2004-06-26, 17:52 | Link #2 | |
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Since the football game is finished now, I should answer your question
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The advantage is that you don't have another process running in the background using up precious system resource or even causing program conflicts. Note that some BT clients offer a built-in PeerGuardian protection through plugins, for instance Azureus but many others as well. Refer to the link in my signature for instructions on how to setup Azureus, if you want to give it a try, that is. Sidenote: Since the tracker will always see your IP, regardless of which you are using PeerGuardian or not, the protection with PeerGuardian is even lower than with "normal" p2p programs. Wow, now that's an exhausting answer, I surprise myself more often than I want me to Oh, and stay away from warez; they are evil and it's rumoured that they bite the n00bs |
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2004-06-26, 19:42 | Link #3 |
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*reads _Sin_'s post* Hmm...i thought he was talking about the different versions but even if he's not...i'll answer the question
right now i'm running version 1.99 pr14 and if i remember correctly this is one of the more stable ones...the older ones before this used up too much resources including cpu usage (although i can't remember if it did or not all to well since i updated to the current version i have only a few days after) and the newer version after this one is an experimental version that they released for reasons i forgot and should only be used if you really want to |
2004-06-26, 19:47 | Link #4 | |
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Plus I thought I avoided that issue - gracefully I might add - by telling him to use The Blocklist Manager |
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2004-06-26, 23:21 | Link #5 | |
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Protowall. Protowall actually consists of two parts, a kernel level driver and an application level interface. It accepts input from the blocklist manager, and is auto-updating. Because the driver runs at the kernel level, it is very fast.("because it's a driver running at the kernel level" is actually pretty redundant, come to think of it ) It can handle hundreds of connections while using minimal CPU and RAM resources. Downside: something in kernel space, when it crashes, is somewhat catastrophic. I have not had an issue with protowall, but this is the price for speed. Another driver just means another driver that could crash. http://bluetack.co.uk/pw.html (their site is down at this very moment however) if you are interested. However I wouldn't recommend any sort of blocklists if you are using Bittorrent: they are all but entirely useless. |
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2004-06-26, 23:44 | Link #6 |
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Thanx for the replies. I read your Azureus guide Sin, so I am going to give that a shot. Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but I'm used to downloading things on my cousins PC (the one who told me about the PG program in the first place) and not giving a rat's ass about what happens since he can usually fix it. Anyways, thanks for the help guys or gals.
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2004-06-26, 23:49 | Link #7 | |
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2004-06-27, 00:31 | Link #9 | |
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_Sin_ - 1...2......3...4..5...6....umm....never mind but if you want a more detailed answer for version difference i suggest you look through their forum...you should find the link under "Help" pull down menu |
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2004-06-27, 15:49 | Link #12 | |
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2004-06-27, 17:27 | Link #13 | |
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