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Friday, March 03, 2006

Downloading Virtual Machines? Use this BitTorrent Client...

I'm really liking the whole idea of bittorrents. With these large Virtual Machines out there, it makes it a lot easier to deploy a new virtual machines and not worry so much about bandwidth issues. As a windows guy, I have not had much luck figuring out how to start a torrent... I haven't spent much time on it either. But I did find a very cool BitTorrent client that gives nice feedback on how your connection is being used.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/bitpump.htm

I've been using this guys utilities for years. There's some great stuff on his site and his newest is this client. If you enjoy using it, let the guy know. Also, if you enjoy Virtual Machines from here or anywhere else, don't be afraid of being a nice guy and seeding the files for a while after you've downloaded them.

One last thing... If anyone could point me to a place where I can learn how to setup my own torrents, I'd much appreciate it. Keeping in mind that I'm a windows schluck running all windows servers... Thanks!

Posted By: Jim on Friday, March 03, 2006
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3 Comments:

  • You might want to try utorrent

    It is another very nice windows based torrent client.

    By Anonymous Carlo, at March 03, 2006 5:17 PM  

  • Azureus has options for a built-in tracker. If you can't find a public tracker somewhere, you could try that. You're planning on just linking a bunch of vmware OS images? VMWare has a tracker, you should contact them.

    Oh, found links for Azureus info: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/faq.php#17 and http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/HostAndShareYourTorrents

    By Anonymous Duey, at March 04, 2006 7:09 PM  

  • Perhaps you can try TorrentFlux, which install on your web server. That you already have, I assume. TorreltFlux is PHP-based applciation and that also installs easily on IIS. So I hope 1+1=2. :)

    By Blogger Dreams, at March 09, 2006 4:54 AM  

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