Why's it always BitComet?

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2bagamer

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#69488 9-Oct-2010 06:27

Hello Forumers,

lately when i have been downloading offpeak, i always seem to find like 1 seeder who has bitcomet. ( Majority of the time with callplusnet, The dude seems to give me like 400kbs . Is there something amazing with bitcomet? Does it give like mega fast speeds or something?

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#389822 9-Oct-2010 10:45

That would be Slingshot torrent cache your connecting too.

Username01

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#389823 9-Oct-2010 10:45

Could that be their cache?

2bagamer

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#389882 9-Oct-2010 15:06

No idea but its only when i dwl off BitComet people, I myself have Utorrent.

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#389886 9-Oct-2010 15:20

It will be the torrent cache, it appears just like a user. You'll also notice that the seeder never has 100%.

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#390641 11-Oct-2010 20:50

Yeah, thats the cache, the only time I see acceptble speeds is off it, and its very rare that it connects.

Even with utorrent set to no encryption, DHT on and not using a tunnel to connect to the tracker it doesnt connect in.

Something occured to me today is that how would the cache know which port to connect in on, since I have several ports being used by torrenting it would have no idea which one was the one wanting the file it was connecting with, so I will close all but one utorrent tonight and see how it goes over free offpeak with just my tv shows on public trackers trying to download.

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#390648 11-Oct-2010 21:07

The best way to get access to torrents on the slingshot cache is it use http://www.vuze.com/ with the plugin called ONO and have a whitelist with just Slingshot in it.
That's a whitelist file with 119.224.0.0/17

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#390651 11-Oct-2010 21:11

not that keen on going back to vuse. they working on a utorrent version?

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#390698 11-Oct-2010 23:14

Not sure is there will be an ONO for uTorrent, its app ability is too new for that.

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#390706 11-Oct-2010 23:35

richms:

Even with utorrent set to no encryption, DHT on and not using a tunnel to connect to the tracker it doesnt connect in.

I always use encryption and DHT only. No Peer exchange or torrent files.

I was seeing slow torrent speeds from 5 different routers.....(3xDLink, 1xLinksys "toilet seat" thing, 1xTP Link)....and then I bought a Netcomm "NB6Plus4Wn"....and my network now runs *much* faster. Everything. I'm on a different ISP....but it looks like the hardware you buy can make a big difference. I wouldn't have believed it until I saw it myself.

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