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CrazyMax

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Copper Customer

"Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any good?" , posted Sat 24 May 18:26

Hi,

Been reading about various sources to get anime, including sites. They all use a prog called Bit Torrent I believe. I've been reading up on it, but have not seen anyone's opinions on it, and if there is anything good or bad about it.

I know some of you here know about it, I was wondering if you could give me any feedback about it.

Thanx

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Gen

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Red Carpet V.I.P- Platinum Member

"Re(1):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 18:42

quote:
Hi,

Been reading about various sources to get anime, including sites. They all use a prog called Bit Torrent I believe. I've been reading up on it, but have not seen anyone's opinions on it, and if there is anything good or bad about it.

I know some of you here know about it, I was wondering if you could give me any feedback about it.

Thanx

it's slow. The only good thing, if it is true, is that is decreases bandwidth useage on the net. It may give a means for hackers to get to you too....

Rid Hershel

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Re(2):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 18:46

No waiting on queues, and I get 20 to 40k of speed usually, I won't complain.

OmegaDog

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Red Carpet Regular Member

"Re(1):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 18:57

I myself think it's a godsend. It is slow for the first few seconds, even on a T3 line. But then, I get about 60kb/sec on a DSL line, and I've reached 1.2 MB/sec back at the university. You have to be careful if your ISP/ITS is picky about its users having a lot of upstream activity, as you can be sending both a lot of KB and a lot of packets out -- there's supposedly an experimental version where you can cap how much you upload.

But, yeah -- for me, it's made getting stuff a lot, LOT easier.

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Fuchikoma

420th Post

Gold Customer

"Re(2):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 19:44

quote:
I myself think it's a godsend. It is slow for the first few seconds, even on a T3 line. But then, I get about 60kb/sec on a DSL line, and I've reached 1.2 MB/sec back at the university. You have to be careful if your ISP/ITS is picky about its users having a lot of upstream activity, as you can be sending both a lot of KB and a lot of packets out -- there's supposedly an experimental version where you can cap how much you upload.

But, yeah -- for me, it's made getting stuff a lot, LOT easier.

Slightly slower, but very very easy to use. It's as simple as downloading the program, then just clicking on links on webpages. It's very good for newbies that don't know how to use usenet or irc.

Freeter

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Re(2):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 19:45

quote:
But, yeah -- for me, it's made getting stuff a lot, LOT easier.

Same here. I loathe queues. Thanks to Bittorrent I've been able to see some of the new releases like GITS and Sakura Wars 3 without much hassle.

Try it out, you might be glad you did.

CrazyMax

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Copper Customer

"Re(1):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 21:04

Thanks again.

I appreciate all the input, may give it a try tomorrow, there is so much I want to see that I just can't afford. So I'd like to try out an episode or two before I go out and get the discs.

Maximum gratitude

sabo10

470th Post

Gold Customer

"Re(2):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 21:27

BT rocks.

animesuki.com went down...

Now I use baka-updates.com

Anyone else know sites that keep track of anime BT releases?

Welcone
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Please give me the Jesus advent

Satoshi_Miwa

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Re(3):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sat 24 May 23:06

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BT rocks.

animesuki.com went down...

Now I use baka-updates.com

Anyone else know sites that keep track of anime BT releases?

I tend to use http://anime.mircx.com / for my BT updates these days.

BT is great for new files, though it can be hard to find a seed for older files. So you do have to be quick with it. The plus side is it's much quicker than IRC queues...

Separated at Birth?

Undead Fred

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Red Carpet Regular Member

"Re(3):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sun 25 May 00:25

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animesuki.com went down...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whee! Summertime!

Fuchikoma

421th Post

Gold Customer

"Re(4):Opinions needed: Is Bit Torrent any goo" , posted Sun 25 May 00:56

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animesuki.com went down...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Animesuki isn't gone for good.... they just have to switch servers because of Denial of Service attacks. They'll be back on a new server... just use anime.mircx.com in the meantime