16th November 2005, 6:47 AM
Oh that's what this is.
Oh well, won't stop me from butting in.
Yeah, I've used this "bittorrent" before. I hate it. Last thing I tried downloading was a long movie for some game and it took literally a WEEK. Honestly if it wasn't that I really wanted to see that video I would have just cancelled it right there. This whole idea of "seeding" computers with bits of files they all upload to you is very iffy anyway. It depends way too much on what I already know to be an unstable thing, the connections of OTHER people. Play any online game and you'll eventually get that idiot who "puts up" with their own slow connection, not realizing you have to too. Or, in XBLive, you get the idiot that "hacked his 56k with a special program and an ethernet adapter to use XBox live on narrowband". Oh yeah, GREAT JOB GENIUS!
Basically whether or not I even get the file at ALL is subject to the random flowing of the winds. I mean, what motivation do the others even have to "seed" files they recieved? I know the second I got that file, I didn't keep that bittorrent application up and running, I shut it down immediatly due to the strict "only the RAM you need" rule I have in effect on my PC.
I admit I don't know if there are more stable sources or anything like that, and I admit a lack of experience, but every time I've used this application, it has been far FAR slower than any other download I will engage in online. Is this about average expectancy in the P2P realm? I have no issues with P2P as a concept mind you, it's great, but if this is the price, it's time has not yet truly come I'd say.
Anyway, any thoughts on exactly why bittorrent seems to suck so very bad? Oh yes, the application does seem to yell at me for even having a fire wall. I'm... sorry? What do you expect? Do they actually expect me to unlock the door? Now, I'm not exactly wireless secure. I don't see the need. It's nice for people that come over to log right in without having to ask for a WEP key. Plus, I highly doubt there are any hackers physically perched outside my domacile trying to destroy me. However, I've used Blackice as my old Firewall solution (pre-router, router being the best firewall really because it will protect all my devices like my XBox, which sends certain data I want to keep secret), and it let me see exactly how many intrusion attempts it had detected. At first, nothing, but by the time I moved on to a router based fire wall, there were about 5 or so attacks a day. I'm not opening myself up to something like that. I also have some issues even opening a single port. I mean, if I pick the "standard" port, don't the hackers already know exactly what ports popular applications open? Won't that be the most likely hack target?
Oh well, won't stop me from butting in.
Yeah, I've used this "bittorrent" before. I hate it. Last thing I tried downloading was a long movie for some game and it took literally a WEEK. Honestly if it wasn't that I really wanted to see that video I would have just cancelled it right there. This whole idea of "seeding" computers with bits of files they all upload to you is very iffy anyway. It depends way too much on what I already know to be an unstable thing, the connections of OTHER people. Play any online game and you'll eventually get that idiot who "puts up" with their own slow connection, not realizing you have to too. Or, in XBLive, you get the idiot that "hacked his 56k with a special program and an ethernet adapter to use XBox live on narrowband". Oh yeah, GREAT JOB GENIUS!
Basically whether or not I even get the file at ALL is subject to the random flowing of the winds. I mean, what motivation do the others even have to "seed" files they recieved? I know the second I got that file, I didn't keep that bittorrent application up and running, I shut it down immediatly due to the strict "only the RAM you need" rule I have in effect on my PC.
I admit I don't know if there are more stable sources or anything like that, and I admit a lack of experience, but every time I've used this application, it has been far FAR slower than any other download I will engage in online. Is this about average expectancy in the P2P realm? I have no issues with P2P as a concept mind you, it's great, but if this is the price, it's time has not yet truly come I'd say.
Anyway, any thoughts on exactly why bittorrent seems to suck so very bad? Oh yes, the application does seem to yell at me for even having a fire wall. I'm... sorry? What do you expect? Do they actually expect me to unlock the door? Now, I'm not exactly wireless secure. I don't see the need. It's nice for people that come over to log right in without having to ask for a WEP key. Plus, I highly doubt there are any hackers physically perched outside my domacile trying to destroy me. However, I've used Blackice as my old Firewall solution (pre-router, router being the best firewall really because it will protect all my devices like my XBox, which sends certain data I want to keep secret), and it let me see exactly how many intrusion attempts it had detected. At first, nothing, but by the time I moved on to a router based fire wall, there were about 5 or so attacks a day. I'm not opening myself up to something like that. I also have some issues even opening a single port. I mean, if I pick the "standard" port, don't the hackers already know exactly what ports popular applications open? Won't that be the most likely hack target?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)