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#1115344 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2009-04-08 02:06:36 (4 years ago) - [Report]
Found the bittorrent faq I wrote 5 years ago when TorrentBits and Suprnova were the places to be. It is 18 pages long (what was I thinking..), is written to a mate, and contains a number of pix..
# I recommend a number of clients besides the original one, but my favourite seems to be BitComet.
# the most popular clients at the time, I write, are: Azereus, BitTornado, Burst!, ABC (Another BitTorrent Client), BitComet.
# I describe Azereus as a resource-hog.
# Check out an early version of BitComet (what I recommend for first-time use).
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# I recommend setting his upload speed to 80% of his max, because, I argue, he will also be sending infomation to others and this will ease transfer between clients. I call this a smart trick...
# After explaining him about opening ports, yada-yada, I talk about sites for warez and I get to the infamous Suprnova site.
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# I call Suprnova the absolute most popular Warez provider.
# Its the oldest site, I say, that has been there from the beginning almost and has at least 1 million hits a day...
# It used to have its own tracker, but now it just a site which lists torrents from all sorts of public trackers, so to avoid anti-piracy groups.
# because of this I advice my mate not to download any Danish products..
# notice the tracker info below (good ol' oink.. had problems with public trackers back then, I guess):
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# lastly I talk about public sites, such as Suprnova vs. private sites, such as TorrentBits
# I quickly mention that TorrentBits have forced seeding, meaning that if you never seed anything back you will eventually get banned
# I reveal to him that on public trackers I only give back a little
# but on private trackers I try my best to seed back to at least 1:0
# I add Suprnova first as the best public site getting between 100-400 torrents per day.
# I also add that Suprnova is so popular that there are scam sites outthere claiming payment for Suprnova service.
# Suprnova also has the newest game, I say apparently, but the bad news is that on Suprnova there are more leechers than seeders (including me *cough*).
# I mention Doom 3 as an example: when it came out it had 1 seeder and 50.000 leechers!!
# Then I mention bt.eastgame.net and filesoup.com .
# Finally there is TorrentBits
# TorrentBits is, I say, has just had its 1-year old birthday. They have specialized in 0day. Max number of registered users are 100.000 and people are banned every day (thank you, Helshad, hehe).
# I mention that the moderators are friendly, but to the point and will give you a warning if you break the rules.
# I mention I got a TWO-WEEK warning once.. and it was for double posting ) Maxthepuppy, if you read this we got serious business you and I...!!
# I also mention filelist.org a, at the time, younger site.
# Lastly I show him some cool pix from TorrentBits:
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#1115346 by I (Power User) at 2009-04-08 02:09:58 (4 years ago) - [Report]
You were interested in torrenting one day It's all about serenity now I think I was always interested about those old days I didn't see, I wish we could start a thread about TB history with only old schoolers posting their memories there
P.S.They warned you I can't believe it, they dare?
Too bad Max
i think i must have joined torrentbits around the same time you created that document (as you said it was around one year in to the site?).
To be honest though I didnt get that involved in torrentbits, just got a few games and movies and made sure to keep a decent ratio.
Now I have a big mouth as well as the above.
I used to use BitTornado and refused to use the clunky Azureus or the more advanced BitComet I certainly remember downloading Doom 3 and then playing it all the way through on a laptop that could only manage 10-15fps on the lowest settings! And yet I thought it was pure awesomeness! haha
I'm trying to think what the first torrent I got from here was..hmmm....I do remember the first ever torrent I downloaded was America's Army (would that be right?) but i dont remember if i got that from tb or a public tracker..
edit: aye i do remember that avatar. I sometimes roamed the forums but i didnt post, so i remember some standout faces like those already mentioned like maxthepuppy..and then i always noticed Green for some reason, and then there was BoB and his mate (though BoB was called ...erm...*think dammit* ..aww its gone) CubeDish, oh and the devil guy who kept getting banned (name began with a 'W')?
I'm trying to think what the first torrent I got from here was..hmmm....I do remember the first ever torrent I downloaded was America's Army (would that be right?) but i dont remember if i got that from tb or a public tracker..
edit: aye i do remember that avatar. I sometimes roamed the forums but i didnt post, so i remember some standout faces like those already mentioned like maxthepuppy..and then i always noticed Green for some reason, and then there was BoB and his mate (though BoB was called ...erm...*think dammit* ..aww its gone) CubeDish, oh and the devil guy who kept getting banned (name began with a 'W')?
edit: was BoB called Rossco or summit like that?
America's Army was free, wasn't it? Wouldn't make any sense to get it of a private tracker then.
And yeah, BoB used to be RossCo. I remember his mate too, but was that really CubeDish? I do remember him having some kind of camel avatar though.
#1115444 by Sharm1 (Kids gone wild :P) at 2009-04-08 09:28:08 (4 years ago) - [Report]
slacker4life wrote:
the good ole days.
torrent bits being the uber shit and owning kids in cod with helshad and redbeard!
i miss the good ol days and especially the almighty RB
#1115453 by ugri (Power User) at 2009-04-08 09:53:35 (4 years ago) - [Report]
Torrentbits. I was a forum stalker and cannonfodder in the cod server
LOL I bargained with the devil himself and won...he disabled my account a long time ago...and I talked him into activating it again
#1115504 by Germs (Paulo DiCanio's Disciple) at 2009-04-08 13:12:53 (4 years ago) - [Report]
I was devastated when TorrentBits disappeared,had to get everything from public trackers and remember games taking 1 - 2 weeks to d/l.Then we got TorrentBytes and I was devestated again cos my acct was gone and it took me 2 or 3 months to get an account
#1115511 by unknown[9089] at 2009-04-08 13:23:50 (4 years ago) - [Report]
damn you were not kidding about the trip down memory lane
My current account is new, but I've had a few up through the years. Not because of leeching but because I have been away for more than the time limit allows and wanted to change nick a couple of times.
Was also one of the very first to Filelist, user no 7, uploader, came from where Filelist came from, which was a much better place. MW. Filelist was quite nice before adds came, and I left and never returned.
#1115529 by Germs (Paulo DiCanio's Disciple) at 2009-04-08 13:53:42 (4 years ago) - [Report]
@ Kuskela : Nah it was defeniteley when Bits became Bytes.The site was down a while and then you had to get an account for the new named site and every time I applied I was told that there were no new accts open atm.
You were only three weeks behind me on signup so it wasn't a couple of months, although I understand how it might've felt that way. Those weeks felt like years to me
I remember signing up to bits though - I had to write a program to hammer signup and warn me when the form popped up instead of the "we're full, blehhhhhhh" message. Ended up scripting it to autocomplete that form too because it still kept missing it.
Does anyone remember the days before high speed internet connections? Warez was a different game back then
omg the spirit of forum bans that guy had the biggest warning ratio of any staffer i've ever seen on any site. :sigh: he could find a violator like he had radar.
#1115544 by Germs (Paulo DiCanio's Disciple) at 2009-04-08 14:05:11 (4 years ago) - [Report]
I remember my mate running a BBS (BulletinBoardSystem) for Amiga wares and having to find £100's to pay his phone bill after the first quarter
#1115545 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2009-04-08 14:05:57 (4 years ago) - [Report]
mysterious wrote:
Helshad
Weee
but I think VBG got it too
I remember playing on the CoD server as well. Was never any good at it and always picked teh wrong weapons for the job.. lol
omg the spirit of forum bans that guy had the biggest warning ratio of any staffer i've ever seen on any site. :sigh: he could find a violator like he had radar.
Yeah, it's good to have idols who we can look up to:
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FROM `deletion_log`
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Does anyone remember the days before high speed internet connections?
I do very well, I sarted with c-64 and 300baud modem, but it did not last very long, after the first phone bill my father force me to sell the modem.
Then in the late 80's and early 90's there were a lot of bbs's in scandinavia,especially in sweden.
Those were the good old days.
The HDD postal rings trumped the BBSes for speed even though you were relying on the royal mail
Receive a HDD in the post, take what you want, add what you have, send it on to the next guy.
There was only so much you could download with even a 56K modem. I remember spending two days downloading a release that was a couple of floppies...
#1115564 by wortz (Power User) at 2009-04-08 14:42:30 (4 years ago) - [Report]
i remember jumping on the french halo 2 leaked release on torrentbits, one of the mostpopular torrents ever i believe. Also remember checking suprnova every couple of hours, loved the horror section..... found crazey mazeys because of them. now theyer gone too
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