It’s true; all the hardware advances have been eaten up by bloated, inefficient code. The worst is Windoze itself, and the Linux camp is falling over itself trying to out-bloat M$.

I’ve got a Pentium 100 box with Windows 3.1 installed, and zillions of games and such. You’ve never seen anything so fast. Windows takes 6 seconds to start after typing “win”.

Not only is Azureus a resource hog, but Bittorrent, regardless of what client you use, is a shameful bandwidth hog, with far more overhead than any other p2p protocol. That’s why I use eMule, which can be slower, but has less overhead than any other. Sometimes I even still use WinMX. (Yes, it still works, but it’s gone pretty feral.)

What would be a lot better than throttling would be a drivel detector which, if properly used, could eliminate 90% of bittorrent traffic which is mindless, fatuous crap.

Sounds like someone didn’t bother READING how to properly configure the application for his system.

Additionally expecting NEW software on OLD hardware to function as well as NEW software on NEW hardware is patently irrational. Upgrade your hardware or continue using OLD software.

azu resouces
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4719/azufinekj5.png

vs

firefox resources
http://i32.tinypic.com/w18plf.png

Azu, even Vuze, is delightful when properly CONFIGURED. it can even be configured to look oldschool:

http://i26.tinypic.com/2is8v0m.png

Plus I don’t have to tolerate crap clients or barely-sharing peers with azu. microTorrent only has IPA banning.

Failing to allow you to use what’s yours is a breach of contract.

When I pay for 20 mb/s I expect to be able to use 20 mb/s 24/7. If they don’t want anyone using 20 mb/s they shouldn’t offer it as an option.

I don’t give a rat’s a$$ how my usage of network resources affects anyone else on the network. MY contract is with the ISP, not with network members.

It’s up to the ISP to construct a network capable of servicing all network members, otherwise they’re also guilty of another kind of fraud.