Topic: anybody upgarde to BT 4.4.0 yet?

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

okay.I am really addicted to this how d/l thing and have hit a snag and am starting
to get the DT's now

so 2 days ago I was finishing up a moe. torrent and when I went to close my BT box
it said a newer version than my 4.2.2 was available so I d/l'd it and did the setup and
my norton antivirus went crazy and when I tried to "okay" the intruder since it was the
new bt program it wouldn't do anything and the windopw kept poping up and wouldn't
go away so I fixed it and moved on but to nothing.

when I click a torrent the window for the folder will pop up but no new folder shows up
on my desktop and then when the bt window opens it's blank and nothing ever happens.
i've taken the new version off,system restore and still nothing. my firewall is off so I know that's
not the problem and according to the cable company I'm not capped and besides it's a new
month

[db]

okay.I am really addicted to this how d/l thing and have hit a snag and am starting
to get the DT's now

so 2 days ago I was finishing up a moe. torrent and when I went to close my BT box
it said a newer version than my 4.2.2 was available so I d/l'd it and did the setup and
my norton antivirus went crazy and when I tried to "okay" the intruder since it was the
new bt program it wouldn't do anything and the windopw kept poping up and wouldn't
go away so I fixed it and moved on but to nothing.

when I click a torrent the window for the folder will pop up but no new folder shows up
on my desktop and then when the bt window opens it's blank and nothing ever happens.
i've taken the new version off,system restore and still nothing. my firewall is off so I know that's
not the problem and according to the cable company I'm not capped and besides it's a new
month

i am not able to follow the problem. try installing a different client? like this one:

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

nice frog too.

[bconnolly]

People use the vanilla client?  Really?

Get BitComet or uTorrent.

[OFOTD]

Bram Cohen created a great P2P concept but the client for it he created is terrible.  Try utorrent  www.utorrent.com   your life will be much easier.  The difference between BT 4.4.0 and utorrent is like night and day.  utorrent is REAL easy to understand.  Very short learning curve.

[Ed.]

another vote for utorrent, once you switch you'll wonder why you ever used anything else.

[RRobar]

Bram Cohen created a great P2P concept but the client for it he created is terrible.  Try utorrent  www.utorrent.com   your life will be much easier.  The difference between BT 4.4.0 and utorrent is like night and day.  utorrent is REAL easy to understand.  Very short learning curve.

Hmm, I actually switched back to the official client on my mac as it's just plain simpler to use and not such a resource hog.

[OFOTD]

Bram Cohen created a great P2P concept but the client for it he created is terrible.  Try utorrent  www.utorrent.com   your life will be much easier.  The difference between BT 4.4.0 and utorrent is like night and day.  utorrent is REAL easy to understand.  Very short learning curve.

Hmm, I actually switched back to the official client on my mac as it's just plain simpler to use and not such a resource hog.

The problem with the official client is first its lack of DHT support which more and more is making a huge difference in connections and speeds.  The other problem or maybe issue is that it is real vanilla like mentioned above and does not allow for you to change options to optimize it for your machine.   

But then again if you're happy with it then that 90% of the battle.   

[John Kelly]

Bram Cohen created a great P2P concept but the client for it he created is terrible.  Try utorrent  www.utorrent.com   your life will be much easier.  The difference between BT 4.4.0 and utorrent is like night and day.  utorrent is REAL easy to understand.  Very short learning curve.

Hmm, I actually switched back to the official client on my mac as it's just plain simpler to use and not such a resource hog.

http://transmission.m0k.org/

The nightly builds are nice, but often unstable.  I get much better speeds with Transmission than the official client.

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

well,official client is the simplest in my book and thats what sells me since I'm a simpleton
when it comes to computers   I tried utorrent and was like what the hell 

bt client now has 4.4.1 and seems to be running just fine on my system so it must
have been something wrong with the update  as far as speeds I was pulling like
291 kb/s and just blazing through torrents which amazed me considering I have the
cheap package through charter,lets see how it goes now