Bit Torrent

I usually upload when certain websites like BoxTorrents enforce a policy to upload just as much as you download. It's a good way to stop leechers. If it's a file that was either hard to find or I enjoyed, I usually upload those too.

I heard that it's dangerous to be a seeder, and besides when I seed it slows down m other downloads. My client is always opeem. but because I'm too lazy to have to keep reopening it. I remove things when they're done.

I sometimes I seed but most of the time theres really not that many seeders and i end up removing it.

i use bitcomet as it supports ddl. but it takes quite a lot of ram as well.

Another recommendation for Azureus, plenty of options for advanced users wishing for more control over their downloads.

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is great for managing direct downloads and maximising your connections download speed.

i use utorrent...pronounced mutorrent, simple and easy and has some nifty functions. as for how long i live my client on, well it depends what i'm downloading and the seeder/leecher ratio. for private sites i tend to leave the client on for as long as possible to maintain my seed/leech ratio, for animes, i tend to use mirc way more often than torrent, and also purchase the dvds of course. my computer is on for most of the day and utorrent is almost always on.

My client of choice is Azureus, and I do my best to maintain at least a 1:1 for most files. Luckily, I had enough spare parts to build a box that does my bidding for torrent activity...keeps the gaming/3d modeling box available for what it is meant to do. For those of you that have enough parts to build a second system, that would be a good way to go. Wasting processor cycles on torrenting takes away from your fun time! ^^; Haha. Tokyo Toshokan does quite well for my anime/manga needs with rare visits elsewhere.

Take 100%, give 100% here. Unless there aren't any peers to upload to, lol... I don't keep the torrent client open 24/7...

I use Azureus, check mininova.org for your software need and tokyotosho.com for your otaku need. Now... play hellgate london with me pls~ :D

µTorrent is good if your low on disk space

Transmission is the best bittorrent client for Mac OSX. But it happens that it's not compatible with some trackers.

also a fan of transmission, i find azureus is just too cpu intensive..

it's always open, and i seed to 1:1 or higher.

utorrent for myself, I usually give at least 50% or more back basically because I still have other torrents working.

Sites for me, mininova, baka-updates, BlackCats for the most part get me around.

Emule helps me get what I can't =D

Either I'm supid or something is wrong, but I have a iMac and I have never gotten bittorent to work! Either the torrents never load, or all of them will get almost there, and then quit or corrupt! it's really frusterating!

@Trent
the corruption part may be due to hard disk failure, its usually a sign telling you that you need to replace your hard drive before it crashes on you without warning and you lose all your saved data. your ISP may also be blocking the use of bittorent and thats why they aren't loading for you.

Utorrent FTW
it's small, uses low resource, full of usefull features

utorrent all the way!

As for how long I keep mine running, it depends. I have my client turn on at startup so as soon as my PC starts up i'm downloading/uploading.

These days, I tend to keep my PC on for some time so I can stream my music from my home PC to my work one from time to time, assuming my connection doesn't screw up, like it has been doing recently...

i don't feel the lag from seeding cos usually turn it off in the day, and turn on all the torrents when I go to bed. a newly released episode should be done by the time I wake up, with more than 150% given back to the torrent community.

is all good :D

danny, where do u get ur dose of anime from if u just started using it? cuz im downloading my anime via torrents.

I leave my window open all night as well.

Your client looks cool, I'm going to check it out

Your client looks cool Danny! I'm using Azureus BitTyrant.. Usually I just leave whatever being uploaded after I downloaded opened till they failed to upload anymore..

I've tried a few clients but utorrent is not only the easiest to use, but it's very small and has so many nifty options :3
I would seed more than 100% but it seems my isp counts uploads as part of my bandwidth limit ;_; so as it is, I generally seed small files 'till 100-110% and big files around 10-20%.
And I always go to http://isohunt.com first (used to be mininova.org) before checking smaller torrent communities or p2p (emule).

your download pic reminds me of how police recently like busted some pedophile molester by de-blurring a photo. I wonder what they would see if they used it on you. I would assume those are the family videos you always like to share. And "family" pics too right ;)

BTW why would utorrent be mutorrent? Wouldn't it make more sense to pronounce it like "micro"torrent as in micrometer or "u"torrent?

I'm using Bitcomet and I let it open for weeks. :>

@nara,

Since danny is based in Japan, I would assume that he would use p2p programs like winny and share for his anime fix, or he just digitally records it off the tv.

Either way, those would be much faster than torrent, since ppl tend to get their anime from the 2 p2p programs i mentioned and then torrent it for everyone else.

I used bittorrent for quite sometime but changed to Azureus. Torrent sites have been a bit hard to find lately since some have been shutdown like Demonoid but they'll be back most likely. Still I recommend searching on tokyotosho

@don
well, its actually called µTorrent, and µ is the same as micro or mu, which is 10^-6.

ps. whats a good p2p program?

I using BitComet, usually i open for a week for a torrent after finish DL, sometime will open longer...

I love Bit Torrent. How else could you download twenty albums in a day?

A good Torrent search engine is Isohunt. Here's a link: http://www.isohunt.com/

As for what application I use, none.

I use uTorrent. The biggest problem is it slows my web surfing down dramatically, so I turn it off when I'm surfing. I leave it on though at work, but turn it off at night because I'm on a laptop and I like to turn that off at night, unless it's winter time, then I might use my laptop for a room heater.

i use this program called Azureus. I take 100% give more than 100% btw. but there is not an option in the poll. i normally leave my computer on for 4 - 14 days wotj out turning it off.

I use Azureus. It's not nearly as pretty as Transmission, but is more featureful. Azureus had nasty memory leak problems on OS X, but upgrading to Leopard fixed that for me.

I seed at bare minimum as much as I downloaded (unless there's just no one downloading from me), and always try for at least twice as much. Really, I try to seed for whatever I've downloaded for as long as the primary uploaders need the help.

I also try to continually seed something I really enjoy and want to share that is also older and lacks sufficient seeders. Balance is important: Seed to many things, and the bandwidth you provide for any particular torrent is actually worthless (not to mention it's way too much TCP traffic that can't be justified for your throughput), but seed nothing and torrents die as soon as their initial popularity is over.

My main usage for Internet is actually bittorrent. I let if open 24/7. And most sites I do use (PS2, animes) have a ratio system, so I have to keep the ratio high (around 1.4) for each torrent I download.
Using ktorrent in my Ubuntu Linux box.

I use Bit Torrent most of the time i usually just seed raw manga and animes i like

ever since a local anime distribution company here started catching people who downloaded animes illegally with bit torrent and threatening them with legal action unless a reimbursement sum of around US$2000 is paid, people here are avoiding bit-torrent for downloading animes. most either watch it online via streaming sites or go for direct download.

I'm a Mac user and I use Azureus as my BT client....
Very good, strongly recommended!

Thats a very nice looking client! ^^;; I would test it out but I'm not running any of the platforms it was made for. Personally I use utorrent (from utorrrent.com) its a great program that works like all current BitTorrent programs but it is more compact.

Bittorrent is my exclusive distribution network for fansubs it's either that or IRC and you really take a security risk mingling with the hax0rs to get your fansub fix. I've been known to do it but only with a virtual version of the latest beta OS to minimize the exploit footprint. Wow who knew downloading fansubs could be so much fun!

i've been torrenting ever since and my first torrent client was Azureus but since its a java software, it eats up a large chunk on my resources. i then moved to BitComet and then moved to my current and fave client, utorrent ^___^

I've got a collection of otaku-related torrent tracker sites and i would love to share them to you guys ^___^

Tokyo Tosho (one of the best otaku related torrent trackers) --> http://www.tokyotosho.com

Anime Suki --> http://www.animesuki.com

BoxTorrents --> http://www.boxtorrents.com

D-Addicts (J-Dorama torrent site) --> http://d-addicts.com/forum/torrents.php

Nyaatorrents --> http://www.nyaatorrents.org/

DA Torrents --> http://www.datorrents.com/

Mininova --> http://www.mininova.org/

here are some torrent tracker sites that i use if ever those sites fail or use them other than otaku-related stuff if you know what i mean ^_~

ISO Hunt --> http://www.isohunt.com

Torrentz --> http://www.torrentz.com

The Pirate Bay --> http://www.thepiratebay.org

*sings Lazy Town Pirate Song*

Do what you want, ‘cause a pirate is free,
YOU ARE A PIRATE!
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want ‘cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!

The Internet -- All the Piracy, none of the scurvy XDDD

btw, i always leave my PC online almost virtually 24/7 but of course just like a human being, i shut down my PC after it finishes a long download :3

if torrent fails me, there's always IRC ^___^

becareful of the electricity bill.torrent downloading nearly cost me a bomb when the utiliy bill showed up.

My record so far was constantly downloading for a month non stop without turning off my computer. I was a anime freak back then. My numbers of downloads could go up to 20 or more at one go. But that craze kinda died down for quite a while ago.

I personally would recommend Utorrent for a BT client as it is clean and fast to use. Have tried most of the others but some of them are either too slow or too difficult to use.

For more info, ===>http://www.utorrent.com/

I usually shut off my torrent app when I'm finnish downloading. Lags the laptop too much.

I use uTorrent, but it's Windows only. I use it because it's extremely light-weight and it has great features such ass RSS subscription (auto download!) and something called Web UI that allows you to manage your torrents from a different computer.

As for how long I keep it open, well, the unwritten rule is that you have to seed 200%.

My upstream cap is awfully low (256 kb/s) while my upstream is capped at 2 mbit. It's literally impossible to share as much as I've taken unless I'm loading awfully slow and while my torrent client is running, most of my internet activity has to shut down (I'm lucky if I can browse some sites at mediocre speed, playing online games or watching streams is not possible), so I have it up whenever I'm not doing anything that requires my connection. My ratio, depending on the speed I can download from, usually is around 0.6 or so.

Oh and I use uTorrent, it's without a doubt the best client that I personally have used so far.

I'd really love to keep the ratio 100% 100%, download stuff and then share them for at least 2 weeks or so.

But what really happens is: My HDD is filled up all the time. So I have to download stuff, burn them on DVDs or something, just so I can get new stuff.

I usually leave stuff sharing, so I just select the ones that has fewer seeds and lots of leechers.

Oh, I've been using bittorrent for a long time... since the time there were no clients (only the original bittorrent that looked like a download window).

After clients appeared, I first used Azureus, then switched to uTorrent, which I'm still using today.

Before that? DC++, eMule, eDonkey, LimeWire, Kazaa, Morpheus, Napster, IRC and before that I remember using some sort of virtual webspace where tons of anime fans would share stuff. Forgot the name right now.

If not for those, I wouldn't be here probably. Because I wouldn't have gotten into anime and japanese culture, and would have never been into Japan...

uTorrent is better than any other torrent programs I had so far, perhaps the previous one I've tried left me with a bitter taste in my mouth (BitComet).

I go direct as I often have to keep moving and can't become a seeder long enough to leech.

Since we have really bad limits on upload here in Belgium, I just can't share much. It's getting better, but it could be more. Would be most willing to share, if only I could... Because if you reach your upload limit, your whole connection is put on smallband (down & up). But it's getting better, but still expensive, in comparison to other countries...

Client of my choice: Azureus.
BT Site: btjunkie, baka-updates & tokyotosho.

Okay, I confess. I have absolutely no idea how to use a torrent. Can someone elaborate?

As far as I know, its some sort of pack of files, but whenever I try to download one, the slow speeds just make me give up after five minutes. Yes, I have no patience. ;)

100% down, 100% up and I use uTorrent - super light client and comes with many preferences

i have used many torrent programs, bittorrent, bittorrado, ABC, Azureus, Etc. but the best program in my experience is Utorrent, i highly suggest it for anyone.

I use Utorrent as well. Most of the fansub I get always upload to 1.5 ish by the time i finish something, so i almost give 150% hahaha

uTorrent for Windows clients and Transmission for Mac Users. That's the way to go ;)

Well uploading is a bit dangerous... in switzerland the only thing that makes you "not legal" is uploading. As long as you only download and don't upload they can't do you anything... pretty weird but true. Law is not really adapted here about all the P2P stuff.
hehe

That's a lot of pron you got going there Danny... :-P

I use Azureus as my client and I try to go at least 100/100 whenever I can.

I usually give back about 150% or more. This is mainly because my upload speed is almost always a bit higher than my download speed. So I usually don't have to leave it open for more than a minute after my download finnishes.

I use Utorrent

My share ratio is usually 300% or more as I believe that bittorrent is about sharing and community building.

I use utorrent, best on I've used so far.

I try to give back whenever possible, but most other orientals I know aren't quite as nice.

I use BitComet.

I don't keep my client up that long due to bandwidth constraints. If I had faster internet at home like they have in Japan then I'm not closing my client at all. heheh! Sadly though I (or we in the Philippines) don't have that kind of bandwidth luxury. I do keep it up whenever I don't use the net.

I haven't used transmission yet, but I've been using Azureus for years now on both PC and Mac.

They added a bunch of features that I don't use, but the advanced mode lets you choose what files you want to download from within the torrent. (like one video from a batch torrent)

Along with a lot of other customization, that feature really helps out a lot. Don't have to download the whole torrent, just for one file : >

I don't seed. I'm a leecher.
Do i feel guilty?
Not one bit.
My client's Utorrent. It used to be Azureus, but I can't work it anymore. It freezes up on me when I open it.

Oh no... Could that be the consequence of my leeching sin???

my client is Utorrent and generally i give back whn i forgot to remove the torrent XD

I use flash get, since it serves as a nice torrent downloader (as good as any i have seen atleast), and at the same time it is also a download accelerator for normal downloads. I never quite before i have atleast seeded as much as i have gotten.
Unless its mega downloads like naruto and bleach where its pointless.

i use DAP for dowload the best.....

I use isohunt or torrentspy to find them then bitlord to bring them down.

I used to use the Bittorrent client until I switched over to utorrent, which is absolutely amazing. As for websites I generally use isohunt and mininova for all the things I'll need.

I use bitcomet and have my settings set to stop sharing after dl/ul are 1:1 because sites like demonoid want you to have a 1:1 ratio i think. Most other files, like the ones I get off tokyotosho or mininova, I just stop after I get my file since my roommates complain I'm slowing down their gaming.

too bad I can't use torrentspy anymore. i think they stopped allowing US users.

So sad to see so much Leechers.

I'm actually not on the pool range, so i put 100%/100%.

My utorrent is actually on 1/2 rate, I get it, and "send full" for 2 peoples.

I watched so many Anime Groups that closes their torrents system just for those leechers... well, it's a basic tip for life, get what u need and give everything that u can...

I am too worried about getting a virus to use any torrent program. Plus I currently live in the US, so everything is illegal now.

You guys sould try Isohunt or Azureus

I never close my torrent client. I'm always downloading and seeding after a week or so i delete all the complete files. I personally use uTorrent i don't know if they have a version for MacOS but i don't think so.

I had dsl and used to upload about 50gigs per month without problems, then i switched to the local cable provider and after a week of uploading nonstop they limited my connection i was like WTF?? they told me i could'nt upload too much or they'll keep limiting it, so i switched back to dsl, not as fast as cable but i can upload as much as i want, as for the client i use bitcomet and isohunt search engine FTW!!

I'm also pretty new to this torrent downloading stuff. I started about......2 months ago, maybe a little more than that. I really don't know a lot either seeing as i see a lot of words i never heard. I guess i'm a leecher. What does it mean to be a seeder anyway?

As for my torrent client, i use Lime Wire. Basic Lime Wire too. It's great, compared to the troubleshooting i would get with BitComet which never worked for me.

I do recommend you have internet security if you use Lime Wire for downloading torrents. I've gotten attempts of intrusion a few times.

Lastly, i turn off my computer when i'm not using it.....which is overnight and during my hours at work and not home.

I'm using uTorrent, after using BitLord, BitCommet and Azureus, I can say that I prefer that client the most. When I started to use torrents (back in 2005) I always "ran away" after I downloaded something, but now I insist to get an upload/download ratio of 1.5 for all my downloads. Although I never let my client run the whole night, I just let the torrents stay in there for months and continue uploading them from time to time. ^^ As for torrent sites, I used (used, because they took the site down last week ;_;)Demonoid.com most of the times.

on MAC I use Azureus 2.5, Java based but million time more efficient that other MAC p2p solution, and on PC i Use uTorrent (I used Azureus until they moved to 3.0 Vuze and their stupid media center)

The good news for MAC user is that uTORRENT will come to us soon !

I use Utorrent now after using Azureus for so long, it eats less resources ^^; so I can play mmorpgs while downloading on my low-end computer lol.. and yeah I usually try to get my ratio to 1:1 before i take off a torrent i just downloaded (usually means leaving the computer on 24/7 lol).

I really try for a 1:1 ratio but give it at least 1:0.5.

I use uTorrent and always seed to at least 1:1. If there isn't many seeds I will go to 10:1. I can't really go much further though, because then my ISP starts hassling me about using too much bandwidth.

Canada really needs better ISPs. Our best consumer ISP maxes out at 3 Mbps on their most expensive connection, which is about $80 per month. Their is 3 major ISPs that have a sort of alliance monopoly, they all agree to offer the exact same slow speeds to keep maintenance costs down, and whenever another company comes along trying to supply faster internet they get bought up immediately. Unfortunately there is a loophole in the anti-monopoly laws that more than one company working together can't be considered a monopoly. >.>

Transmission is still my app of choice in OSX, despite the recent problems. I'm installing build 3811 0f 0.93 as I write this. You are running it in Leopard, Danny?

uTorrent is my favorite in Windows. Really really really looking forward to it coming to OSX. Azureus is a resource hog and I can't stand version 3.0.

I try very hard to be 1:1, but sometimes fall a little short.

Wish I had time to write more...

uTorrent is one of the best apps, i use it all the time and it works perfectly and it's hassle free ^^

i use utorrent and i consider myself a seeder i rarely have a ratio below 2 and all i know is that my total ratio is 3.745

I use Bitlord...but unfortunately I HAVETO close the program after I have finished my download. Reason being....I stay in South Africa and here we have EXPENSIVE internet usage.
and we are capped to 5 gig a month....and it costs a fortune to buy a new cap every month.

check out www.hellkom.co.za to see what I mean

I recommend utorrent as well since it's simple and takes lesser space than the other ones I've used...I usually give back twice what I downloaded or at least 100% of it...least I could do for the generosity of others...

I can't upload much because I have a 40kbps cap on upload/downloads >_>

i'm using bitcomet 0.58 but after seeing so many of you guys recommending µTorrent, i have decided to give it a try. ('~')

I'm using either utorrent or bittyrrant. Bittyrrant is a mod for azureus which, supposedly, makes it go fastaah!

Azureus on multiple PC's got get more peers. My share rate is 1.05 with over 200GB on one PC and a 1.9 on the other with about 70GB

I usually never seed any more than I have to to finish downloading the torrent (yeah, bad me XP). It's probably a habit from trying to keep uploads to a minimum so that our ISPs won't suspend us.

Recommendations for clients:
uTorrent: The most lightweight client I've ever used (in existence maybe). Very convenient, handy, featured, and easy to use.
I used to use ABC OKC, but I think uTorrent is better.

Recommendations for sites:
http://tokyotosho.com
http://www.animesuki.com
http://www.isohunt.com

Only will i seed if i leave my pc on at night downloading other torrents.

i just leave my computer and torrent for a couple of days depends how long be4 i swith of my com so proabably a few days my ratio is aorund 3

I use utorrent.
Anyways, I try to seed as much as possible, but since it lags everything that uses the internet, I usually just seed when not using the comp.

i'm a bitcomet fan and have been using bitcomet 0.70 since it's released.. and it had became the unofficial stable release as quoted from the mod from bitcomet forum.. the newer ver of bitcomet seems buggy in all way..

like what the other choose utorrent is the alternative for me..

but at least for now, i will still stick to bitcomet..

BitComet user.
I'm a leecher.

XTorrent used here. It's got a wonderful polish to it and the developer has earned my trust (also develops AcquisitionX, InquisitorX, and NewsFire).

I'm a heavy seeder. XTorrent runs if the machine is turned on, which is generally all the time. My default upload settings are to seed to a 5:1 ratio, except for those few Linux distros I help seed - those are unlimited:1.

I've always used Bitcomet for my torrents. It's lightweight and downloads very fast.

In the case of leeching and share ratio, I usually leave Bitcomet running when I'm asleep and configure it to auto stop and shut down the computer when it reaches 1:1. I give only what I receive LOL.

I download too many stuff and just can't afford to re-seed them all the same way. But if I love the series or if it's an OVA with very few seeders then I do seed them even if it reaches 200-300 %.

I always give twice what I receive, I guess I get good bittorrent karma, lol. And I use Azureus for my torrenting, the tree frog logo seals the deal.

I usually share whilst I am downloading something and normally close the program whenever I realise my download has completed. If I don't notice the internet speed going any slower then I leave it open. The best one I have ever used is uTorrent, its fast and easy!