Bit Torrent Intolerant

[ottopcx]

I've used LW off & on a few years & to date I can get good download speeds on more than half the movies I find, but I am still unhappy with search results in reference to variety. I’m a pc tech w/ my own repair shop & through the years I’ve been too lazy or busy to figure the bit torrent thing out or perhaps it hasn’t been explained (presented) to me properly. I am not asking what they are or how they work but I was wondering what benefits I may be missing &/or can some one sum up what categories they can improve or not effect. I am mostly having trouble with finding the same movies using wide (un-narrowing) search perimeters. I have been looking for the new ***** movie and cannot get ANY hits yet certain movies several years old keep coming up & I have changed hosts. That I believe is the only aspect of LW & p2p I am disappointed with. My question seems to have evolved into a 2 part-ish question during this communicative transferal process (sorry ‘bout that). Any help or opinions would be greatly appreciated…Thanks

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[Blackhorse 70V]

Limewire uses Gnutella, the largest p-p network. Torrents can be downloaded from anywhere.

I searched for a movie from '68. LW eventually found it after weeks of searches, but I was able to dl only a few MBs before I lost the host. After waiting another week I searched for it on torrent sites; was able to dl it in a few hours.

LW does not comply with protocols required of many torrent sites, (does not track share ratios, etc.), so I suggest you switch to a true torrent client, such as Vuze or uTorrent (both are free).

For more on the subject: Beginners Guide to torrents.

[ottopcx]

TY...It's time for me to stop putting it off & get with the (BT) program

[Sleepless]

The greatest difference is probably that unlike on Gnutella, when downloading a torrent, it's almost always (except MAFIAA planted spam) exactly what the title suggests. On any decent private site it's always exactly what the title says. Oh and maybe I should mention that the known private site confirmed download speed record was something like 184MB/s (On Scenetorrents.org in late 2009 R.I.P )