<p>How's your experience using bittorrent or other p2p file sharing programs at Austin? Is there any tips on how to download safely, or what type of files should I avoid? Any suggestions or past experiences will be really helpful. Thanks =D!</p>
<p>I torrented upwards of 15GB a week. Movies, TV shows, music, etc. It worked fine and is very fast.</p>
<p>^Are somewhat popular sites (demonoid for example) safe to use for the most part?</p>
<p>I’m not condoning anything, but if I was going to torrent, I’d use fully private trackers. Demonoid is a semi-private tracker (even torrents from sites other than Demonoid use Demonoid as one of their trackers).</p>
<p>Can somebody explain this a little further to me? </p>
<p>P2P…from one pc to another correct? Because I get tired of buying off iTunes after a while and wish I had frostwire or whatever the hell its called. I know its illegal, et cetera, but then are there more dangers at UT?</p>
<p>Just how far are we monitored?!</p>
<p>^^Limewire perhaps? </p>
<p>Can someone explain to me about this “tracker” thing? How do we know that it is private or not?</p>
<p>If somebody HAD to invite you, and nobody else can access the website at all, it is private. If some people can view it in a limited manner, and only invited people get full access, it is semiprivate. Otherwise, it’s public.</p>
<p>Here are some examples:
Public: The Pirate Bay, Mininova, all those results you get with Google
Semi-private: Demonoid (the only I can think of)
Private: RevolutionTT, What.cd, several dozen you’ve never heard of, etc.</p>
<p>Private trackers offer the fastest speeds, but have the strictest requirements. You usually have to upload at least as much as you download, sometimes more. Personally on one private tracker I’ve uploaded over twice what I’ve downloaded. I like keeping a really good ratio. There are people on private trackers with dedicated servers that do nothing but seed torrents, called Seed Boxes, this is why private trackers are just so blasted fast. Plus you don’t get stupid people hit-and-running, etc.</p>
<p>One of the other big benefits of a private tracker is the time it takes for a torrent to show up. I’ve seen episodes of popular sitcoms show up in under a minute after the show finishes airing, in full 720p high definition. Try to get that kind of service with public trackers.</p>
<p>How strict are they about downloading music from places like Mediafire/Megaupload/etc.?</p>
<p>^ those are totally direct connections. It is wholly impossible for them to stop you from doing that. It looks like regular HTTP traffic, nothing special on any special ports or anything. That is always ALWAYS the safest bet.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks for the heads up. :)</p>
<p>Remember this above all: NEVER use Limewire/Frostwire/Aries/Kazaa/Anything else like that. They’re full of junk, and they’re monitored heavily by copyright agencies (and probably the government). Using them at home or at UT is just asking for trouble.</p>
<p>^Exactly what he said. Plus they way it works at UT is that if your downloading small amounts of data, you won’t be noticed much. If your downloading large amounts of stuff (I say around 4GB+), your going to get flagged by ITS and then your screwed.</p>
<p>^ No, I’ve downloaded over 15GB in a single day before. My bandwidth resets at 12:01am on Wednesday. If it’s Tuesday night at 11:00pm and I realize that I have 10GB left that week on my bandwidth quota, I will download a ton right before midnight in order to get my maximum usage of that week’s bandwidth.</p>
<p>Also a fun fact, it takes the system about 15 minutes to realize you went over bandwidth. So if you want a really big file, I would start it at 11:50 that night. Even if I only had 2GB of bandwidth left (or even like, 200mb left) I would download a ~4GB file (HD movie) and go over by a few gigs. It wouldn’t notice that I went over by the time midnight struck, and then it just rests anyway. There’s no reverse-rollover where the amount you overused gets taken out of the next week’s or anything like that.</p>
<p>So is there some sort of application that tells you how much bandwidth you have left or do you just have to keep up with it yourself? Just asking - I’m a total internet n00b.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://resnet.utexas.edu/]Resnet[/url”>http://resnet.utexas.edu/]Resnet[/url</a>]</p>
<p>There’s the homepage for ResNet that shows bandwidth, plans, and everything else.</p>
<p>Has anyone here ever used Soulseek? Do you that is safe for downloading music?</p>
<p>So basically, Megaupload and Rapidshare is the safest bet right?? Wow this is a good news =D</p>
<p>So in relation to ResNet, would uploading pictures take away from bandwith?</p>
<p>I am a noob, bear with me. lol</p>
<p>Bandwidth refers to maximum data transfer. Whether you’re transferring data transferred to your computer (download) or from your computer to a server somewhere (upload), it’s still data transfer.</p>
<p>What if I download cracked software from Rapidshare or Mediafire? Will ‘they’ catch me?</p>