What do you use for downloading

Obviously it has to be TORRENTS FTP's Suck big time when ur half way thru server goes down.such things dont happen to torrents unless they r very old

am using torrents right now...but i love P2P...there's no headache of maintaining the ratio...just save it and it'll get automatically shared...that's one disadvantage of torrents...otherwise, it rocks!!! 😀

I like ftp the best.

ya i did a lot of music through ftp .... but usually ya do use torrents to download stuff.... usually share ratio is always above .7 for me.. so i dont usually keep it going for long anyways... but sometimes i do . esp music torrents... ..

music torrents are not a problem...small files, won't take much to reach the ratio anyhow...the problem is with the movie files...it take days, sometimes weeks to reach the ratio 1:1

i do music and games.. i always have a 0.7 uploaded .. so i just keep it on for another couple of hours. that`s it.. 😀... only a few times have i realy uploaded like a proper seeder with ratio reaching as high as 1:7 😛 .. but then that has only happend a few times.. and again ya with music downloads.. the unhealthy ones ..

I use wget and curl. Both have "resume" and "retry" features in case your download is terminated for whatever reason. You can set up cron to start/stop download, give an input file in which you stuff the files to be downloaded. 😀

Thou art strange my friend!

Originally posted by coolbuddy_79@Oct 2 2005, 10:28 PM
music torrents are not a problem...small files, won't take much to reach the ratio anyhow...the problem is with the movie files...it take days, sometimes weeks to reach the ratio 1:1
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I need some good torrent sites especially for music downloads.Can yu please name me some 🙂

link-removed.comi got all metal bands discography frm there with many concertsi dunno for pop n hindi.u might get pop there

Yeah, link-removed gives the most accurate search results. But they do block out certain releases if the RIAA or MPAA or the software biggies object. So that's when link-removed.com(weeds out fake releases) and link-removed.com(all the releases are out very fast and no blocking or anything) are helpful. I think in the near future torrents will be all that we guys will have left for free downloads coz even Limewire(which runs on gnutella) is being flooded with fake files by the rec. companies similar to what they did to kazaa. And yeah i never take a chance with FTP's cause most of the time the server goes down in the middle of a download like sanke pointed out. I don't get it why MTNL doesn't let us share stuff via LAN, they'll save a tonne of bandwidth coz ppl d/w the same stuff again and again...and also with all the bogus files floating around..it takes a lot of time searching for the right files..it would be great if we could..setting up a DC++ hub is just too complicated for most.

bitcomet, torrent searcher SA, limewire pro, emule. i shift between them depending on the file i need.

BitComet (dunno wt i'd do without it....although they could improve the interface a bit and do away with the browser), Azureus(sometimes when i gotta queue downloads) Limewire Pro, eDonkey2000(emule's too slow for me).

Originally posted by waterloo_sunset@Oct 6 2005, 05:02 AM
BitComet (dunno wt i'd do without it....although they could improve the interface a bit and do away with the browser), Azureus(sometimes when i gotta queue downloads)  Limewire Pro, eDonkey2000(emule's too slow for me).
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you left out another avenue that i believe only me and muttster` here are using.... newsgroups.

for me bit comet sucks!!! .. i dunno.. just dont get more then 10k kB man.. on game torrents. ya music worksfine. .so i just que up all the music i wanna doo. but games justdont happen.. use bit tornado for bigger files then .and ya always get good speeds. hasnt yet happend to me that i havent got sustained 25kB speeds on bit tornado on any torrent.. but even then i usually do music in Bit tornado itself.. i seem to be the only one who uses Bit tornado here .. lol have done music throught ftp`s.... a lot of it actually from link-removed... heehe.. use ares for single files usually.. any trance links guys.. trance torrents and stuff.. if you can... even ft plinks.