[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

[velociraptor]

On 4/10/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:10:42 -0700
> velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > For example, KBittorrent provides UPnP, but I can't figure out how to
> > > make it work with my firewall machine.
> >
> > I have a simple WRT54GS-type firewall, so I just set up a specific
> > port forwarded for each machine which might be running BT.  When I
> > said "random" I didn't mean random for each session, just randomly
> > pick one and use it.
>
> Of course, I assume you know that there is no such thing as a random sequence
> of 1.
>
> But I know what you mean.
>
> I was reading some of Schneir stuff earlier and I just couldn't help it.

Geeks. :-)

> > The trackers don't care what port you use,
> > though many underground trackers ban the "standard" one.
>
> I find if I don't use the standard range, I get slower downloads.
>
> You are right that it should not matter, but it seems to anyway.

I've never measured relative performance, so I couldn't say.  I'm
pretty happy with the speed with which I am able to download (and
upload) things.

If someone would just make a decent Torrent client for the Mac or for
Linux (e.g. on par w/uTorrent), I'd be happier.  Azureus is a lot
better than it used to be but is still relatively piggish and has no
schedule-based bandwidth management like uTorrent.  I briefly tried a
number of Linux torrent clients and managed only to get pissed off
after deleting about of gig of data I was seeding because the default
action of the app was to *delete all data associated with a torrent*
when you removed it from the list of things being downloaded/seeded.

I still haven't decided how I want to get my fileserver machine with
the toasted mobo IDE channel back on line.  It seems a waste to buy an
add-on IDE card given the age of the machine, and I have no interest
in spending the limited computer budget on another non-Mac x86 box.
The current idea is to get the SO a Mac Mini and convert his Windows
box into a file server.  But the budget can't handle that at the
moment, as there are other priorities--like a mesh armored motorcycle
jacket for my daily commute and tuition/books starting next month.

=Nadine=