Azureus or uTorrent?

[neliz]

Used to have a cisco 824, but I finally got a free ADSL WIC so I got my 3600 going.. but.. it's all out of the league of SoHo users..

 

[Rainbow Man]

Just curious... what routers are you guys using?

DLink Di-604.

People say it's crap but it was cheap. (Hey.. Maybe there's a conneciton? NAAH! Impossible! )

It works well enough for me. They say fancy-pants "quality of service" is the thng to have in routers these days but I say if we didn't have it in the 80s we don't need oit now!
There's a new cheap DLink router/wifi AP/switch that has QoS. I've been eyeing that thing to replace the jumble of boxes and wall warts that sit here on my desk.
Peace.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Netgear WGR614 v6, works faboo for such a cheap router.

 

[Razor1]

any one try the new ASUS router? The one with the built in hard drive, I can't get it locally, so have to get on the inet, and not sure if I should, its alot of money and not sure if its that good.

 

[pascal]

I use have the wrt54g v5 which use vxworks, not linux as the OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G

As shipped, the Linksys firmware on pre-v5 routers crashes under heavy peer-to-peer network traffic, such as BitTorrent, eMule or other P2P software. The reason for this crash is that Linux's connection tracking by default keeps track of old connections for five days. This five day limit quickly overwhelms the router's internal memory when there are a high number of network connections, and can only be resolved by power cycling the router. For a detailed tutorial on how to permanently fix this issue, see the uTorrent FAQ. Briefly, it involves installing a 3rd party firmware that alows setting the timeout to lower levels, which drops inactive connections and prevents the crashes.

 

[BRiT]

Dealing with Usenet is a different kettle of fish. Storage requirements can be massive, usually involving databases. Filtering and data manipulation tools need to be an order of magnitude more complex. Automation is usually a lot more necessary too. There's just a whole lot more functionality required to deal with all the data sensibly.

I don't think you're ever going to get something as small and focussed as uTorrent for dealing with Usenet.

Sorry for the late response, but I figured others would be interested in the findings.

I found the uTorrent equivalent of Usenet: AltBinz (see my post about it over here).

 

[vazel]

I use have the wrt54g v5 which use vxworks, not linux as the OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G

You can put the Linux based Micro DD-WRT firmware on it. Although I've never had stability issues with the VxWorks stock firmware. DD-WRT is better with QoS though if you use that.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

You can put the Linux based Micro DD-WRT firmware on it. Although I've never had stability issues with the VxWorks stock firmware. DD-WRT is better with QoS though if you use that.

IIRC, you lose the GUI if you install micro, and have to configure everything via the command line. Even the DD-WRT people call these v5/6 deliberately crippled, and recommend you sell it and buy another make.

Since Cisco took over Linksys, they've been downspeccing their low end routers in order not to cannibalise the sales of their more expensive business routers. Even the GL versions (still Linux based) seems to have lower hardware performance than the pre-Cisco hardware.

If you're wanting to run any of the various open source WRT replacements, you're probably better off buying one of the cheap, but fully compatible models that still have a recent spec. The DD-WRT guys are recommending the Buffalo routers, and they are quite cheap and well specced.

 

[stevem]

IIRC, you lose the GUI if you install micro, and have to configure everything via the command line.

This is not correct. The Micro DD-WRT firmware loads via GUI & is fully accessible via the GUI. Some of the additional packages were left out to fit within the 2MB flash. I flashed a colleagues WRT54G v5 a few months back in order to tweak signal output for parabolic reflectors. I achieved >9dB gain @50mW output relative to the standard firmware for the target zone.

 

[repi]

Just curious... what routers are you guys using?

I'm using a Netgear WNR854T router which is a really good router, 5-port gigabit switch and Wifi-router. Took me quite a while to find a fully featured router that could handle a saturated 100mbit line as well as the dedicated IPCop computer I used before. Highly recommended.

And for the topic question: uTorrent without a doubt, so much leaner and faster.

Prefer the DC protocol tough, esp. with fulDC. But that is a whole other topic.

 

[pascal]

You can put the Linux based Micro DD-WRT firmware on it. Although I've never had stability issues with the VxWorks stock firmware. DD-WRT is better with QoS though if you use that.

Thanks for the info. The router is stable with the latest VxWorks firmware. Maybe I will try LInux in the future just to see how it works.