BitPump v0.902 BETA

[Ken]

THE HANDY DANDY ANALOGX BITPUMP

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Thanks for taking the time to test this beta version of AnalogX BitPump, a

lightweight, low-dependency, fast BitTorrent client for Windows. The beta

version is set to expire in a few months, but the release version should be

out long before than unless somethings really major comes up.

All of the core functionality of the program should be operational, including

all the settings from the config. It shouldn't have any problems downloading

Torrent files that any of the other clients can - so if you encounter any

problems, please contact me.

There shouldn't be anything major you can do to foul things up - in the config

you can always hit 'Reset' to bring it back to the install defaults if it's

acting crazy. In most cases all you'll probably ever be doing is clicking

on .torrent links inside your browser and downloading, and that's about it.

One note on the availability display; here's how to interpret what it is

showing. Since all torrent downloads are sliced up into pieces, each line

in the availability display translates to one (or more) piece of the file.

If the piece is red, that means that the particular piece is not currently

available from any of the peers you're connected to. Normally this is no

big deal, since you're constantly connecting to new peers, sooner or later

you should find someone who has it. The color yellow indicates that a

particular piece is only available from one source - if the Retrieval

method in the Peer config is set to scarcity, then it will try to get these

uncommon pieces first. Next it will show a shade of blue - dark blue

means there are less peers sharing a piece all the way to light blue which

means a piece is readily available. Finally, green indicates that you have

successfully downloaded and verified that particular piece of the file.

If you encounter any problems (ie; bugs), please do the following:

1. In the directory where BitPump is installed in, you'll find a file

called 'debug.log', this file contains debug information to help

me get a better idea of what was happening when the problem occurred.

This file gets overwritten every time BitPump runs, so make sure to

zip it up and send it to me before you run the program again.

2. If the problem was with a particular torrent file, include the torrent

(if possible) with the debug.log in the zip file.

3. Shoot me an email at:

[email protected]

***THIS EMAIL ADDRESS WILL ONLY BE VALID DURING TESTING***

and attach the zip file you just made. In the message, also give me

the details about what you expected to happen, what really happened,

and any other information that might be of use.

If you have any suggestions for improvements, shoot them to the same email

address listed above. Right now top of this list is UPNP support, the

new trackerless extension, and UDP support - so don't bother asking for those,

they're already on the top of the list :)

Also, please don't redistribute this anywhere (ie; post it on other sites, etc),

I'm trying to keep the beta as low key as possible, so if you have a friend

that's a super torrent user, by all means give him a copy, but just don't submit

it to snapfiles.com or anything like that! :) I would also like to thank

everyone at Steve Gibson's ThinkTank newsgroup that helped test and improve the

first version of the app - your suggestions and testing was invaluable!

Thanks again for checking out the program!

-Mark

http://www.analogx.com/

Homepage

[KiwiCoromandel]

not too bad..connection to peers immediately...fast....clean...worth watching.....i d/lded the latest beta..... :) :)

[KiwiCoromandel]

i have been using this all night..its pretty damn good.....i could use this one permanently.......good stuff so far..... :) :)

[Malicious Intent]

Could do with a way to change the listening port and upload/download limiter. Bit messy too.

I'll reserve full judgement once it is out of Beta though.

[Ken]

Yeah, don't get too into it just yet.

In the next week or so, major improvements are due.

It's still very early BETAish. The author seems quite reserved about people using it.

At times, it almost seems like he didn't even wan't to publicly release it just yet.

[rainbowdemon]

Got a file downloading now. Thge d/l is kind of slow, but the u/l is going like a bat out of hell!!

[Ken]

Got a file downloading now. Thge d/l is kind of slow, but the u/l is going like a bat out of hell!!

That's not uncommon for BitTorrent.

Your download speed will increase.

I wan't to stress this to everyone:

Don't bother evaluating this program's worth yet. You're not seeing an even partially finished product here.

Also, don't bother evaluating BitTorrent performance based on the use of this client.

You'll end up misleading yourself.

[Ken]

This version has been updated, but as far as I can tell, the version number is still exactly the same (and buried in the debug.log file when the program is installed).

Also, be aware that BitPump takes over the Torrent file association without prompting or warning the user.