Mortal Kombaaaaaaaaaaat (à prononcer comme dans la chanson de Moby) ! A l'évocation de ce nom, c'est un torrent de souvenirs qui déferle dans l'inconscient des gamers de l'ancienne école. Les pièces de 5 francs avalées en masse par une grosse machine d'arcade, des combattants d'un « réalisme » encore jamais atteint grâce à un nouveau système révolutionnaire, le motion capture et une violence inéga...

Mortal Kombaaaaaaaaaaat (à prononcer comme dans la chanson de Moby) ! A l'évocation de ce nom, c'est un torrent de souvenirs qui déferle dans l'inconscient des gamers de l'ancienne école. Les pièces de 5 francs avalées en masse par une grosse machine d'arcade, des combattants d'un « réalisme » encore jamais atteint grâce à un nouveau système révolutionnaire, le motion capture et une violence inéga...

Mortal Kombaaaaaaaaaaat (à prononcer comme dans la chanson de Moby) ! A l'évocation de ce nom, c'est un torrent de souvenirs qui déferle dans l'inconscient des gamers de l'ancienne école. Les pièces de 5 francs avalées en masse par une grosse machine d'arcade, des combattants d'un « réalisme » encore jamais atteint grâce à un nouveau système révolutionnaire, le motion capture et une violence inéga...

I'm having trouble with Vuze. I'm new to torrents, and love the idea... but when i choose a file to download it starts out okay, but then goes to like 4kb/second with an ETA of 17 days.

Are there ways to improve the speed? Should i look for files only with a certain number of people "seeding"? Is there a site for torrent files that's more reliable in terms of d/l speed? Thanks very much for any replies.

The Internet is close to a meltdown, according to The Register. The culprit, according to author Richard Bennett, is the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, which introduced a new type of file transfer with its most recent alpha version. BitTorrent clients have long been using the TCP protocol to facilitate file transfers, but now uTorrent is moving to UDP, a protocol that is very popular for streaming media, VoIP and other real-time transfers. This will essentially lead to torrents eating up all of the bandwidth available for VoIP, according to Bennet, who calls uTorrent’s UDP transfers a “net-killing feature.”br / br / Of course, the same argument was made when UDP-based VoIP connections and video streams became popular — and the Internet hasn’t ceased to exist. The truth is that uTorrent’s UDP implementation could actually be a step toward alleviating congestion problems. Bennet, however, decided to ignore this and instead serve up nothing more than a thinly veiled rant against net neutrality.a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/12/01/bittorrent-at-war-with-voip-hardly/" target="_blank" Continue reading on Gigaom.com.br / /abr/div class="tagblock"small class="ttags"Tags: a href="http://technorati.com/tag/utorrent" rel="tag"utorrent/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bittorrent" rel="tag"bittorrent/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/udp" rel="tag"udp/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tcp" rel="tag"tcp/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/theregister" rel="tag"theregister/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/netneutrality" rel="tag"netneutrality/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gigaom" rel="tag"gigaom/a/smalldiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?a=nw7IO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?i=nw7IO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?a=ySgWO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?i=ySgWO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?a=M6fpo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?i=M6fpo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?a=ar95o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?i=ar95o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?a=KTVKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/p2pblog?i=KTVKO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/p2pblog/~4/471865722" height="1" width="1"/

Hi, I just got uTorrent and the torrents aren't downloading. Is it because of a port or something?

Thanks

The Internet is close to a meltdown, according to The Register. The culprit, according to author Richard Bennett, is the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, which introduced a new type of file transfer with its most recent alpha version. BitTorrent clients have long been using the TCP protocol to facilitate file transfers, but now uTorrent is moving to UDP, a protocol that is very popular for streaming media, VoIP and other real-time transfers. This will essentially lead to torrents eating up all of the bandwidth available for VoIP, according to Bennet, who calls uTorrent’s UDP transfers a “net-killing feature.”

Of course, the same argument was made when UDP-based VoIP connections and video streams became popular — and the Internet hasn’t ceased to exist. The truth is that uTorrent’s UDP implementation could actually be a step toward alleviating congestion problems. Bennet, however, decided to ignore this and instead serve up nothing more than a thinly veiled rant against net neutrality.

Bennet’s piece is based on a belief that UDP traffic is “aggressive” and uncontrollable, whereas TCP is the nice and proper protocol that can be easily managed. This notion ignores the basic fact that P2P developers, in order to make the protocol work at all, need to implement TCP-like functionalities on top of UDP, one of which includes congestion control. You simply can’t operate a P2P client that eats up all of its users’ bandwidth, much less build a successful business model on top of it.

BitTorrent Inc. has been working on establishing itself as a CDN solutions provider, offering media companies the ability to tap into its vast user base to deliver video and other huge files. Of course, this only works if end users are actually willing to provide some part of their upload bandwidth, and they are only willing to do so if file transfers don’t stop them from doing other things, like playing online games or making VoIP calls.

BitTorrent has traditionally entrusted its users with figuring out how to balance their network load, meaning that users had to manually limit their client’s maximum upload and download rate in case they encountered choppy Skype connections or similar problems.

uTorrent’s new implementation wants to automate this process by regulating its UDP traffic in relationship to ongoing TCP transfers. The company has tested its congestion control in recent months, and the first results seem encouraging, as a quote from a report (PDF) that the company recently shared with the IETF reveals:

“In one example, (BitTorrent) was used to download and seed game updates while an online multiplayer game was being played. With TCP used for transport the way it is usually used in BitTorrent, ping times shot up to 2000 milliseconds and beyond and stayed there while seeding. With the novel congestion control, ping times were in the 50-100 millisecond range, while the upload rate remained essentially unchanged.”

For now, we do have to take the company’s word for it that this actually works. uTorrent is not open source, and the client’s UDP file transfer protocol hasn’t been publicly specified, either. BitTorrent Inc. V-P Simon Morris has declared in a public response to the Register article that his company is working with the IETF to find “solutions that can be standardized and broadly adopted in due course.” In fact, BitTorrent engineer Stanislav Shalunov is co-chairing an IETF working group for this very purpose.

So why did Bennett chose to ignore all of this? Because a little scaremongering can go a long way to make the case for an ISP-based network management clampdown on P2P traffic. The only way to prevent the coming Internet meltdown, he contends, is to filter out uTorrent’s UDP transfers on the ISP level, and the only way to get this done is do away with net neutrality. Right — because if there’s one thing that we’ve learned from the financial sector, it’s that meltdowns are best prevented by doing away with regulation.

Richard Bennett reports that one of the leading BitTorrent clients, uTorrent, has decided to use UDP rather than TCP as the protocol for moving torrents through the Net. Especially since uTorrent is owned by BitTorrent, Inc., and thus is the paradigmatic BitTorrent client, this has stirred up a lively debate about whether this is a good thing for the Net, and whether it is proof that Net neutrality is counterproductive, necessary, or irrelevant.

I am in way over my head here, so please correct me if I get this wrong, but as I understand it, UDP is generally used for data that is time-sensitive and that isn’t rendered useless by some data loss, such as VoIP and online gaming. Unlike TCP, UDP doesn’t have a self-governing mechanism that manages traffic when it gets crowded; UDP lets a server just keep sending bits regardless of the current state of the network. uTorrent (which had previously been using UDP only for lightweight metadata) has started using UDP for the data itself — the files that people are torrenting — to get around the TCP throttling mechanisms some of the ISPs use, raising the fear that all that UDP data will congest the tubes.

Richard Bennett says this shows that Net neutrality will choke the Net. uTorrent talks about it here. I found a forum at BroadbandReports that provided multiple and useful perspectives.

As for me, I don’t know what to think. I am open for instruction.

[Tags: utorrent bittorrent net_neutrality ]

So I’m looking around for a fact. Specifically, an answer to this question: Who came up with CRM — Customer Relationship Management — as an idea (and later as a software and business category). It must have come from somebody, or somecompany, somewhere, right?

I just looked up History of CRM on Google. I’ve tried other search terms. It’s a slog to swim upstream against the torrent of promotional BS. Wikipedia’s entry is blah, and without any historical references.

Anybody know?

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RSS can be a real time saver for BitTorrent enthusiasts. Rather than manually trawling many torrent sites hunting for material, most will agree it’s much more convenient for the content to come to the user. This is exactly what you can achieve by using RSS and these ten handy tips.

For those not familiar with the term, RSS is an acronym that stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. It’s a really convenient mechanism which allows you to receive regular automated updates from your favorite sites.

Most news sites, blogs and podcasts have RSS feeds that let you automatically receive updates when a new article is published. However, many BitTorrent sites have also started publishing RSS feeds of their listings, allowing users to download content without having to search for files manually.

In this article we will cover some of the most useful RSS tips and tricks for BitTorrent users.

1. Download via RSS

Let’s start of with the most important part - downloading .torrent files from an RSS feed. There are a couple of BitTorrent clients that are able to handle RSS feeds. Bitcomet, uTorrent and Vuze for example all have an RSS feature. A list of all compatible clients is available on Wikipedia.

The process of setting up RSS downloading differs for each individual client, but it’s not hard to figure out. uTorrent has published an elaborate guide on its website that walks you through the various steps and options. The most important part, however, is where to find the RSS feeds. The next tips will cover this.

2. Search Based RSS Feeds

Most of the larger BitTorrent sites offer search-based RSS feeds. The reason they’re called “search-based feeds” is because they are feeds that relate to particular search terms. For example, if you search for ‘TorrentFreak’ the search results will have a link (orange button) to a feed that will send you updates on all torrents that match this search term.

3. Uploader RSS Feeds

The search feed may work well for less generic searches, but in some cases feeds based on torrent uploader might work better. User based RSS feeds might be a good idea if you want to download all the content that is uploaded by a specific user, aXXo for example. Uploader RSS feeds are supported by The Pirate Bay, Mininova and several other sites.

4. Premade TV-Torrent Feeds

Since quite a few people use BitTorrent as a VCR or TiVo alternative, RSS feeds are a great help in automating TV-show downloads. There are several ways to import your favorite TV-shows into your download queue, but perhaps one of the most convenient is FeedMyTorrent. FMT offers several pre-configured RSS feeds that won’t list any duplicate episodes. The site only launched recently and as such is still in Beta, but the feeds are fully operational.

5. Create a Custom TV-Torrent Feed

Premade feeds are convenient, but impossible to customize. BitTorrent users who want some more control over what appears in their RSS feed might want to give tvRSS a try. With the advanced search options everyone can generate a personalized TV-torrent feed in no time. Detailed instructions on how to do this can be found in one of our previous articles.

6. Download Torrents Remotely with RSS

Instead of relying on content from specific users, tags or searches, there are also ways to add torrents to a feed manually. This can be used to download torrents remotely, so when you’re away from the computer your BitTorrent client is running on in the background. An easy way to add torrents to a personal feed is to use mininova’s bookmark feature. Another service that offers custom feeds, not restricted to mininova is FeedMyTorrents. For both services you’ll need to have an account.

7. Ted

Ted, the torrent episode downloader, is an advanced TV-torrent downloader that makes it easier to import TV-torrents into your BitTorrent client. Ted keeps you up-to-date by checking the RSS feeds of your favorite BitTorrent site for new episodes of your favorite shows. The application comes with several pre-added feeds, so there is no need to find the RSS feeds yourself.

8. Broadcatch with Miro

A great example of an all-in-one BitTorrent solution for video downloads is Miro, formerly known as the Democracy player. Miro is an Internet TV player that allows you to automatically download and watch the latest TV shows, video podcasts and more. These players are especially useful for people who only use BitTorrent to download video files, since the BitTorrent client is built in. Miro is platform independent and comes with several predefined channels. However, you can also add your own RSS feeds for your favorite TV-shows.

9. Read Those Feeds

In the first tip we explained how RSS feeds can be used to download torrents automatically. However, RSS feeds can of course also be used as a notification system. That is, you can use BitTorrent feeds with your regular RSS reader, and decide whether you want to download the torrents that appear in the feed yourself. This way you will have total control over your downloads. The downside is that the downloads will not be loaded into your BitTorrent client automatically.

10. The Latest BitTorrent News

Last, but not least, we encourage every BitTorrent enthusiast to add our RSS feed to their feed reader. Not only will this keep you updated on everything that happens in the wonderful world of BitTorrent, you might also stumble upon some useful tips every now and then. For those people who want to watch TorrentFreak’s latest news, a BitTorrent compatible feed for our TV-show is available here, or alternatively you can subscribe with iTunes.

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I have a file that is 74% finished... but since i left the house and came back, it won't restart downloading. It says 6 (9) peers... so i would think i should be getting something trickling in?

Is there a way to jumpstart it again? Thanks for any help.

I recently bought a new Aluminum Macbook (2.4Ghz) and I'm having some issues regarding HD space. To be more specific, when I'm downloading torrents, I usually get the message that I need to free up space on my startup disk.

This makes no sense to me because I have 200G+ of available space. I think this issue may have something to do with system maintenance, but I'm not sure what. Any ideas? Keep in mind that I'm using utorrent beta, so that may have something to do with it.

I'm not sure what it means to clear user cache or any of that nonsense, so can someone please fill me in on what I should do to keep my machine running smooth? Thanks!