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Alternative to Azureus?

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  • 01-07-2005 11:31am
    #1
    Drag00n79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I was using Azureus for all my downloads. Everything was fine until I downloaded their latest update about a fortnight ago. Since then my downloads are really slow (5-10kb/s) and then come to a halt altogether after about 70MB. I was wondering is there another program with the similar features to Azureus, which I can use? Any help appreciated.


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Have you updated your Jave Runtime Environment. You need to have JRE1.5 (or JRE5) otherwise it's dog slow.


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    Drag00n79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Drag00n79


    Thanks, I just did that. It still seems slow though. At the moment I'm getting a download speed of about 12/13kB/s. I have the upload speeds limited to 12kB/s — I am never sure how high to limit that. The face is a green smiley.


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    bear in mind that the download speed is limited by the upload speed of the peers. So maybe it's just that torrent.


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    #5
    Drag00n79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Drag00n79


    I changed the settings of Azureus as follows and I'm now getting much faster downloads (around 50kB/s).
    8 kb for global max upload speed
    0 kb for global max download speed
    2 default max upload slots per torrent
    100 maximum number of connections per torrent
    100 maximum number of connections globally


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    #6
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    I'm experiencing the same slowness with the download speeds since that upgrade.

    To be honest it's never been that fast on Azureus. Always around 2 - 20k... Had 60 once.


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    irishshogun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭irishshogun


    I use bitcomet, never slower than 30 and reg over the 70 mark, upto 110 on a good day :)


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    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    What command line Bittorrent clients are out there, while on the topic?

    Perferably something cross-OS, like Azureus (I use OSX, Linux and Windows at home)


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Fenster wrote:
    What command line Bittorrent clients are out there, while on the topic?

    Perferably something cross-OS, like Azureus (I use OSX, Linux and Windows at home)
    The original client is command line, and written in Python, so thoroughly OS-independant.


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    #10
    Duffman'05
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭Duffman'05


    can anyone tell me how to download Azureus? I had it before but it got deleted and now whenever i try to get it installed for free i get brought to a 5 step guide to installing it but it just leads me HEAnet.com and theres nothing there related to it, can anyone help??


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Latest version at time of print: 2.3.0.4. Go to azureus.sourceforge.net for the project homepage.


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    AudioMove
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭AudioMove


    I use BitComet at the moment and find it one of the best torrent apps at the moment. It also allows you to download individual files inside torrents too which is great.


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    #13
    karltimber
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 1,921 Mod ✭✭✭✭karltimber


    I have started to use Azureus and found that after 2-3mins the pc reboots itself.

    I power it down at this stage as I thought it could be spyware etc trying to gain access on the reboot ???

    Have nay of you seen this before and how to fix.
    Why do folks change their ports --is this needed and how is it done if so


    thx


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    #14
    Zapp Brannigan
    Registered Users Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    I find utorrent to be quite good.
    Google it.


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    #15
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Azureus gets about 200KB/s for me its far better than the rest


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    #16
    peckerhead
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    irishshogun wrote:
    I use bitcomet, never slower than 30 and reg over the 70 mark, upto 110 on a good day :)
    Me too. What do you set your global max upload rate to? (I presume you're on a 1Mb line?)


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    #17
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    I will second µTorrent, it's a healthy mix of Azureus and ABC, but without killing your DNS so you can't surf the web and torrent at the same time (stupid Azureus).
    It's still a bit buggy at the moment, but it's number 1 for me! :D


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    #18
    EL WOG
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭EL WOG


    Anyone know how to setup Azureus correctly to increase download speeds,
    I only installed it the other day with a java program too, can get speeds as low as 500b/s and max of about 11kb/s, changing all the time, any help would be great
    thanks
    EL WOG


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    #19
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Try this

    http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html


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    #20
    Gandalf23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Gandalf23


    Make sure that the Windows XP firewall is not turned on. I updates Azureus and was having similar problems to the op. This was fixed by turning off WinXP firewall.


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