PeerGuardian alternative mirror?

Deadbeat · 27 Oct 2009 at 07:29

The Phoenix Labs' link keeps timing out. Is the Sourceforge one a working issue for Win7 x64? There's no version choices there, so I don't know what to do. I got a torrented version, but it won't load properly. All it does is sit in my system processes eating 88MB RAM.

owains · 27 Oct 2009 at 07:40

Tried PeerBlock?

Deadbeat · 27 Oct 2009 at 08:25

Is it the same thing? It worked fine, but didn't give me the huge block lists I used to get from PG. I'm mainly looking for something to stop BT strangling my P2P transfer speeds.

Qu3 · 27 Oct 2009 at 08:55

owains said:
Tried PeerBlock?

Thanks for the link, been looking for an alternative for PG for ages! Driver crashes pretty much everyday now..

Deadbeat · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:42

So it does the same thing? I should be using PB over PG2? Anyone know if it'll stop BT sucking the life out of my connection for 12 hours every day?

The Mad Rapper · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:50

Deadbeat said:
So it does the same thing? I should be using PB over PG2? Anyone know if it'll stop BT sucking the life out of my connection for 12 hours every day?

I think you're confused.

This software stops people connecting to your PC from certain IP addresses known to belong to the large Media companies etc.

If your torrent d/l is slow on BT then this is because your connection is being 'traffic shaped' or 'port throttled' which is effectively the same thing; BT know what you are doing and are restrciting your bandwidth.

The way to get around it is to use a torrent client like uTorrent and switch the encryption on. That way you should get a much faster d/l because BT will only see encrypted traffic (which could be anything, like a VPN for example), not torrent traffic.

HTH.

Deadbeat · 27 Oct 2009 at 15:23

The Mad Rapper said:
I think you're confused.

This software stops people connecting to your PC from certain IP addresses known to belong to the large Media companies etc.

If your torrent d/l is slow on BT then this is because your connection is being 'traffic shaped' or 'port throttled' which is effectively the same thing; BT know what you are doing and are restrciting your bandwidth.

The way to get around it is to use a torrent client like uTorrent and switch the encryption on. That way you should get a much faster d/l because BT will only see encrypted traffic (which could be anything, like a VPN for example), not torrent traffic.

HTH.

This is a good plan. Will it run with Bitlord or should I just switch to µtorrent? I hate typing it out, because I don't have a µ key on my keyboard, and typing out alt + 230 gets grating.

feriso · 27 Oct 2009 at 15:29

Getting annoyed just because of the name? I just use u instead of µ for that reason.

The Mad Rapper · 27 Oct 2009 at 16:13

Deadbeat said:
This is a good plan. Will it run with Bitlord or should I just switch to µtorrent? I hate typing it out, because I don't have a µ key on my keyboard, and typing out alt + 230 gets grating.

Just switch, then come back and tell me that I was right