Opera to download via BT and it wouldn't even connect to a single peer. Perhaps it has issues with the passkey tracker system? Anyway , uTorrent is the daddy at the moment :)
barakJun 23, 2006
muramasa, you know whats really sad about it?uTorrent under Wine works better than any of the native Linux BT clients.even uTorrent under Wine has a system tray icon (of sorts)
pornelJun 23, 2006
Opera is not supposed to be advanced BT client. It's targetted towards non-geek users who are interested in getting files, and not the process.However UPnP + DHT could help to reach this goal.
mrpackrat42Jun 24, 2006
Your IP will still be reported to the tracker, and you'll still show up on the list of peers. What the cache does is intercept peer requests for chunks of the file that it has and services them itself. If a peer outside your ISP's network requests a chunk from you, you'll still send it to them. The cache might possibly get that too, if it has the chunk, I'm not sure. The article is a little short on implementation details and I couldn't find anything about it on bittorrent.com.
splintaxJun 25, 2006
BitTorrent isn't the "core"; if that were so ?Torrent, Azureus et al would be skins or distributions of BitTorrent (a la Linux).It's the protocol, just like HTTP is the protocol for the web. Firefox and Internet Explorer use the same protocol, but they don't share any code.
ho0berAug 5, 2006
@TweeksterYes and no.There are TONS of torrents that are legit (Linux & OSS software, small game studio patches and updates, MMO updates etc) but the traffic of those using it for illegal purposes still greatly outweighs the legal ones. Although the legal uses are significant enough give the protocol a decent reputation, the illegal usage still hits the bandwidth harder.