RE: using utorrent

What is the scrape torrent site?

Also, the bittorrent news groups I mentioned would be a good place to
ask about UTorrent verses ABC.  My impression, although it's only an
impression, is that UTorrent is much preferred, and one reason is that
ABC is no longer being maintained, while UTorrent has a couple of
updates a year, which are automatically applied via it's automatic
update feature.

One reason for it "slowing down the computer" is that, according to
those who've educated me on this, it pulls down data at a much higher
rate than ABC.  At least, it has the potential to do so.  Here's the tip
I read when someone else had the same complaint:  there are settings for
utorrent that allow you to control the maximum amount of bandwidth it's
to use for downloading, and for seeding (or uploading to others).  You
should use these settings to decrease how much utorrent is doing in the
background, until you reach a level that's tollerable to you.

These settings even have a scheduling feature so that you can set them
down low during the day, and back up to high at night after you've gone
to bed.

Or, if you prefer, you can use the systray icon for utorrent and
right-click it for it's context menus, there are choices for pausing
torrents if you need to do something intensive for awhile, and for
resuming torrents when you're done.

hth,

Chip






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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:05 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: using utorrent
> 
> I search via the scrape torrent site and have great results 
> with that since 
> it checks a bunch of other sites. I quit using utorrent 
> though in favor of 
> ABC a couple years ago because utorrent seemed to slow the 
> computer down 
> after a while and ABC seems to have a much bigger success 
> rate with the 
> downloads, faster too.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:58 AM
> Subject: RE: using utorrent
> 
> 
> Others will want to know this, so I'll answer here.
> 
> UTorrent itself has a search box where you can type in keywords and it
> will search one particular torrent-serving web site for you, and throw
> you to a web page from that web site.  That web site will 
> link you to a
> second if your search doesn't turn up what you were looking for.
> 
> You are free however to go searching for torrent web site 
> which you can
> join and search yourself (I joined demonoid.com, but it, like 
> many, has
> a membership limit).
> 
> Google will also help you search for torrents by adding the term
> "filetype:torrent" (without the quotes) to your search.
> 
> Whether a particular site has it's torrents categorized or not depends
> upon that site.  Most do, so you could specify audio books or 
> movies or
> whatever.
> 
> There are many usenet news groups dedicated to bittorrents, 
> so you might
> go out there with outlook express or whatever and start 
> reading in order
> to pickup tips on which are the best torrent tracking sites.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Chip
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Chip Orange
> Database Administrator
> Florida Public Service Commission
> 
> Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (850) 413-6314
> 
>  (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Liz Wade
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:04 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: using utorrent
> 
> 
> 
> Hi List:
> 
> 
> 
> Someone I believe on this list answered a question about music
> sharing programmes and suggested utorrent.  I downloaded and installed
> it but am a little confused as to how to search for specific formats
> e.g. movies specifically in MPG etc.  I don't know who it was 
> but if you
> or anyone is able to help please reply off list if you prefer not to
> reply on list.  My email address is ewade@xxxxxxxxxx  Thankjs in
> advance.
> 
> 
> 
> Sincerely, Liz Wade
> 
> 
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