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wow... Deluge is amazing!
Author:  Geminias [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:10 pm ]
Post subject:  wow... Deluge is amazing!
I got fed up with uTorrent today (cause its not so good when emulated with wine) so I decided to try out a few torrent clients. I uninstalled bittorrent and bit tornado about as fast as I installed them. Azureus is bloated and also has issues connecting to seeders(if you have Rogers ISP anyway). I downloaded deluge and not only do I like its simplistic UI but it has all the features I want plus IT DOWNLOADS FAST. I never realzed that your torrent client could have such an impact on your download speeds. But its truth. I am using the same settings as I used in azureus and utorrent. Azureus was useless, especially with encryption enabled. uTorrent did ok, but it sucked with wine. And my GOD. DELUGE ROCKS. I'm getting 250kb/s on a jurassic park trilogy download that uTorrent managed to only grab 3% of after 2 weeks.


EDIT: Plus I don't want to hear any crap about a fluke. Jurassic Park is one of a few torrents that are downloading at least 10x faster than with uTorrent.
Very Happy
Author:  Tony [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:09 pm ]
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well Rogers is shapeshifting their net traffic. More specifically they are blocking torrents, and since recently they're playing around with injecting their own messages into your http packets. Hmm....

In neutral net, a client should not have too much of an inpact on the speed, but Rogers is very much not neutral.

I'm pretty happy with Azureus (I love Azureus magnetic links!) and haven't had any problems with it, but then again I'm not using Rogers Wink
Author:  md [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:52 pm ]
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I have found that rogers doesn't block any of my torrents. They don't charge me for going over my quota either. I'm thinking either I have some wonderful contract... or they enforce it regionally. Or maybe it's just that I'm one of a small number of people on the local loop.
Author:  Tony [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:00 pm ]
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Rogers throttles my girlfriend's torrents down to 1 kbps.

I've also heard that Rogers might not have an automated system to update accounts, so one could get away with certain deals for as long as their customer profile is not manually brought up during a tech-support call. Though this anecdote deals with a Rogers phone plan, not internet.
Author:  Geminias [ Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:55 am ]
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yeah, with azureus i couldn't get over 3kb/s... it was ridiculous (with encryption too). Since I started using uTorrent I dont even encrypt the traffic since rogers throttles all encrypted traffic. The interesting thing is: the Rogers guy who came to my house to install rogers home phone told me, that contrary to popular belief, using different ports actually can thwart throttlers. I wish i had asked him why, but at the time I didnt believe him so I used the port he specifically told me to use, and voila, i was able to get decent download speeds again.

My guess is because Rogers had to stop indiscriminantly shaping traffic that looked like bt because of all the tiny little issues that were sprouting up. For instance, certain businesses and schools use varying protocols to allow workers to communicate with their servers, and Rogers packet shaping was interfering with some of this traffic. So maybe as a result they are now sticking with only blocking the very obvious bt traffic on standard bt ports. thats my guess anyways.
Author:  Bobrobyn [ Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:16 am ]
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Azureus might be heavy on memory...java arg!!!!....but at least it's not as heavy on the CPU as python is. I find that Deluge is pretty heavy on my CPU. Maybe it's just me, or the version I was using? I tried it a few months ago. *shrugs*
Author:  Geminias [ Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:33 pm ]
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I'd trade CPU for memory any day. (especially since it's not that much worse)
Author:  Mazer [ Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:19 pm ]
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You might also try Transmission. It's very lightweight but still has a few useful features (not sure about encryption though).

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