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Guide to using the newsgroupsYou're in for a very long read. It's assumed that you have a working knowledge of computers in general, and
WinRAR and IRC specifically.
Contents- What is Usenet, and how does it work?
- News servers
- Choosing a news server
- Newsreaders
- Downloading from the newsgroups
- Parity files
- Getting complete files
- Posting to the newsgroups
- NZB files
- How to make NZB files
- Tips
- Outro
What is Usenet, and how does it work?Usenet is a network of news servers that pre-dates the Internet. Users read and post public email-like messages called articles to a number of groups that resemble disjointed forums. News servers store their information, and forward them to one another. In this manner, a message posted by one person could make its way to every news server on earth.
While newsgroups were not created with the intention of distributing binary files, people have discovered that they are quite effective to do this. A file uploaded will spread and can be downloaded by an unlimited number of users at no cost to the uploader, and every downloader is also drawing on the bandwidth of their own news server. This means that opposed to P2P networks like BitTorrent where uploading is required, users control their own download speed. This is just another benefit of newsgroups: it is not expected that users share. In fact, if everyone were to share, the servers would become flooded, so it's encouraged that users just leech.
The newsgroups have been operating in this same manner for the past 25 years, but there have been improvements made that make downloading now easier than it was to begin with.
Unfortunately, downloading from Usenet takes a great deal more effort than downloading from Kazaa. A typical download will take many more steps because it'll be split in the following manner:
Here's a simpler diagram:
The reason why this is necessary is because most news servers will not accept messages longer than 10,000 lines, many a lot less. A 700MB movie would take around 15 million lines when encoded, which is far too much for any news server to handle. The reason for the first split into RAR files is to compress the data, and because of the nature of newsgroups: some messages don't make it. So if movie.part08.rar is missing or corrupted, it's easier to find the one piece than to download the whole thing over again.
Is it worth it? You'd better believe it! If you've never unleashed the power of newsgroups before, get ready to kick it up a notch!
News serversModern news servers are actually network farms with dozens of machines. Take a look at this simplified network design:
Storing messages takes up a lot of space, and newsgroups will occasionally purge old messages. This takes us to a term you should understand: retention.
Let's take an example newsgroup and make some values up. alt.binaries.multimedia has 10 video clips a day posted, and each clip averages 50MB. The total disk space required is now 500MB/day. Retention is how long the news server keeps messages before deleting them, so a retention of one day would require a storage capacity of 500MB, and a week would need 3.5GB.
This explains why different newsgroups have different retention times: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classical receives a few hundred messages a day and has a long retention, but alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd receives a few thousand messages a day and has shorter retention.
Completion is another term you should know: it measures how many messages of those posted a newsgroup actually has. The higher the completion rate, the more messages get through, meaning you have to spend less time downloading and repairing files. Seasoned Usenet veterans know how critical completion is: it makes all the difference between spending hours hunting for parts and grabbing a download in five minutes.
Choosing a news serverMost ISPs maintain a news server for their customers to access. Some are very good, carrying most newsgroups and having long retention and high completion rates. Most aren't, censoring most binary or foreign newsgroups, capping speeds and data transfers, and having short retention and poor completion. The only way to know which one you have is to try it out!
To find out if your ISP has a news server, call support or go to their site and search for "newsgroups" or "nntp." Bargain ISPs usually do not maintain servers.
You can also use a subscription server - one that you have to pay for seperately. You could want a subscription server because your ISP offers subpar servers, or because you need a cheap server with high completion to complete downloads from your ISP's server. With most subscription servers, you get what you pay for. When you sign up for one, you will get a username and password that you must enter into your newsreader - but more on that later.
We recommend NewsHosting as a subscription server - most of us have accounts there, and the completion and retention are excellent. Plus, if you sign up through this link, you will help out KLT Forums at no cost to you.
Purchase a NewsHosting.com account here.NewsreadersA newsreader is a program that can connect to news servers and download files from them. In this guide, we'll be using
NewsLeecher, which is shareware (PM me for the full version).
GrabIt is an excellent freeware newsreader.
Once you've installed and started up NewsLeecher, you will be at a screen like this.
First off, click "Options," which is the rightmost menu at the top. Make sure your options look like this (the sections which aren't posted aren't that important):
Be sure to configure your download folder to something of your choosing.
Base your entries for headers and download IDs on how long your news server's retention is. NewsHosting offers 40 days of retention, so I have both set to 40.
Now, click on "add new server" and enter the details for your news server. You can have more than one server, but I'll only use one.
Downloading from the newsgroupsThere are three ways to download from the newsgroups:
The classic method is to browse through the newsgroups and pick whatever you want. The advantage is that you will see everything posted, but the downside is that large groups like alt.binaries.dvdr can take long amounts of time to update or display.
NZB files are another way to download - these are sort of like torrent files in the sense that all you have to do is open one up and start downloading.
NewsLeecher's SuperSearch feature is also an option - it's fast if you're looking for something specific, and there's no need to download headers.
If you're just going to use NZB files or SuperSearch, you're all done! Skip down to the NZB or SuperSearch section.
Now, go to "all groups" -> "fetch group list." Be sure to organize the groups by popularity, descending. You should now see a list of groups.
Highlight some groups which seem interesting to you, and click the "subscribe" button. Here, I've chosen only two newsgroups, alt.binaries.dvd9 and alt.binaries.mma.
Go to the "active group" tab and select all the groups, then right-click and select "update" -> "start update." Depending on how many groups you chose, this can be very time-consuming - with just two groups and a 30Mb/s connection, it took me around five minutes.
This full update must only be done once - from now on, choose to do an incremental update, which will take considerably less time.
Filter out filenames and non-binary posts, and order the posts by either date or subject. This makes it easy to look for a certain post, or find new posts.
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I found a UFC Ultimate Knockouts special that I would like to download, so I'm going to highlight all the messages, right-click on them, and choose "leech."
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When downloading, you should always download all the .rar files, .par2 files, .sfv file(s), and the .nfo file if there is one. I'll teach you what to do with these later.
Here's a screenshot of me downloading:
Downloading using an NZB is as simple as it gets - just open one up and it'll be automatically added to your download queue.
SuperSearch is another way to download files - just enter your search terms and download like before.
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Parity filesParity files come with an extension of .par or .par2 and are God's gift to the newsgroups. They're also the solution to the perennial problem of missing files. For example, if you download a movie with 50 RAR files and find that one is missing, you can use one PAR file to repair it using
QuickPAR. You can reconstruct any missing part with any PAR file, and multiple parts with multiple PAR files.
The only option you should change in QuickPAR is setting the default priority to idle.
The catch is that there's a limit to the number of files you can reconstruct, and the limiting factor is the number of PAR files included in the release. So if an archive has only five PAR files, you'll be able to reconstruct only five parts.
Increasingly, PAR2 files are being used instead of PAR files. The main difference is that you can use a PAR2 file to reconstruct incomplete or damaged files, meaning that you can repair many files with one PAR2 file.
Damaged files are highlighted in red in NewsLeecher, so you can tell right away that they are incomplete.
The key to using PAR2 files is to see how many blocks they can repair, as shown by the highlighted portion on the right. PAR2 sets usually progress from one block to however many are required by one archive. In this example, you can tell that each RAR part contains 40 blocks. There are also enough PAR2 files to repair 357 blocks, which is eight full parts plus 37 more blocks. PAR2 files are efficient because if QuickPAR says I need 60 blocks to repair a file, I can download one 40-block PAR2, a 19-block PAR2, and the small one-block PAR2.
When done, open the .sfv file that came with the release to check the integrity of all the files.
The .nfo file is information about the release and can be opened with
DAMN NFO Viewer.
Getting complete filesIf you've downloaded a file and still cannot repair all the damaged blocks with PAR2 files, there is another way to get complete files.
Connect to <a href="irc://irc.efnet.net/incomplete">EFNet's #incomplete channel</a>. The basic command for requesting a file is this:
CODE
!request filename.rar / Description of release
Now, let's plug in a real file - say you're missing RAR number 60 from Call of Duty 2.
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!request dev-cod2.r60 / Call.of.Duty.2-DEViANCE
After you type that in, the channel will acknowledge your request:
CODE
(@Bertie) Request (58) added by [Yourname] + [dev-cod2.r60 / call.of.duty.2-deviance]
The number in parentheses after "Request" is your request number, remember it.
You will now see PMs from bots telling you that you're in queue for them to DCC send the file. If you want to cancel a request, type this in:
CODE
!close request number
So if you no longer want the 60th part of Call of Duty 2, you'd send this:
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!close 58
#incomplete is also located on other networks, go
here for a complete list.
As a last resort, post to the newsgroup in this format:
CODE
REQ: Name of poster please repost samplegame.r06
Posting to the newsgroupsI'll be using a 36.5MB video clip to demonstrate how to post files to the newsgroups.
First off, you have to prepare the archive. Most files posted on Usenet are compressed using RAR, unless the file is very small. I'm going to archive this clip using 15MB spans.
Prepare the PAR2 set by opening up QuickPAR and clicking the "add files" button. Locate your files and add them all.
Slide the "redundancy" bar until the recovery data size is larger than the size of one complete part. 15MB RARs are easy because they are 40 blocks. If I was posting something larger, I'd consider going as high as 200 blocks. Then, hit the "create" button.
This is what your directory should look like now. Notice that all the PAR2 files add up to 40 blocks, which is one full part. As a test, I deleted crossfire.part1.rar, opened the main PAR2 file, and successfully recreated the deleted part.
Now, you just have to create the NFO file, and
Cool Beans NFO Creator is perfect for this. Include any information you think will be necessary, and save the .nfo.
The last step is uploading the files to Usenet, and we'll use a program called
PowerPost2000A&A for that. Go to "view" -> "program settings" and enter all the info for your news server. Do not enter your real info for your email address.
Add all the files to queue, select all your files, then edit your title. The only thing you need to replace is the "????" with the title of your post.
On the "newsgroups" tab, choose the newsgroup you want to post to. Since this is a test, I'll post to alt.binaries.test. Go to "file" -> "start posting" and sit back.
After PowerPost completes, you'll have a list that looks like this:
And here's a screenshot from a newsreader:
NZB filesUsenet's always been an incredible source of information, but as you saw with downloading the post list, getting that information can be time-consuming. While downloading a single header takes no time, downloading several million is a time-consuming affair. This becomes even more frustrating when the file you're looking for doesn't exist in the newsgroup you just spend 15 minutes updating.
Well, NZB files are here to the rescue.
NZBs are sort of like torrents - they are small files that contain information associated with the files you are looking for. In the case of newsgroups, they only contain the headers of the files you're looking for.
Here's a list of popular sites that index NZBs:
With NewsLeecher, all you have to do is open up an NZB file and your download will automatically start.
How to make NZB filesWhen browsing a group in NewsLeecher, all you have to do is highlight the files you want to associate with an NZB, right-click, and select "export to NZB."
An alternative method is to open up PowerPost2000A&A and click the "add files" button.
Choose the files that you want to make an NZB of, then go to the "checksums" tab. Check off "generate NZB file" and click OK.
When you finally post your files, be sure to post the NZB last, otherwise people might start using it before your post is complete.
Tips- File sets that begin with .001 can be RAR files or HJSplit files.
- yEnc and ZoneAlarm don't behave together well.
OutroI suck at outros. Have fun downloading from the newsgroups!
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Peer GuardianWhat is Peer Guardian?Peer Guardian is another program that blocks rogue connections to and from your computer. It is very easy to install and use and blocks connections at the kernel-level.
How it works?Peer guardian compares the IP address obtained from the header of a packet to a list of IP addresses. If the IP address was found in the list, then it will be blocked.
Is Peer Guadian a complete firewall?No, peerguardian is not a complete firewall and it is considered as complimentary program for firewalls, not an alternative. We recommend you install and use a firewall along with Peer Guardian.
How much does it cost?Nothing, it is completely free of charge.
Does it have spyware?Absolutely not!
Which protocols does Protowall block?Peerguardian blocks only TCP connections.
Where to download?For more information and download, visit :
phoenixlabs.org/Installation instructions:- Download Peerguadian setup
- Open the setup
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
- open Peer Guardian
nota bene: sometimes peerguadian is included in a "zip" file and does not need installation, but is run from it location (folder).
Setup and Usage instructions:- Obtain one or more IP blacklists from bluetack or Methlabs. Here are the links:
phoenixlabs listsBluetack's ListsThe Block List manager or use the default list with Peer Guardian.
Usage Instructions- double-click on Peer Guardian's icon in the tray.
- Goto "tools">blocklist>file>open guarding.php file.
- Navigate and select the blocklist of choice.
- Goto "tools" and "remove duplicates" if there are any.
- Close and goto file>use this list in Peer Guardian
Other Options:If you are using the default list, you might want to update it frequently for new additions, to do so follow these instructions:
- Goto "help"
- Check for blocklist updates.
Why do I need this?If you do alot fo P2Ping and you download songs and other files of Peer to Peer Networks and want to avoid being caught by RIAA, Government or any other organization(s) or Agency(ies), you may consider Peer Guadian as an option. It is a must for P2P users and even normal web users who do not want to be tracked or do not want Ads and other things to be displayed in the webpages, depeding on the lists you choose to block. Most of those lists are compiled by Bluetack members and are available/updated frequently and free of charge. There are lists also compiled by Methlabs memebers that you can use.
Advantages: - Fast at blocking.
- Doesn't need installing a driver/service.
- Easy to use and configure.
Disadvantages:- Uses more CPU and memory than Protowall.
- Only blocks the TCP protocol.
nota bene: these two issues are being worked on and
hopefully they
will be fixed in the next PG release, which is V 2.0;
Resources and References:
http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/http://www.bluetack.co.uk/http://xs.tech.nuhttp://forums.phoenixlabs.org/http://peerguardian.net----------------------------------------------------
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26th November 2004 - 08:34 AM
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P2P SECURITYProtowallWhat is protowall?Protowall is a very simple program that runs in the background and
takes very little
CPU usage and memory, while having the ability to block thousands of
IP addresses. Protowall is "driver-based", that means it catches
packets and blocks them faster than any other firewall.
Though protowall is not a full firewall and protects only against the list of IP addresses obtained from blue tack and other sources or added manually by you.
How it works?Since protowall is "driver-based", the blocked traffic is done by the driver,
but the program works as an instructor to the driver and tells it how to operate. Protowall compares the header of a
packet, which contains the IP address to a list of "bad" ip addresses, such as RIAA and MPAA. If the IP address was found in the list of IP addresses, then the inbound
and outbound traffic from and to that IP address will be blocked.
Is Protowall a complete firewall?No, it is not! Protowall only blocks IP's (internet addresses) you instruct it to block, by giving it a list, or by entering them manually. It is not a firewall, or a replacement for one. It runs alongside a firewall without any problems, however, and we recommend you always have a firewall installed.
How much does it cost?Nothing, it is completely free of charge
Does it have spyware/adware?Absolutely not!
Which protocols does Protowall block?Protowall blocks all NDIS protocols. These include: IP/ICMP/TCP/UDP/HOPOPTS/IGMP/GGP/IPV4/ST/EGP/PIGP/RCCMON/NVPII/PUP/ARGUS/
EMCON/CHAOS/MUX/MEAS/HMP/PRM/IDP/TRUNK1/TRUNK2/LEAF1/LEAF2/RDP/IRTP/TP/
BLT/NSP/INP/SEP/3PC/IDPR/XTP/DDP/CMTP/TPXX/IL/IPV6/SDRP/ROUTING/FRAGMENT/
IDRP/RSVP/GRE/MHRP/BHA/ESP/AH/INLSP/SWIPE/NHRP/MOBILE/TLSP/SKIP/ICMPV6/NONE
/DSTOPTS/AHIP/CFTP/HELLO/SATEXPAK/KRYPTOLAN/RVD/IPPC/ADFS/SATMON/VISA/IPCV/
CPNX/CPHB/WSN/PVP/BRSATMON/ND/WBMON/WBEXPAK/EON/VMTP/SVMTP/VINES/TTP/
IGP/DGP/TCF/IGRP/OSPFIGP/SRPC/LARP/MTP/AX25/IPEIP/MICP/SCCSP/ETHERIP/ENCAP/
APES/GMTP/IPCOMP/PIM/PGM/
Nota bene: basicly, protowall can be effective with any P2P program or browser (e.g. Internet Explorer).
Where to download?For more information and download, visit :
Bluetack DownloadsCurrently, there is a stable version and a BETA (unstable) version and is buggy, so it is recommended to use the
Stable version and not the BETA, unless you want to help the developers test the "bugs" in the new version.
Installation instructions:- Download Protowall setup for windows.
- Open the setup by double-clicking on it.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
- open Protowall
Screen Instructions:
If u get the "protowall.sys" error, then follow these instructions:
- Navigate to Start >Settings >Control Panel >Network connections and choose your connection.
- Under the "general" tab, click on "properties".
- Under the "General" tab in proprties click "install".
- Choose "service".
- Select "Have disk ..."
- Navigate to protowall's .inf file, usually found in :
C:\Program Files\Dudez\ProtoWall\xpdriver
assuming that your local drive is C and you didn't change the default installation path.
For more information and screenshots go to:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/pwhelp/Setup and Usage instructions:- Obtain one or more IP blacklists from bluetack manually or use the Block List Manager or blocklists from methlabs.
Bluetack ListsMethlabs ListsBlockList Manager- Right-click on protowall's icon in the tray and choose "show"
- Left-click on the "W" on the top-left and select "File">"Load IP table".
- Navigate and choose the List you obtained from bluetack or another place.
- You can choose the default list and update it if u choose to do so during the installation.
- To update the default list, go to "about">protowall on the web>"check for IPDB updates...".
Other Options:- Navigate to "file">"prefrences".
Under "logging",
Choose whether you want protowall to log the blocked IP address to video and/or disk. It is recommended to log the blocked IPs to disk, just incase you need it later.
Move the slider with colours to adjust the amount of diskspace that will be used to store the IPs/packets dropped before the log is "reset" or deleted. You don't have to worry about this option if you didn't check to log packets to disk.
Under "General",
It is recommended check the first three items.
The second two are optional and the third one you can choose to be notified if a packet is blocked. Somtimes it becomes really annonying and you might want to disable this option by chooing "don't notify me", otherwise keep it so you know when a packet is blocked.
Why do I need this?If you do alot fo P2Ping and you download songs and other files through Peer to Peer Networks and want to avoid being caught by RIAA, Government or any other organization(s) or Agency(ies), you may consider Prowall as an option. It is a must for P2P users and even normal web users who do not want to be tracked or do not want Ads and other things to be displayed in the webpages, depeding on the lists you choose to block. Most of those lists are compiled by Bluetack members and are available/updated frequently and free of charge. There are lists also compiled by Methlabs memebers that you can use.
Advantages: - Very fast at blocking.
- Very efficient.
- Supports alot of protocols (TCP, UDP etc.
- Uses very little memory and CPU.
- Easy to use and configure.
Disadvantages:- Some skills are needed to install the driver. If You don't succeed the first time, try it the second time and third untill it works, it is worth it
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Resources and References:
PW HELPPW downloadPW pagePW forumMethlabs BlocklistsBlock List Manager-----------------
Any suggestions? PM
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Could anyone give me the contact.dat file for eDonkey2000 Lite please?
...Normally I'd of used overnet.org but they're link is dead...
Cheers.
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22nd August 2010 - 06:38 PM
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Hello Everyone
My Edonkey is not working , gets a msg Checking firewall ,
10300 ports r not working accordingto
http://www.canyouseeme.org/Plz Help
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10th December 2009 - 10:17 PM
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Was wondering if any one could help me, with a testing firewall message in edonkeylite.
I’m running version 1.4.3.2.1, downloaded from
http://www.kltforums.net/?showtopic=3847Windows XP home edition, service pack 3
CA Security Centre 2009 Virus, spyware and firewall – settings checked and edonkey allowed access through firewall
XP firewall switched off
TCP settings still set high
Everything was working fine until 2 days ago when the testing firewall message appeared, around the same time that eDonkeyServer No2 IP 212.36.206 went to 0 files.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
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2nd December 2009 - 11:33 PM
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uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling BitTorrent Inc. is about to launch a completely improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that will benefit both users and ISPs. uTorrent 2.0, which is currently being tested by thousands of people, will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle or stop BitTorrent traffic, and will optimize the download experience for its users.
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing down other applications and traffic.
In early 2007, when network neutrality was still a non-issue for most people, BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen told us that ISPs should find a way to cope with BitTorrent.
“ISPs have to invest in making their networks better and faster rather than stifling applications which consumers use and love,” he said, while encouraging users to switch to non throttling ISPs if possible, or complain to their ISP’s customer services.
A lot of things have changed in the years that followed. Comcast started to prevent its users from seeding content on BitTorrent, and many other ISPs took similar actions to throttle BitTorrent traffic. As a direct result, network neutrality was placed on the political agenda in many countries. It also inspired BitTorrent Inc. to look for solutions that would eliminate the need for throttling entirely, solving the problem at its root.
This is where uTP comes in. uTP is a new and improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol which is designed to be network friendly. The current implementation often causes interference with other applications, which is the main reason why ISPs try to slow it down, or even stop it altogether. uTP aims to solve this problem.
With uTP, uTorrent (and the Mainline client) will become network aware by throttling itself if congestion in the network is detected. This will have a huge impact on ISP networks according to Simon Morris, BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management. “If uTP is successful it should result in a multi-billion dollar windfall in terms of savings for ISPs,” Morris told TorrentFreak
This means that the new uTorrent will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic in their networks. Of course, uTorrent users will also be affected by the new protocol. When needed, uTorrent will decrease the upload or download speed to avoid congestion.
According to Morris it’s mainly the upload speed that will be affected. “The throttling that matters most is actually not so much the download but rather the upload – as bandwidth is normally much lower UP than DOWN, the up-link will almost always get congested before the down-link does,” he explained.
“uTP measures the time a packet takes to get sent from peer A to peer B, so in theory uTP will detect congestion anywhere on that path, although in practice the congestion most often happens somewhere on the first-mile uplink connection.”
So does this mean that the new uTorrent will result in slower download times? Not necessarily. Since there is less congestion, uTorrent users will experience no slowdowns in web-browsing, and ideally less congestion and a more efficient use of the network may result in faster download speeds. uTP is currently being tested in uTorrent v2.0 beta and thus far none of the testers have reported any significant problems.
“There are already a couple of hundred thousand people using our v2.0 beta client, and things seem to be progressing very nicely. Our v2.0 client will initiate outgoing uTP connections by default whenever it can. Previous versions of our clients will accept incoming uTP connections – they just won’t initiate them,” Morris said.
“We’re excited that this creates a better experience for millions of consumers, and it also potentially has a massive impact on ISPs – greatly reducing (even eliminating) any justification to manage or shape BitTorrent traffic and allowing ISP networks to handle more BitTorrent traffic, without resulting congestion forcing capital network upgrades ahead of schedule or the ‘need’ to invest in DPI or other traffic shaping gear.”
It is hard to tell if uTP really is BitTorrent’s savior, but if it lives up to the expectations it will be beneficial to both users and ISPs. The specs for uTP will eventually be open so other clients will have the opportunity to implement it too. However, since uTorrent and the Mainline client together are used by two thirds of all BitTorrent users, the effects should be immediately noticeable to both those users and ISPs.
So, basically, instead of your ISP doing it for you just go ahead and throttle yourself?
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7th November 2009 - 08:25 PM
Last post by: MUSCLEMAN |
Hey all I am going to do the real no no of forums. I am going to ask you to help me with selecting a good p2p downloading program, and I am going to ask for help in describing how to set it up.
I know very little about it so please be patient and speak in newbie nontechinical terms.
I am not interested in doing a lot of research about this stuff, just want to know how to get mine to work. Please give me specific instructions on how to get the downloads to work.
I have used utorrent, but never really got it to work over 70-80kbs.
I use a linksys router and have determined that there is not a problem with the connection speeds.
I want to use the program on my laptop that is connected wirelessly.
Thank you in advance for all your help
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28th July 2009 - 09:42 PM
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eDonkey reloaded Now More Efficient Than Ever
The eDonkey network has never been so efficient !
In fact, since some days, it's several tens of new fully functional edonkey servers that have been put online after a report that has been passed with skepticism,
Anti-Piracy Group Claims Mass Mininova Torrent Deletion. QUOTE
An Italian anti-piracy group is claiming a “major offensive” against internet links to infringing music. Created by IFPI, the Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) says that 20K torrents were removed from Mininova and another 10K links on other sites, along with 12 eD2K and Direct Connect servers.
The Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) was created in 1996 when IFPI and FIMI (the Italian music industry federation) teamed up to spread its anti-piracy message more effectively in Italy.
Now FPM is claiming that a “major offensive” is underway against what it describes as “new forms of illegal file-sharing.” The group is claiming that it has successfully removed from the Internet more than 30,000 links to unauthorized music, which together generated 10 million illicit downloads.
Singling out Mininova as the single biggest host of links on its hitlist, FPM claims to have successfully ordered the torrent site to remove more than 20,000 torrents. Another 10,000 items were removed from online storage sites including Rapidshare and MegaUpload. FPM says that it will now work to have further infringing links removed on a daily basis.
In further action against file-sharing services, FPM claims to have shuttered a further 12 eD2K and Direct Connect servers although no further details have been made available.
While finding that the 12 eD2K servers that were supposedly removed maybe didn't exist in the first place in Italy. Nevertheless, tens of new servers have been added to the edonkey2000 network.
This report however did nothing but make the networks grow stronger as for the torrents that were removed were quickly re-upped and Mininova themselves say they know nothing about this mass torrent deletion. There have been some torrents disappearing though however that are not mainstream and could be related to this article around the time since they were pulled then, but then quickly re-upped. New servers were added to ED2K and the information about the closed DC hubs could not be verified.
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27th July 2009 - 12:16 AM
Last post by: user0000 |
Havocland Havocland was opened just over a month ago and has been constantly evolving. Myself and the staff welcome any feedback and ideas on making the site and tracker better. A private tracker is something i have wanted to do for the past 5 years and after a lot of research i finally decided to do it.
A few things you will see at Havocland-
Friendly Staff and members
Always will be some free leech (Search for torrents by Diam0nd)
Monthly hardware draws (Current draw on Nov.30th is for a 500 GB SATA 2 Hard Drive)
Requests are always filled
Easy to keep a good ratio (We have went out of our way to implement many different ways to improve your ratio- casino, lottery, shop system in the forum and more to come).
Absolutely no ads
Things being worked on-
IRC bonus on upload based on time spent in Havocland channel
Theme weeks (Gain additional upload bonus on torrents that follow the weeks current theme)
Tournaments ( Game tournaments)
Shoutcast station.
If you want to join a great and growing community check us out.
Havoc
I used up my one spam post allowance
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17th November 2008 - 10:39 PM
Last post by: MUSCLEMAN |
Which server do you recommend using?
Thanks.
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Leecher |
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22nd October 2008 - 12:54 PM
Last post by: MUSCLEMAN |
I'm new to torrent downloading and am having an awful time getting uTorrent to work. I have followed instruction after instruction from netmoviedownloaders.com and now have a dozen different programs that I didn't have before I started. Is it necessary to have both uTorrent and Ares Ultra? I can download a TV show with Ares Ultra to my desktop and watch it by right clicking the icon and clicking Play in Windows Media Player. While I'm downloading though-the title line of Ares Ultra says <connecting> it never says online. I have cleared both engines with my firewall. (I have WindowsXP) I don't have a router but I set up 2 different static IP addresses but I still can't get the port open on uTorrent. My ISP is BellSouth. What I really want is just uTorrent for everything-TV and movies but I can't seem to make this happen. I'm frazzled!
Any suggestions?
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23rd September 2008 - 08:58 AM
Last post by: firefox |
I have used Utorrent before fine on this computer with my old Comcast cable connection.
I am visiting my uncle, and we established AT&T internet connection.
Utorrent isn't downloading.
I am connected to the internet with a Motorola 2210-02-1006 modem.
I am using Windows XP.
I successfully setup a static IP address on my computer, and proceeded with all port forwarding instructions for this partilcular modem. Afterwards, I ran a port forward test, and it told me that the port does not appear to be open.
My Utorrent isn't working. I attempted to download OpenOffice which is typically used to test uTorrent. It isn't working. Nothing is downloading. Please help me get this thing running.
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21st August 2008 - 06:01 AM
Last post by: digital mortal |
I had two completed downloads in my µtorrent folder.I decided to relocate these music files,so after stopping the respective torrents,I moved the files to new locations on an another hard disk.Then I intimated this change to µtorrent.Imagine my surprise,when it reported these downlods as incomplete!
and there was still some way to go for completion! A cursory check of the files revealed nothing amiss.I mean all the files played without any obvious problems,so what kind of data corruption is this??? I have done this many times before without any problems
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gandiya |
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28th July 2008 - 03:31 PM
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