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Drastically improve your Bit Torrent downloads. I could not figure out why my Torrent downloads were taking forever until I stumbled across this BLOG entry.

I actually thought this was pretty good because most port forwarding guides don’t include images. It can be vague if you’re not familiar with the process.. Anyone who uses BT should know this. Port forwarding guides for BT downloads have been done to death.

You shouldn’t be using BT if you haven’t read how to use it IMO. It took me all of 3 min. with emule when I bought my first router to realize that something was wrong and within 10 min. I not only had my answer (ports) but had configured it. I’m NO tech genius, just willing to google for answers.

Another thing that can speed up your download is UPLOAD some clients disable sending files to you if you don’t send anything back. Upload speed should be set around 50%-80% of your max connection speed for best results.

Most people unfamiliar with computers will not have a static address on their home network. They will be using DHCP. I think the worst thing about the situation is that people are now equating using the word ‘router’ assuming it has NAT. Funny, people get told that in order to have more computers use the internet at once, they should get a router. But thats not the function of a router, thats a function of Network Address Translation, a *feature* of *some* routers.

For those complaining about their downloads being slow when they hit max upload speed. This has nothing to do with your ISP, it’s a function of TCP. When downloading data via TCP, the machine receiving the data sends packets back to the server letting it know that the packet was received correctly. This is done for error correction purposes. If your uploading pipe is clogged, your computer can’t send those packets out as fast (if at all) and your downloads die.

Here’s one related article or head sown to their main page.

I suppose it’s good for newbs though… This particular article fits the ‘crusty technical person’ personality mentioned previously. Why? If you are using BitTorrent to download, whether it be illegal movie content, or legal iso content… my opinion here, if you don’t know how to configure your router for P2P, then you probably shouldn’t be using it (P2P) yet.

Research. Use Google.

The criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: breadth and depth of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, and price of membership. This one is by the same guy with a top 30. Its dated two weeks later, and lists isohunt.com and thepiratebay.org as 1 & 2

I would also reccommend Slyck. There you can find out about everything p2p. It lites best sites for search bittorrent and ed2k etc. Another one is Torrent Reactor. I like how they pointed out that the technology was legal. defiant.ws is a great search that’s mad fast. It found things ISOhunt couldn’t find for me more than a couple times.

If you were on mIRC then you would know about ircspy which is also hosted and owned by the same group as torrentspy.

LegalTorrents is a collection of Creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which we have made available via BitTorrent

What fun is legal torrents? You get that warm fuzzy feeling that you’re helping out the little guy. At least we dont get shot by the RIAA

I hate the fact that we have to make special note when a torrent is legal because torrents are too often presumed to be illegal. It should be the other way around. Bittorrent is such a great technology, it’s a shame that it’s been exploited so effectively.

This is a great way to search all the top torrent sites quickly.

That’s quite a few…. What I really prefer though are the aggregating ones. Screw having to search one, then go back, search the next, etc… They could have made this site much better than it is… One major thing it is missing is the ability to quickly search all the torrents and have the results on one page. Instead of making a real service they just make it search queries directly into the site themselves which is lame. It would be much better if it actually consolidated the engines together and re-parsed the hits. This is only a step above a page of links to the various sites.

Some alternate sites would be:
torrentz - is way better. This site really searches through all the top torrentz sites and displays the results on one page.
torrenttyphoon is great, searches all the major sites at once.

The company behind BitTorrent — software that’s been widely used to distribute illegal copies of movies and games — is trying to turn it into a Hollywood player, including business deals with the entertainment industry. Recently its top executives flew to Burbank, Calif., for high-level talks with the Motion Picture Association of America.

They want to make BitTorrent force content filtering on its users. I don’t see how that’s ever going to happen, and it just shows how naive the RIAA/MPAA still are. I think this might be just a business talk to maybe try to influence the makers to backing off rather than trying to find a way to use the technology, but we will see. Or is this really a move to acquire the BitTorrent technology, come up with a strategy, and then proceed to shut it all down…?

Maybe they will use BT to move movies and TV to setTopBoxes over the net. It would prove a functional way to distribute large content esp. If you could see it as it comes down.

On the other hand, I see it as more of a way to lessen their financial burden by piggy-backing on users bandwidth, rather than supplying it all themselves. So basically we pay for a movie/song and then the companies selling them just collect the money, rather than having to pay for terrabits of bandwidth per day.

TVIP is the wave of the future. This way, people’s outlooks on filesharing software, mainly bit torrent, will be changed in a positive way because it would be very useful and legal.

This mental block the Industry is having reminded me of Cory Doctorow’s book “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”. They have quite the dilemma on their hands when financial threats no longer deter suspected n’er-do-wells.

Interesting how such a seemingly minor editorial cleanup of a story makes it far less credible. Anyway, here is another link (hopefully doesn’t have popups or spyware but I can’t tell since I have firefox on gnu/linux):

Now it may be inevitable that someone will fork the source code to ensure there is no filtering or tracking of proprietary content being traded via BitTorrent.

Search torrents from multiple torrent sites with this dark google clone for BT.

btbot
isohunt
torrentsearch
bittorrent
yotoshi.org
torrentspy
hypertorrent
filesharingplace
defiant.ws
bi-torrent
tvtorrents
torrentbox
hroughput.de

This is just a little preview of other great torrent-serach resources. Check out a bigger list with details.

Links to various P2P program that offer almost complete anonymity. Great for insane underground info and warez.

The main problem I have with “anonymous” p2p it’s kills speeds. You can obscure yourself but you are not anonyms. Not to mention when you obscure yourself like that you sacrifice speed and reliability.

It is possible to get anonymity on the internet. Drive up to somebodies house use their wireless connection for example. You can also basically route all traffic through god knows how many proxy servers, effectively hiding you for law enforcement, especially if you route through somewhere like Russia. Although technically some agencies could track you down it is a costly exercise.

Many wireless routers log MAC addresses for the DHCP server, also in arp cache on all the machines. a MAC is globally unique so it could be used as evidence to confirm that you’re the one who did the deed. They’d still have to catch you first, but that’s not too difficult since most warez kiddies are braggarts. If the Feds can identify the network they came from, they may be able to pull the ISP’s logs/traffic details & eventually line up a list of suspects.

Anonymity is easily possible. Proxy chaining through lists you find on the net though, not good. They just aren’t safe. All you need to do is spoof your mac address, and you’re identified as a whole other computer by the dhcp server. Better yet, spoof someone elses mac, take their ip, now that’s anonymity. Add that to being on someone else’s wifi, and proxy chaining. Hmmmm, doesn’t get more anonymous than that now does it?

I like the idea of onion routers and random servers used on Tor. These programs are nothing like the old days of Kazaa Lite, much more diffucult for the average user. Anyone still using bit torrent?

Scott Villarosa posted about how to get Gmail to find specific downloads on BitTorrent websites using RSS feeds.

Now thats pretty cool!!! It is obvious how this would be of benefit to the user.

That’s a pretty cool trick - for non-Azureus users. For Azureus users, there’s already have “2″ RSS programs for downloading new torrents.