Azureus is annoying me

bledd · 1 Nov 2006 at 12:54

Combat squirrel said:
This is all very odd, using Azureus for ages, never crashes on me, does uTorrent have p2p encryption in it though ?

yes, it has that option

toy_soldier · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:15

uTorrent is slooooow for me, Azureus works best but tends to use a lot of memory. Ive never had any problems with it randomly closing either.

Glaucus · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:18

Solution = unistall it, its bloated, slow at downloads and unstabe. Infact theres nothing good about it.

Install Utorrent or others that are far better.

Dr_Evil · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:25

Does uTorrent:

A. download 1 file from multiple peers at the same time?
B. Support uPnP devices (ADSL Router)
C. Upload/download ratio or download full speed whilst capped upload speeds?

I used to be a DC++ user, now using Azeurus due to ISP p2p throttling, but thinking about moving over to uTorrent.

Is there an easy way to "upgrade" ? (e.g. keep my torrents and partially completed files?)

Spider · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:29

gooner_47 said:
Another uTorrent convert here, was using Azureus but very happy without it

Yep, I was using Azureus until last week (regularly engulfed more than 120MB RAM!) until i gave uTorrent a bash - now it never exceeds 15MB RAM and just seems a lot more stable and reliable.

Very happy convert!

Una · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:34

Dr_Evil said:
Does uTorrent:

A. download 1 file from multiple peers at the same time?
B. Support uPnP devices (ADSL Router)
C. Upload/download ratio or download full speed whilst capped upload speeds?

A. Course it does, thats how distributed p2p works.
B. Yeah.
C. The client does not ratio it no, but other factors will.

Cheekykid · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:35

Azureus is much more sophisticated evidently.
I'll try to re install. If not succeed can i still continue my downloads with another program?

Amp34 · 1 Nov 2006 at 15:16

agw_01 said:
I've found BitLord is faster and I get much better speeds when using it.

It also doesn't use Java so doesn't have the questionable reliability of Azureus.

Yep! Thats what I use, also an excellent choice with vista (what I am doing now) s it works with aero. Its also a tiny file size and just very good.

bledd · 1 Nov 2006 at 15:21

toy_soldier said:
uTorrent is slooooow for me,

not setup correctly then, or using bad torrents

bledd · 1 Nov 2006 at 15:23

Dr_Evil said:
Does uTorrent:

A. download 1 file from multiple peers at the same time?
B. Support uPnP devices (ADSL Router)
C. Upload/download ratio or download full speed whilst capped upload speeds?

D. Is there an easy way to "upgrade" ? (e.g. keep my torrents and partially completed files?)

a. yup
b. yup
c. you can set it up 5up, and have full down -ie, 5up and 1250down (set to unlimited) on my 10mg ntl
d. think you can just set the download directory to wherever az has put them, open the torrent files in utorrent, and it'll check the directory for parts (someone else may verify if this works or doesn't work)

LoadsaMoney · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:34

Dr_Evil said:
Is there an easy way to "upgrade" ? (e.g. keep my torrents and partially completed files?)

Yup easy, just load the torrent back into Utorrent, and send it to the same place, it will pick up from where it left off.

Used to use Azureus here, and loved it, but couldn't game while downloading as it hoggs the CPU usage so i switched to Utorrent, no problems at all with it, download at 230k+ on my 2mb connection.

Randell Floyd · 1 Nov 2006 at 16:37

A lot of Azurues closing down problems are down to memory problems. Try and run a diagnostic on your memeory to see if it yeild any errors.

Tobes · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:01

You using NOD32 as a antivirus program? That's you problem.

toy_soldier · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:07

bledd. said:
not setup correctly then, or using bad torrents

I dont see how when Azureus works fine with the same torrents.

bledd · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:54

toy_soldier said:
I dont see how when Azureus works fine with the same torrents.

just needs the ports forwarding, and windows firewall set to allow utorrent

Vegeta · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:56

Wow I love Azurues and never had any problems with it, but all you guys love utorrent so I may aswell give it a bash.

EDIT: Just trying it, has less options that azureus

, how do you set the number of peers per torrent?

bledd · 2 Nov 2006 at 06:00

in preferences

Vegeta · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:16

bledd. said:
in preferences

Thats all torrents, not each torrent right?

Like some torrents I might want to only connect say 50, others I might want 200.

VeNT · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:23

loving all this Azureus hate.
for me, uTorrent doesn't cut it. I'm fine with Azureus' resource use as its better than uTorrent FACT.

bledd · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:32

Vegeta said:
Thats all torrents, not each torrent right?

Like some torrents I might want to only connect say 50, others I might want 200.

just set it higher in preferences?