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Originally Posted by Jim galbally
i tried using usenet lastnight and F**K me it's quick! only problem is it looks like NTL block all the "good" newsgroups, so not much worth downloading on there  |
Unless you have Topsite or dumpsite FTP access, newsgroups are the fastest method of getting your...ahem...linux distros. Alas, NTL doesn't supply all the groups (but the ones it does supply are quite good - if you like your linux distros with a touch of swedish love to them!) but you can find good, cheap suppliers of unlimited newsgroup access with *all* the newsgroups for $14.95 a month. works out at less than a tenner. Once you buy access and see what really is available on Usenet, you'll never go back to P2P again.
With Bit Torrent, even with your upload capped and on a private tracker, you rely on the uploading seeds to have a fast connection, and then there's the ratio to contend with and the fact that you are flashing your IP address for the whole world to see.
With FTP you either have to have leech access (which means you know the Siteop via affil or hardware/software donation or you can Pre 0 day stuff) or you're stuck on a ratio of, usually, 1:3 and constantly battling couriers from warez groups to get your stuff online before they do. When you only have 200 - 512k upload, this is an uphill struggle and you'll never find yourself getting access to a Topsite and could find it difficult to be accepted on most of the dumpsites too.
With Usenet, it's leech, leech, leech all the way baby - and most things get posted to Usenet less than an hour after hitting the FTP tier.
*Standard Disclaimer*
No, I don't have, never had nor do I expect ever to have access to Topsites/dumpsites.
Always remember the golden rule of any scene - past and present - a game/utility/film worth playing/using/watching is worth buying!
And you really can get Linux distros from Usenet. Really. I'm not kidding. They're on there!
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Originally Posted by JonathanLH
BitComet and uTorrent are best ones resource wise, as they are written in C++ instead of Java
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But isn't BitComet the one that's getting steadilly banned from many of the private trackers for not following the Bit Torrent protocols and allowing leeching of files when the private flag is attached to the torrent? From what I was reading a little while back on Slashdot, any IP address running BitComet is likely to be black listed from these trackers.
I used to use Azureus - if you set your upload to 10k/s you were more likely to get full whack down speed - but try keeping a ratio with that and the damn thing used to fill all my memory up. ABC was a good torrent client too - very little memory footprint.
Bring back Kazaa - all is forgiven
