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short360uk
03-28-2004, 01:47 PM
just downloaded the latest version of bit torrent, the downloads seem so slow been downloading a movie foe 12 hours now and its only 32% completed. ive set the ports like it says but dont know anythin about the yellow and green status lights ive not seen any. can anyone help please

DanB
03-28-2004, 02:27 PM
What client are using? Whats your interent connection speed? :unsure:

johnnytightlips2
03-28-2004, 02:43 PM
the speed of the downloads mainy depend on how much seeds there are and i feel ur pain cuz i always download rare movies and it takes about three days to download. :) :) :) :)

muchspl2
03-28-2004, 09:30 PM
you need this client to see green/yellow
http://bittornado.com/
that why I prefer this for n00bs
its color coded. green good
yellow bad
here is a good faq if your so incliend
http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/

short360uk
03-28-2004, 09:53 PM
im using bittorrent 3.2.1. my downloads never get any faster than 15kbs. my connetion speed is 600k.

CPU1
03-28-2004, 10:26 PM
do what muchspl2 said then

short360uk
03-28-2004, 11:15 PM
got all that but dont know how to use it properly, sorry but i thick as shit lol

aoyv73
04-04-2004, 05:08 PM
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ I run shadow no problems tried a few

muchspl2
04-04-2004, 10:48 PM
Originally posted by aoyv73@4 April 2004 - 12:08
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ I run shadow no problems tried a few
looks like the one suprnova was passing around with spywear/adwear I&#39;d stay away from that client <_<

ricochet
04-05-2004, 01:45 AM
Try http://www.themxdomain.com/ it has a lot of stuff in here and a lot of clients for you to check out. Find the 1 thats best for you. My fav. is Azureus, But it is hard to work for a noob.

aoyv73
04-05-2004, 07:10 PM
I use both BT clients have 2 pcs spyware mine shows clean.

DJ2004
04-06-2004, 01:29 PM
Iv never had any probs, here on my home conenction, I get speeds from bt around the 5.5MB/S and have reached over 8MB/s