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Today I was introduced to the somewhat funny phenomenon of a bunch of people with almost all of a file, but not the last piece.

I was downloading, and with BitLord you can see the peers -- who you're downloading from. I noticed there were about a dozen peers with 96.7% of the file. I didn't think much of it...until I got to 96.7% and stopped as well. That's when I realized that whomever had the last 3.3% of the file was no longer online, leaving all of us sitting around with a useless bunch of bits.

Funny.

BitLord isn't written in .NET, just regular plain C++. And you should try BitComet first. BitLord looks like fake BitComet, I think it simply stole BitComet GUI.

I do see many BitComet users. You could also try Azureus, the Java application. Lots of settings, plenty of control over each file, and an abundance of information to track what's happening. I've used it daily for most of this year and while using it I have never felt the urge to throw my computer across the room or to bite it, not once.

As mentioned Azureus is really good especially when you add in the RSS plugin which will automatically download "things" following your rules.

Another client I have had good luck with is ABC.

Yep BitLord rocks. Been using it for well over 2 months now and never had any problems with it, the lastest version 1.1 fixed some small stuff too. I have even gone over to using the web browser in the program for surfing at times :p

The biggest problem with torrents is you cannot always do anything with incomplete files ( if it's a movie the part missing may be unwanted credits). Why are formats like .bin, .cue, .rar, etc used? They are no smaller than the original .mpeg, .avi. At least with those you could work with the part of the file you have downloaded. Not totally complaining though. BitTorrent is miles better than Kazaa, Areslite, Winmx, etc

I think Bittorrent downloads the file randomly, so if you only have part of it (even 99.9999% of it), you essentially have none of it. I don't think the download is sequential.

I downloaded and installed Bitlord 1.1 a few days ago........... Am I right to distrust the total download speed? It seems to be far more than the sum of the individual ones (even allowing for the fact it only shows whole Kb/sec)

Hate to keep on.......................but, yes it isn't sequential, so you do have to check which 0.0001% of the file is missing with avi and mpeg downloads but there's still a chance you can use it; and if there's no sample included you can check the quality of the recording before you waste time downloading the whole file if it's poor..

hi, i have been an avid user of bit torrent and i have to say that the best client I have used so far is Azureus. I tried quite a few other clients, but none of them can satisfy as what azureus did. I have not however tried bitlord (i came to know about it while i was here anyway). Will give it a try and see how it goes...

One bad thing about Azureus is that it runs on Java platform. Meaning to say that it takes up more resources than any other bittorrent client.

Cheers :)

I personally feel that Azureus is the best BitTorrent application out there. For better or for worse, it doesn't have the WinXP look and feel because it's written in Java. If you can stand that -- it's rock solid, has tons of statistics, and is the most fully configurable client I've come across.

If still prefer BitLord to Azureus you'd probably be better off with BitTornado, which is updated more frequently and more mainstream.

I'm a new kid on the block when it comes to torrents in general. I downloaded Bitlord a few days ago and at first it seemed great compared to the standard BitTorrent downloader but then my KB/s Dn speed slowed right down to 2 then to 0! But the KB/s Up is up at around 16? Is this because the peer I'm downloading from has a slow connection? Because I'm running ADSL. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

Hi Torrentnewbie..

I have the same problem as you.. I am also running ADSL, with a speed of: UP/DL, 512/1024 kbit/s. But my Bitlord is not running fast at all.. What can I do to speed up my Bitlord download.. My friend has the same ADSL connection, and he uses a Bittornado by Bram Cohen. He normaly has a download rate of 100 - 120 Kb/s.. What can I do to get a great download rate in Bitlord?? Because I would like to keep Bitlord as my torrenttracker, because it has more details as a normaly bittorrent tracker.. Thanks in advance fore your answers!

I am also a newbie when it comes to using torrent downloading programs. I have a broadband 128kbs connection and I have been using BitComet for a few days but I have a rather peculiar problem. While I am busy downloading my PC(laptop) without warning and totally random freezes and I have to restart!

can anyone tell me why this is and if I should use a different programme such as bitlord or azureus?

Kellogs I've got the same problem when I use Azureus. I love the program but i go blue screen randomly (I blue screened the first time I made this reply). I get two errors - 'driver irlq (or something) not less or equal' and 'bad pool caller'. Anyone have any ideas? I had this happen with ABC after months of using it, and after that one time couldn't get the program to restart, even after I reinstalled it, tried an updated version, etc. On another note, I've just installed Bitlord and am giving it a try. So far my download speed averages about 60-70kb and gone up to 100kb, which isn't bad. My upload speed is actually higher than usual (40kb). If I don't crash, then I'll probably stick with the prog. I like that it gives more detailed information on the torrent, and also, though I haven't tried this, it seems you can download only parts of a torrent file, which I don't think I could do on Azureus.

If anyone is using a wireless router for their computer that is running bittorrent, you must forward the ports on the router to your computer. Bittorrent uses certain ports that will be blocked and slowed by the router by default. try portforwarding.com to forward your ports.

I use Azureus, and it is good. I don't really know how good though because it is the only one I've used so far. My problem is that I am at a university and I don't have access to the router. This means that I download at about 1 Kb/s. Yup, That sucks. I know other people with other clients and they have the same problem.

i use azures and until very recently its been going great, now im gettnig warning and error messages every 2 minuets they read

Warning UPnP mapping Incomping peer data port TCP/21 has been reserved by || pleas eselcect a different port

Error UpnP: Mapping 'Distributed DB (UDP/80)' failed

Error UpnP mapping 'incoming peer data port TCP/80 failed

ive tried using ports 80, 21, and all ports from 6881-6889 does anyone know whats wrong ? also the torrent files dont download near as fast as they did before

Where can I download Bitlord? the Bitlord website is down..

Yeah, where can we download bitlord? The site is not working...