bittorrent peers limited?
January 15, 2006 5:22 AM Subscribe
A Torrent Question: Why, when downloading (anything) using bitcomet can i only connect to peers who are also using the bitcomet client? When i use uTorrent i can connect to many more peers who are using all sorts of clients. I'm obviously going to switch apps, but would love to know the reason for this behaviour. Thanks.
BitComet is a broken client with regards to programming and protocol. It hammers connection attempts on other clients, reports failed packets as successful (inflating your statistics), seems to be preferential towards other BitComet clients, etc. All in all, it's a bad client, both in design and behaviour.
uTorrent is the shit. Spoken from former Azureus turned BitComet turned uTorrent user.
posted by adzm at 6:06 AM on January 15, 2006
uTorrent is the shit. Spoken from former Azureus turned BitComet turned uTorrent user.
posted by adzm at 6:06 AM on January 15, 2006
Response by poster: So all the other clients have now been updated to automatically refuse to connect to bitcomet?
Also, bering, that article refers to private trackers only, and i dont belong to any.
I'll be using uTorrent in the future anyways, was just very curious about this recenly. Thanks.
posted by kev23f at 6:54 AM on January 15, 2006
Also, bering, that article refers to private trackers only, and i dont belong to any.
I'll be using uTorrent in the future anyways, was just very curious about this recenly. Thanks.
posted by kev23f at 6:54 AM on January 15, 2006
No, most clients will still connect to BitComet by default. Azureus has a 'stuffer' plugin that lets you ban them, but most banning is done on private trackers, by the admins of the tracker.
While I believe most people using BitComet are polite 1.0 ratio users, I personally have banned uploading to BitComet when initially seeding files. I used to have to upload almost 2.5 to 3 times the size of the file before it was completely distributed. When blocking BC, uploads were usually 1.5 to 2.0.
However it is trivial to change how a client reports it's identity. There are numerous 'hacked' clients of BitComet, Azureus, etc. which disguise their identity and allow exploitation of the swarm.
posted by adzm at 7:20 AM on January 15, 2006
While I believe most people using BitComet are polite 1.0 ratio users, I personally have banned uploading to BitComet when initially seeding files. I used to have to upload almost 2.5 to 3 times the size of the file before it was completely distributed. When blocking BC, uploads were usually 1.5 to 2.0.
However it is trivial to change how a client reports it's identity. There are numerous 'hacked' clients of BitComet, Azureus, etc. which disguise their identity and allow exploitation of the swarm.
posted by adzm at 7:20 AM on January 15, 2006
imo bitcomet's dht only finds peers that run bitcomet, thus you get an bitcomet incest group of peers, that's the answer
posted by suni at 9:08 AM on January 15, 2006
posted by suni at 9:08 AM on January 15, 2006
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posted by bering at 5:59 AM on January 15, 2006