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Feel free to try out BeeHive, the brand new bittorrent client with MUI GUI. It's quite premature yet, but since I think other people might like to try it, here you go. And don't hesitate to give feedback.

hi!

thank you very much! been waiting for this since ages:)))
i really like the name and the beautiful (as usual) jobbo icons:)

it is currenty dl-ing, so i can tell it is working:)
i've tried 3 torrents with it but only one has started dling... all the torrents are working 100%, i've checked them with utorrent.

one more thing: in the preferences there are the port range boxes. dunno if its a bug or a feature but i could tpye only 4 digits into them. my router was set to 32459 as the torrent port which i was unable to enter in beehive. so i've set up another open port to 2111 just for beehive. can it be changed?

anyway thx for this once again!
you're a hero!
hope v1.0 will be as goood as utorrent or something like that:)

Multiple downloads works just fine, I have personally tested this for a few times. Sure there are not just timeouts or different ips on the other .torrents you are using?

Oh, about that port-number limit.. I was sure I reported it.. but it may be that I have forgotten about it. Will be fixed.

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there wasnt multiple dls, as i started 1 torrent at once. wait for some time to sart dl, when it hasnt, then tried the next one.

the same torrents worked at the same time on utorrent/w*nxp (dunno whatya means different ips btw:)

anyway beehive has finished its first succesfull download perfectly (i guess, hasnt started the files yet...).

bout the port nr. limit, good to know its just a bug:)
then you must to know that the prefs window wont close after pressing use or save (well, its better this way for the save i guess), you have to close it manually.

and the file-requester icon doesnt work at the default download location bar, dunno its a bug in my system or its beehive's (snoopium tells me that beehive failed to read a file, Imaz/drawer.mim, maybe its connected?)

by the way, can we suggest/request features also?:)

Works great here, many thanks for this Software.
Could you do a nice Icon for iconyfied state!?!

Very nice looking! I have moved away from torrents and use the news groups now, but I know a lot of people still like torrents! Great work so far. I look forward to the 1.0 release, if this first release is this advanced it should be something to see.

Hmmm, nice app; looks really promising

Works ok here, but it seems that BeeHive tries to get as much cpu cycles as it can get (while downloading); is this normal?

Nope, i have 5-7% cpuload while downloading a file, but when you restart a download BeeHive takes over 90% to check the file, after that it is goin back to 5-7%.

Very appreciated!

I found a bug I think. When I tried to download a file, it complains
that there is not enough space on disk, even though there is. Maybe
it's because the space mod 4GB is not enough (it wasn't).

hmm, cpu usage is normal now (2nd torrent).

suggestion: a way to add another/multiple torrent(s) from the main gui.

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The gui equals pretty much to BitTornados gui, one window per torrent. I think it would require quite a lot of work to add this feature, as nice as it would be.

My favorite torrent client on Windows is ?torrent, i hope that BeeHive will beat it in useability.

Some observations:

Seems that the "Estimated time" sometimes resets to 0 (and stays 0) while dloading.

On occasions the program won't connect to the tracker/start dloading. Quitting the program and running it again sometimes helps.

@hooligan

Shouldn't be that hard should it? I mean, you could still launch seperate BeeHive tasks; only the values would be shown in one window.

Very nice program! Works like a charm.

There maybe a bug in the Estimated time figure. It says 0 time left but the % gauge is at 90 and it is still downloading (like a charm i might add).

One simple - and stupid - question.

When I start BeeHive it asks for a AmiTCP assign. I press deny and it goes on without a problem.

Since I use MOSnet AmiTCP is not really needed. Is there a simple way to get rid of that request permanately?

Ok, thanks for the bug reports and encouragement. Quick comments for most of bugs:

- 4-digit port, fixed
- prefs-window closing, fixed
- default download file requester, actually there's no code attached to it yet, because I was too lazy to learn how to use mui_popasl (I can't use synchronous file requester), let's see...
- 4 gb limit, eta=0, not fixed yet, I have to take a look asap
- amitcp-assign, I have no idea
- iconify-icon, when somebody tells me how to set this

Feature-requests have been acknowledged, and moved in to arbitrary position on the TODO-list.

Guess I should try to make a new bugfixed version relatively soon, but maybe not so many new features... maybe.

I'm suspecting there was something fishy about that torrent which gave
me the suspected 4GB problem. So maybe it was not the fault of
BeeHive.

Anyway, another more serious problem seems to be that this uses a
very, very slow method to do 'sanity check' when resuming a download.
MLDonkey does this 'instantly', I have no idea how long this takes for
BeeHive, because I aborted it after 'too long'. It doesn't really
matter how much easier the GUI is if it will stay this way, I'm
afraid.. maybe you could have a look at how MLDonkey does it.

I think the 4GB problem is a CTorrent-bug, it didn't work with any of my ctorrent versions either. Anyway, don't forget, that MorphOS is not able to write (at the moment) files larger than 2GB. (So let's forget DVD ISO's...)

About fast resume: I think MLDonkey has an own, fairly advanced method to always save which parts of the torrents are downloaded, and I think it would be not so easy to implement in ctorrent too. I think BeeHive is a very easy to use and simple torrent client, which doesn't has this goals.

I promise I will test this very promising stuff in the following days and send you a bug report, if I will have any problems.

Now I can tell only two things:
- It seems it's the first torrent client on MOS which works for me
- When you move it's window, it flickers, the moving is not so smooth - maybe it's because of the gui refreshing??

I have a question:
Is it possible to download individual files from a multifile torrent with this client? With CTorrent you just specify the "-n file_number" argument.

No. (not yet)

Ok

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edit your S:user-startup

and add :

Assign AmiTCP: path_to_your_MOSNet_directory:

for me it is :

Assign AmiTCP: MorphOS:Apps/MOSNet

and u won't have the assign request anymore.



EDIT : works like a charm here by the way, thanks for this great software !

[ Edited by SoundSquare on 2007/2/15 12:22 ]

@AmigaMencer:

I think the executable accepts all of the old ctorrent parameters, so you probably can continue to use the -n parameter.

TIP: You can also use -f option to skip integrity check of a torrent and seed it only. I've already made a seperate menu item for it. ;)


[ Edited by GK_LKA on 2007/2/15 20:04 ]

"and u won't have the assign request anymore."

for me beehive is always asking for an "etc" assign, i dont know if is this for amitcp (always used miami for now). when i cancel on the request its just working fine.