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******* Vuze...

The old version I have on a an old computer still works fine. I use it with bitsnoop and Kickass torrents.

I installed the latest version on a new computer recently and it decided - despite me ticking boxes to the contrary - to install a toolbar an I suspect pollute my computer with some kind of re-direct / popup virus that given my neanderthal computer skill, seems impossible to remove. Even after I uninstalled vuze itself and tracked down the files associated with it, it still persists.

Oh well, If that's my comeuppance for robbing artists and pornographers of royalties, sa la vei.
 
I don't use Vuze but I suspect it might just be an add-on/plug-in/extension in your browser. You tried having a look in there to disable/uninstall?
 
Deluge or Transmission.

All of the power, none of the crapware.

Deluge if you're running Windows.

Most NAS' can run Transmission either natively or as a package, so you can torrent to your heart's content without needing to have your power-hungry PC switched on.
 
u torrent on the windows machines and transmission on the macs

torrents are hard to track but not impossible when you download close to 700 -900 gb a month lol they do tend to send warning letters :)

but with 32tb of storage gotta fill it some how :)
 
bum said:
I don't use Vuze but I suspect it might just be an add-on/plug-in/extension in your browser. You tried having a look in there to disable/uninstall?
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Even uninstalled the browsers, IE, chrome and Firefox including all my personal data. Same ****. It was something associated with Baybalon I, which seems to be a tricky one to get rid of by all accounts.

I have no sentimentality for vuze, so if you can recommend provider, I'm all ears.
 
Transmission (discussed above) is packaged with my operating system of choice so I just use that.

I'm not what you'd call a "power-user" though. Looks like lots of good advice in this thread so far.
 
Ive noticed with the latest vuse version that u cant dictate where the downloads are stired or which files u can share (unless ive missed that somewhere). Which to me seems crap as I want to be able to dictate where stuff goes so I dont have to copy paste and I also wwnt to determine what to share. Anyways

May give deluge a go
 
citymorgue2 said:
15 min?!! jeeez im sure it took longer than that for most torrents he's been downloading. i wonder if its the download client or the torrent source. id say torrent source. remind me, where does utorrent get its torrents? or is it a downloader client and torrent source?
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Generally if its something popular like a recent episode of top gear for example, Ill have it in about 5-10mins and yeah a little exageration, a film probably 20 minutes but not much longer. Im lucky to be in an area where I can get that Telstra 4 or whatever it is. Its super dam quick though. And for the record although the sites kind of gay, its really user friendly and legitimate as long as you know how to use torrents, check it out http://kat.ph/
Cheers
 
Yeah from exp your right u just have to wait for people to be seeding and older stuff is less seeded. All good.

Mind u the playback atm is shocking. Its like streaming directly from net. Will fix that.
 
i can get most popular TV shows within 15 minutes as well and Im on ADSl1. But Im connected to a rim and only 500 metres from the rim so get very good download speeds. Like living that far from the actual exchange. I was cursing when I found out I was on a rim and could only get adsl1 but not anymore.
 
Truman said:
i can get most popular TV shows within 15 minutes as well and Im on ADSl1. But Im connected to a rim and only 500 metres from the rim so get very good download speeds. Like living that far from the actual exchange. I was cursing when I found out I was on a rim and could only get adsl1 but not anymore.
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My last house i lived about 500m from the exchange with ADSL2 - was freaking awsome. My new place, i think i'm the last house from exchanges in both directions so even though its ADSL2, it sucks ass.
 
citymorgue2 said:
Yeah from exp your right u just have to wait for people to be seeding and older stuff is less seeded. All good.
Mind u the playback atm is shocking. Its like streaming directly from net. Will fix that.
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Once torrents are seeding the cable connection cranks through.

Tried a new media player (VLC) and its was better but still not perfect, which means the laptop isnt up to it so a media centre is required. WDTV Live. Good cheap unit. Only the fkr wgo sold it to me led me to beleive that their was a hdmi cable incl. There isnt. And to top it off my tv only has 2 hdmi cable outlets which the dvr and dvd player are hooked up to. Talk about PITA. Now im going to bhave to pull out the hdmi connected to the dvd player every time I want to use the media player. And im short a fkn ethernet cable to connect the player to the modem. PITA all round.
 
citymorgue2 said:
Tried a new media player (VLC) and its was better but still not perfect, which means the laptop isnt up to it so a media centre is required. WDTV Live. Good cheap unit. Only the fkr wgo sold it to me led me to beleive that their was a hdmi cable incl. There isnt. And to top it off my tv only has 2 hdmi cable outlets which the dvr and dvd player are hooked up to. Talk about PITA. Now im going to bhave to pull out the hdmi connected to the dvd player every time I want to use the media player. And im short a fkn ethernet cable to connect the player to the modem. PITA all round.
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http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/64618-first-world-problems-thread/

:lol:
 
citymorgue2 said:
Once torrents are seeding the cable connection cranks through.

Tried a new media player (VLC) and its was better but still not perfect, which means the laptop isnt up to it so a media centre is required. WDTV Live. Good cheap unit. Only the fkr wgo sold it to me led me to beleive that their was a hdmi cable incl. There isnt. And to top it off my tv only has 2 hdmi cable outlets which the dvr and dvd player are hooked up to. Talk about PITA. Now im going to bhave to pull out the hdmi connected to the dvd player every time I want to use the media player. And im short a fkn ethernet cable to connect the player to the modem. PITA all round.
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VLC player is good and plays most codecs no problem maybe your computer CPU is too slow to give a smooth playback.

If you need a HDMI splitter you can get them from herehttp://www.ezyhd-cables.com.au/hdmi-switcher.html

I also use the KM Player which is freeware and works quite nicely.
 
I use Deluge.

It doesnt have the annoying and gratuitous advertising that utorrent does.

Edit, i also use Torrentday as tracker. I have a couple of invites too.;)
 
Deluge. Released under GNU3, and something that I could quickly and easily grab when using Linux or Windows. Though Transmission is the default in Ubuntu/Mint and I can get in Windows, I've not really switched my Windows machines over.
 

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