Is P2P going pear shaped?

[ato...@hotmail.com]

Limewire seems to be nothing but viruses and trojans.
Downloaded a full working program on BT, went into seeding mode,
red icon with up arrow, it says tracker off-line.
3 downloads, 2 say tracker offline, different trackers, and one
refused connection.
Nothing is moving
Is this the future and end of BT?

[pk...@forsythe.com]

I have used a number of different bittorrent programs with great success. There are some variables that will affect how they perform not the least of which is the speed of your internet connection.

The most common problem I had was the request timing out before the tracker would respond. I fixed that by bumping the timeout to 120 secs. No more problem.

I am also confused... if you were using Bittorent for the first time, you would have nothing to seed. IN that case you should have been in Leeching mode.

There is an excellent Bittorrent FAQ on the web, and my favorite Bittorrent client is called Burst!. Google the FAQ and see if you gat more help there.

[ato...@hotmail.com]

> The most common problem I had was the request timing out before the
> tracker would respond. I fixed that by bumping the timeout to 120 secs. No
> more problem.
>
> I am also confused... if you were using Bittorent for the first time, you
> would have nothing to seed. IN that case you should have been in Leeching
> mode.

Thanks I'll up the timing.

BT used to work fine but recently most of the trackers seem to have
died or are actively refusing connection.

So I've leeched and have gone to seeding mode but if the trackers offline, or dead,
nothing moves, either leeching or seeding.
Plenty of DHT nodes, most of the time when it worked, a green icon.

[henry hunter]

<ato...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have been using P2p since it started. For a long time Kazaa was king and
the rest always gave poor results. BT was good for a while but The successor
to Edonkey Emule seems to be the best all rounder these days.

[Haydn Smith]

No, P2P is going great. I use Azureus and BT support it's use in their
latest Home Hubs, so port forwarding, etc is automtically set up, wicked!
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