i think its in the first page of preferences, im at work now so im on adiumx.
personally i like tabs

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Added on August 17, 2007, 12:25 pmit allows you to receive encrypted packets from other peers. normally it is enabled. disabling it will make no difference apart from making you use marginally less system resources. actually you should be able to download from more seeders/peers if you have it enabled.
enable= you can receive encrypted and non encrypted packets
forced= you only want to receive encrypted packets
disabled= you only receive non encrypted packets

This post has been edited by praveenmarkandu: Aug 17 2007, 12:25 PM

Well, what I noticed is that the connections that are not throttled are actually not fully encrypted using RC4 .

If you capture the packets using Ethereal, the high speed connections shows that the handshaking portion is encrypted but data transfer is in plain text.
Those that are fully encrypted (handshake + data) gets throttled.

what's the use of firestarter?

i already installed it. after that just press stop firewall? i dont need any firewall on my ubuntu.

does disabling inbound encryption helps gaining the speed?

Demonoid tracker seems to be ok if I use a proxy server for the trackers connection.

This post has been edited by precursor80: Aug 17 2007, 03:24 PM

Yay, got everything installed and my ubuntu is up and running in vmware. BT is like the good ol' days now hehe.

On a side note, linux is way to troublesome for a regular newb like me to be worth a dual-boot.

how u transfer ur file?... using samba sharing?.. maybe u should ask another vmware user.

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Added on August 17, 2007, 3:36 pmlinux is not troublesome.. u will get use to it later.. now maybe u a newbie, but later maybe u will be a pro. Use this chances to learn about linux while u torrenting..

This post has been edited by blackamikaze: Aug 17 2007, 03:36 PM

seems to me your only problem with ubuntu was your vmware itself. if sound and video was okay, i think it would have been much less of a hassle for you to dualboot your ubuntu with your windows

erm, can anyone respond?

firestarter is a firewall. whether you need it its up to you. if you were running a server on linux or remotely accessing files it would be recommended.
you can unistall it if you dont want it, it doesnt do anything for your torrenting if thats what you are asking.
to my knowledge, disabling inbound encryption does nothing to boost speed.

please dont bother with deluge setting, use ktorrent for the best result for torrent...

i tried ktorrent but got error when opening torrent..

do i need to specify port for dht? this port need port-forwarded too?

This post has been edited by mfa333: Aug 17 2007, 08:41 PM

Nah, it's not the sound and video, it's just that terminal thing..headache... lol.

hard to justify your statement. i believe the best way is for people to use whichever client they want and let them decide.


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i dont said deluge cant get high speed, but ktorrent can connect more faster to peer n can connect to more peer. The best thing is, ktorrent dont have such a headeache setting for encryption. So its easy for beginner.. thats all..

So thats why i recommanded ktorrent over deluge coz its easy to most people here.. hope u got my point.

This post has been edited by blackamikaze: Aug 17 2007, 09:37 PM

ubuntu is not for faint-hearted..

after done updating every ubuntu component, i cant boot on both ubuntu kernel 2.6.20.15 and 2.6.20.16.. graphic driver not found. open the recovery menu, i'm blur...

i think maybe some update got corrupted..

what to do now? i dont want to reinstall ubuntu...

I may be having some problems with my connection..First day I installed Deluge, everything worked like a charm.. 70+ kbps dls..But after that, the performance degraded..now i'm able to get about 10-20kbps on certain torrents while the rest are stable at below 10kbps. I tried ktorrent like suggested also but same results. Btw, here are my settings. Anything which I need to change or anything else that i could change? Thx.







p/s: for those running vmware, i did manage to have some success copying files via drag-and-drop after using vmware workstation + vmware tools

This post has been edited by skullz): Aug 18 2007, 12:34 AM

Damn right, I nearly fainted. The dizzy spell continues until today, even after a week of using it. Let's recount the hiccups I get:

- Adept Package Manager fumbles whenever an update package fails to download completely. There are times when you just have to use the console, login as root and manually delete partially downloaded installation file. Thanks to Streamyx, that adds to the problem.

- downloaded some avi's? can't play it out-of-box, have to install some 'restricted' codecs. RMVB? I get video, no audio. Fixed it by manually editing configuration file. My next problem yet to solve, can't play x264 mpeg4 files.

- if you've got a USB external HDD formatted in NTFS, gotta install ntfs support package.

- powering off PC, sometimes can sometimes cannot.

Many more tiny tiny annoying stuff. If not for the speed I get in KTorrent, and the peace of mind of not worrying about malwares, I dunno how I could tolerate.

If u can't boot into the GUI and u'r Xconf is messed up try :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
at the recovery console and try to reset u'r settings. I've tried that a million times last Saturday to get Ubuntu to run at 1920 * 1200 res. These things are supposed to be easy but apparently not. Oh well, at least its working now. If only Ubuntu runs Photoshop CS..then i won't need to boot back into Windows.

i would love to,man
Too bad my ktorrent wouldn't work as great as you mentioned

i keep getting the dreaded "stalled" status,at some point it managed to download a bit,then return to stalled again

how do you install your software? the only things i use would be "Add/Remove", Synaptic Package Manager, and apt-get and deb package files. i've only compiled 1 program which is vlc0.8.6c

all you have to do is figure out how to use the installer. gstreamer good,bad and ugly should do this for you. if not use the synaptic package manager and search for 264 and install that as well. its also good to install mplayer eventhough you dont want to use it.
it literally takes 5 minutes or less to set up ntfs write support using the "add/remove"
im not sure what trouble you are having with shutting down your pc. refer to ubuntuforums.org though im sure people here will help you if we can.

i understand where you are coming from. the most minute things can be a problem and annoy even me. like my side buttons on my mouse not working in firefox, or settingup my grubscreen to boot to what i want but all it takes is some time and google. a lot of it can be found on ubuntuguide.org
but to be honest i think you are being overly critical. maybe its hard to realize it in windows because we are all so used to it, but it doesnt come with h.264,rmvb, mov and tones of other codecs aswell. every OS has their quriks. mac OSx annoys me when you cant force to show hidden files unless you type something in the shell (and thats OSX!)

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Added on August 18, 2007, 2:19 amsupposedly photoshop7 runs perfectly under wine. and cs has been known to work.
but then again i dont really trust wine myself. one of the few reasons i switche back to windows

This post has been edited by praveenmarkandu: Aug 18 2007, 02:25 AM