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  • Keep the bad guys out

    Do you hate the MPAA / RIAA and other company’s that spy on your download behavior? Are you tired downloading fake chunks of a file? Then it’s probably wise to cover your arse by installing peerguardian or protowall. This will keep (most of the) the bad guys out.

  • Speed up Bitcomet and uTorrent

    In a previous post we advised to raise the maximum amount of half-open tcp connections to speed up your torrents. On itself this is a great trick, however I recently discovered that 90% off all people use the default settings on their client, and that’s a problem.

  • Speed up your torrents

    Help! BitTorrent is slow… This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions I get about BitTorrent. Unfortunately there’s not some kind of magic trick that makes your torrents go through the roof. But you could take some simple steps to optimize your speeds.

  • BitTorrent & Firefox

    Firefox has some great advantages when it comes to browsing and downloading torrents. Of course Firefox is just a browser, but if you use it the right way, your daily bit of torrent will get a lot easier. Let me explain.

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