Torrent clients

[LucienSanchez]

'sup folks... i've finally got a new laptop and broadband in my new pad, but it's been ages since i did any of this torrent stuff, and i fancy stealing me some films and music. What i want to know from the TEF nerdlingers out there, is what is the best torrent client to acquire, and the best places to search for said torrents...

Ta muchly!

[flammableBen]

utorrent is the neatest smally option. It be what I use.

[Rustle]

Use utorrent also set your port above 45000 anything below is monitored by certain organizations.

As for site's mininova is the largest public one if you go private you must seed back what you take' example
you DL 700mb you give back 700mb or the site will ban you.

[flammableBen]

Use utorrent also set your port above 45000 anything below is monitored by certain organizations.

I'm going to call myth on that one.

[Rustle]

Call it what you want but all top sites use ports above that or even above 49000' otherwise they wont let you connect.I use 65535

Public sites they will let you tho.

[flammableBen]

I just can't see why it would make a difference that's all. I'm happy to be proved wrong though.

[pauld]

Azureus (or however it's spelt) has always served me quite well. But I can't really say I've played the torrenting field that much

[sonic youth]

utorrent is a very lightweight program and the best option out there.

and i double-call myth

[Samdy Gray]

Call it what you want but all top sites use ports above that or even above 49000' otherwise they wont let you connect.I use 65535

Public sites they will let you tho.

That's bollocks.

[Rustle]

ok then have it your way i tried to help.

[LucienSanchez]

Thanks guys!

[Rustle]

Taken from SCT which is a topsite

In order to use use our tracker you must configure your client to use any port range that does not contain those ports (a range within the region 49152 through 65535 is preferable, cf. IANA). Notice that some clients, like Azureus 2.0.7.0 or higher, use a single port for all torrents, while most others use one port per open torrent. The size of the range you choose should take this into account (typically less than 10 ports wide. There is no benefit whatsoever in choosing a wide range, and there are possible security implications).

These ports are used for connections between peers, not client to tracker. Therefore this change will not interfere with your ability to use other trackers (in fact it should increase your speed with torrents from any tracker, not just ours). Your client will also still be able to connect to peers that are using the standard ports. If your client does not allow custom ports to be used, you will have to switch to one that does.

Do not ask us, or in the forums, which ports you should choose. The more random the choice is the harder it will be for ISPs to catch on to us and start limiting speeds on the ports we use. If we simply define another range ISPs will start throttling that range also.

Finally, remember to forward the chosen ports in your router and/or open them in your firewall, should you have them. See the Why is my port listed as "---"  section and links therein for more information on this.

[Simon Pieman]

I know certain ISPs throttle common ports so it is worthwhile changing to a more unusual one just to get faster download speeds.

[flammableBen]

I still say they are wrong. If ISP's really throttled traffic by port number, it would make sense to use a low port commonly used by something that you don't. For example whatever port Battle.net uses if you don't play World of Warcraft or something.

ISPs which do this are more likely to pick up on the bittorrent packet headers or something. I would have thought anyway.

Also they're not talking about people getting caught and sued my movie studios or whoever, they're talking about ISP's recognising traffic which uses lots of bandwidth and limiting it's use. The copyright enforcement monkeys have much easier ways of detecting you. Click on an active torrent in utorrent and then click peers. Hello!.

[Rustle]

That's the thing tho the minute they do that they are breaking the law by connecting to a torrent,this is where the loophole is if the MPAA or RIAA tried to convict you on that basis.

they are not allowed to connect to a torrent,which is why they get people like mediadefender to do their dirty work for them.

This is also why a program called peerguardian2 is used it stops any organization connecting to you.