Irc Vs Bitorrent

[silent VI]

i use Mirc just click. click. rightclick, and paste and the dl starts right away @ my max download speed. I hear everyone talking like bt is the shit so....... poll please?

[4th gen]

My vote for IRC. Bitt is too insecure

[RealitY]

I use both although generally BT is rather insecure compared to IRC unless your a member of a private community in which case BT can be better and easier to find stuff...

[lee551]

totally for irc. bt is way to slow for me all the time, dunno why :huh:

[AcID ZeR0]

BT / torrentz.com I never get any speed or connection problems with them, However I do with mIRC lol it should be the other way round I know.

[daniboy]

i use bt cuz i have no ideaa how 2 use irc... like where 2 find files and stuff
ftp pubs r also good

[vivitron 15]

not entirely sure how irc is that much safer? surely you still give out an ip?

and isnt irc a one-way system? never used it, but i always thought everyone dled one at a time, whereas bt you all pool bandwidth.

[Benno]

I use both and I wouldnt place one above the other.


and isnt irc a one-way system? never used it, but i always thought everyone dled one at a time, whereas bt you all pool bandwidth.

Yeah, from IRC you donwload from bots or servers. But they are pretty fast :D

[RealitY]

Originally posted by vivitron 15@15 April 2004 - 11:03
not entirely sure how irc is that much safer? surely you still give out an ip?
You've answered your own question...

and isnt irc a one-way system? never used it, but i always thought everyone dled one at a time, whereas bt you all pool bandwidth.
Most leech on one IRC and yes its one at a time, whereas BT is pooled with just about anybody on large sites such as SuperNova especially.

[4th gen]

Originally posted by vivitron 15@15 April 2004 - 18:03
not entirely sure how irc is that much safer? surely you still give out an ip?
Yes, you still give out an IP whilst on IRC, however, you're not giving your ip out to hundreds/thousands of users at a time. Also, how many people have you heard of who've been sued or sent letters from their ISPs from sharing through IRC? I've not heard of any, but I've heard of a few through Bitt

[lightshow]

I use both irc [Mirc] and bittorent [Bittornado] and I have to say that I'm beginning to like bittorent better.

Mirc usually is there for the new releases and those who have the new releases are usually really fast and have lots of open slots.

But bittorent is a close second and the que's are gone so you can really start downloading anytime.

I start with irc and if i have to wait in a long que then I switch to bittorent. Otherwise I usually always check irc first.

Also with bittorent, games seem to stay longer (in my case I'm talking about ps2 rips) so I have a better chance to request a game than with irc where i have practically no say.

Overall, irc first, bittorent second

[vivitron 15]

i suppose - but surely, in reality, youre just leeching from irc...its not file sharing, its file downloading...hmm, seems a bizarre concept to be on filesharingtalk.com, discussing leeching






(and yes, im playing devils advocate here - dont take this too seriously ;))

[Mad Cat]

mIRC always has giant queues for me. No point for me really anyway, BT maxes my 60 kB/s easily. If I have about 300 kB/s down I'd be on IRC all the time, however.

[Formula1]

IRC all the way , BT is probably the most overated p2p i've ever used (IMHO). My speed on BT maxes out to 20KB/s and on mIRC its 380 KB/s , and its pretty easy to use too. And on BT after downloading like 90% of the file i get a connected to tracker error, totally B$...

[silent VI]

:huh: so i guess irc owns