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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
The app itself works fine.
-- Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP Find out about the MS MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx "Greg R" wrote in message ... http://bt.degreez.net/firewalled.html Kind of make me think this program is spyware. Greg R |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
You should probably find out what BitTorrent is before you pass judgment on
it. :-) -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Greg R" wrote in message ... http://bt.degreez.net/firewalled.html Kind of make me think this program is spyware. Greg R |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:20:33 -0400, "Richard G. Harper"
wrote: You should probably find out what BitTorrent is before you pass judgment on it. :-) Duh Richard? What do you think I am asking? This is why I posted to xp as well 98 group to get people comment on this program and how it works for each system. I didn't pass Judgement except for one point. This sites says to disable your firewall. That is bad advice. Yes you can allow it access to the port. Since I have ghost image backup. I tried it. It was not faster than a normal download at all. (I was downloading mozilla alpha for the record). Yes I gave bittorrent full access. Greg R |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
Are you *sure* you know what BT is designed to do?
http://btfaq.com/cgi-bin/fom?file=2 It's not something you put on your own machine to enhance download speeds. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "Greg R" wrote in message ... On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:20:33 -0400, "Richard G. Harper" wrote: You should probably find out what BitTorrent is before you pass judgment on it. :-) Duh Richard? What do you think I am asking? This is why I posted to xp as well 98 group to get people comment on this program and how it works for each system. I didn't pass Judgement except for one point. This sites says to disable your firewall. That is bad advice. Yes you can allow it access to the port. Since I have ghost image backup. I tried it. It was not faster than a normal download at all. (I was downloading mozilla alpha for the record). Yes I gave bittorrent full access. Greg R |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:12:48 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote: Are you *sure* you know what BT is designed to do? http://btfaq.com/cgi-bin/fom?file=2 It's not something you put on your own machine to enhance download speeds. Garry check this out http://dessent.net/btfaq/ Scoll down too "How does BitTorrent compare to other forms of file transfer?" |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
I understand. But as I see it, if you are going to test it, you have to test
it on a network that is BT enabled, not just any old download. What you put on your own machine is a client. What you download has to be from a BT-enabled server (and the network that includes other BT clients.) You said you tried it on Mozilla Alpha--are you certain that the download was started from a BT-enabled server, and if so, how many peers and seeds might there be online at the moment? All of these are parameters and many more need to be considered, and even if they are all available, the only difference you are going to see is if there is a heavy demand on the server when you try the server-only download. Yes, disabling the firewall is a bad idea, but that's not what the page you originally referred to says to do. Heck, look farther down the page you just linked to. It's all laid out in great gory detail. It says to open certain ports for the specific purpose of letting BT do its thing. Whether or not opening those specific ports is wise, I don't know. Firewalls are not my bailiwick. But your questions and responses are, honestly, such that one must wonder how well you understand the entire BT concept in the first place. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "Greg R" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:12:48 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Are you *sure* you know what BT is designed to do? http://btfaq.com/cgi-bin/fom?file=2 It's not something you put on your own machine to enhance download speeds. Garry check this out http://dessent.net/btfaq/ Scoll down too "How does BitTorrent compare to other forms of file transfer?" |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
Gary
After reading some sites. I understand it to be a file sharing client. Even through mozilla.org try's to fool you In my opinion. I can't even understand why they want to use a program like that. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.8a1 I just got confused. One place I read it said downloads would be faster. Greg R On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:33:59 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: I understand. But as I see it, if you are going to test it, you have to test it on a network that is BT enabled, not just any old download. What you put on your own machine is a client. What you download has to be from a BT-enabled server (and the network that includes other BT clients.) You said you tried it on Mozilla Alpha--are you certain that the download was started from a BT-enabled server, and if so, how many peers and seeds might there be online at the moment? All of these are parameters and many more need to be considered, and even if they are all available, the only difference you are going to see is if there is a heavy demand on the server when you try the server-only download. Yes, disabling the firewall is a bad idea, but that's not what the page you originally referred to says to do. Heck, look farther down the page you just linked to. It's all laid out in great gory detail. It says to open certain ports for the specific purpose of letting BT do its thing. Whether or not opening those specific ports is wise, I don't know. Firewalls are not my bailiwick. But your questions and responses are, honestly, such that one must wonder how well you understand the entire BT concept in the first place. |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
The site says you should allow the app access to the listening ports that it
wants. By default, most bittorrent windows use ports 6881-6999. As long as you open those ports, you'll get much increased speeds. -- Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP Find out about the MS MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx "Greg R" wrote in message ... On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:20:33 -0400, "Richard G. Harper" wrote: You should probably find out what BitTorrent is before you pass judgment on it. :-) Duh Richard? What do you think I am asking? This is why I posted to xp as well 98 group to get people comment on this program and how it works for each system. I didn't pass Judgement except for one point. This sites says to disable your firewall. That is bad advice. Yes you can allow it access to the port. Since I have ghost image backup. I tried it. It was not faster than a normal download at all. (I was downloading mozilla alpha for the record). Yes I gave bittorrent full access. Greg R |
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Is this bad advice or a bad program or both?
That's not how I read your "question" at all. I read it as a comment that
you considered BitTorrent was untrustworthy because you need to open up lots of ports for it to work correctly. If you had said something more like, "Why does BitTorrent need a lot of open ports?" that would have been a much more clear request for information. Since almost every BitTorrent client site, as well as the main BitTorrent site itself, has FAQs that explain how the program works, I ass-u-med you had read them and was not happy with what you read - not that you hadn't read them at all and wanted someone to explain the concept to you. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Greg R" wrote in message ... On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:20:33 -0400, "Richard G. Harper" wrote: You should probably find out what BitTorrent is before you pass judgment on it. :-) Duh Richard? What do you think I am asking? |
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