Must have been your choice of client. Mine had a very clear folder in Program Files, and a very clear entry in Add/Remove programs. I got the one linked at the main site by the original author of BitTorrent.

I did notice that it didn't prompt me for an installation folder. But it went where I expected it to go.

To anyone who's been using Shareaza for a while, I have some questions.

1) have you found any way to limit upload bandwidth? no matter what I set the number at in the settings dialog, I get the same amount. I was originally going to set it at about 10KB/s, due to my next question, but the speed kept at upwards of 30KB/s (and yes, I mean KB, not Kb).

2) does it slow down your connection too? When I have the program open, I cannot do anything else on the internet, lest I endure a sub 56K modem-like experience. It's terrible. This is despite the fact that I have yet to have my total download badwidth load get higher than 15KB/s.

3) so far I have been very happy with the program, but I am not happy with the stability of its connections. I don't see how a filesharing network can persist when the best you can do as far as connections go is to have tiny bursts of 3 seconds at >1KB/s for one user. As an uploader, I'd much rather have three or four people connected to me at 4 or 3KB/s for several minutes than have upwards of 40 people connecting to me at .3KB/s. It makes it impossible for large, 300MB+ files to get downloaded.

With that said, I have a request. Would someone who has a lot of X Files episodes on their PC mind giving me my one favorite episode of all time? It's titeled "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" from Season 3. The one with Peter Boyle.

Thanks for any help (or episode) I can get

ps-my second and third favorite eps are "Redrum" and "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas," respectively. I don't need those, though. They're on my Tivo. I've had X Files on my season pass for a year and my favorite episode never gets aired, despite several emails to SciFi, TNT, and whoever else airs it. Has anyone else noticed how syndication means that they'll take a show with several hundred episodes and replay the same 50 over and over? Grr.

I suppose getting the DVDs is right out?

(Yes, I have the DVDs, and in another 6 weeks I'll be getting season 8 to go along with the first 7)

I would do that, but I'm not in the position at the moment to start buying box sets. Plus I really just want one episode from the whole series

does it slow down your connection too?

This is due to modern broadband connections having much slower upstream connections then downstream. If you flood the upstream, the acknowledgment packets have a hard time getting out quickly, thus the downstream slows to a crawl.

This is why I would love to get off a cable modem connection. Sitting on a T1 with noone else about a month ago was amazing. It responded much quicker then my cable modem.

Hmm. Well, this would be another reason to figure out how to tell the program to limit the upload stream. It seems as if this is not possible, even with an option to do so. This may be due to the bittorrent downloads I have going, though. Perhaps the limit does not apply to them?

I'd hate to become a leech and cut off all sharing completely, but if the program doesn't offer a way to control this type of thing, I might have to do just that.

Would someone who has a lot of X Files episodes on their PC mind giving me ... "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". [M]y favorite episode never gets aired, despite several emails to SciFi, TNT, and whoever else airs it.

Perhaps you should call the Amazing Yappi.

dignan17, i noticed the same things. mediocre consistency and no upload cap. over the past few days ive uploaded more than ive downloaded!
ive tried killing the uploads that do exist but it doesnt seem to do anything to the upload speed.

my only gripe about bittorrent is that it will get to 99.99% of a 1.4 gig file and sit there for days failing hash checks. gets annoying.

Perhaps you should call the Amazing Yappi.

lol

Was he related to the Stupendous Yappi?

Dammit. I knew that sounded wrong.