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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Are there any fairly easy to use bittorrent packages available for MorpgOS that work well?
    I'm pretty spoiled by the available software under Windows and Linux.
    So far, I've found a few MorphOS packages, but all have involved using MUI during instillation and their speed and reliability leave something to be desired.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    boot_wb
    Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
    From: Kingston upon ...
    I use a combination of MLDonkey via the OWB (web interface), and enqueuetorrent (link to both) for downloading torrent-seeded files (more or less) invisibly.
    It's all that you'd expect of a good client, such as uTorrent, but without the flashy updating graphs, and a bit less polished.

    I have found that the web user interface locks up occasionally (quite possibly some configuration error on my part which I've yet to track down) but it's always possible to ctrl+c via the console to close it down and restart the core.

    It works for me, although I do have to remember to check file sizes so as not to try downloading a 13G B file to an SFS partition.

    [ Edited by boot_wb on 2010/11/11 21:51 ]
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
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    Man once and for all CAN WE PLEASE GET A MODERN BITTORRENT CLIENT WITH GUI? Why is this so hard?
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 423 from 2005/4/9
    From: magyarorszag/h...
    i also use mldonkey and in all its glory its far more useful than utorrent (not to mention polished) and by itself its far more than just a bittorrent client.
    i advise anyone who are not pleased with its web interface to try to activate the advanced gui for it (the green one) asit has all options, progress bar, anything you just want to have from a p2p client (and more:)
    the only problem now i have is the mentioned occasionaly lock ups by the client side (of course traffic stops as well). i've found that if i use access the net with owb while mldonkey is active then its almost certain that it wil lock. if i dont touch owb it will staying alive longer if not to the last:) using other net apps doesnt seem to affect mldonkey, amirc does not for sure and afair nor does ib. i guess the problem is that its interface runs inside owb and somehow they doesnt work well together.
    im still using 2.9.5 duh, maybe newer 3.x releases doesnt have this issue.
    but anyway its really a very nice solution for getting torrents (and/or files from donkey, dc+, etc... networks at the same time!). just be careful with the maximum upload limit, as it cant dl faster than the 4x of the UL, unless its 50kb/s (the maximum) when you can set it as large as you want. i only know this because i had 20kb/s dl speed at max with mldonkey for months when i realized that the upload limit has been set to 5kb/s somehow (not by me for sure! something must have reset it or dunno) therefore DL was 20kb/s at max:) now it flies again.
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