Calling all Bittorenters (Mainly azureus)

[Osirus]

I have just recently ordered a 1024k line from Telkom (which they claim is now 4096) but I am unsure of the ISP to choose from. I have researched alot through helkom and basically visiting many ISP's websites but I am still unsure whether to go for Shaped or Unshaped. If I want to use the Bittorrent Network extensively, specifically the bittorrent app Azureus (using UDP and TCP/IP), should I go for shaped or unshaped? Is unshaped crucial to using bittorrent? If anybody with experience using shaped/unshaped accounts who bittorrents heavily (5 - 15 GB per month) can give me advice? I ask this simply because you can get higher caps with shaped, but I am unsure whether you actually CAN bittorrent with a shaped account...

I am at a loss at the moment...

P.S Azureus is considered the best Bittorent client by many, check it out at the main site:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
or download site:
http://www.getazureus.com/

 

[PostmanPot]

shaped.

 

[.geek]

Most ADSL users get maximum speeds on their line, when downloading via bittorrent, even with shaped accounts.

 

[squirrel]

Yeah although i'm on 384kbps I get good speeds on torrents. By the way, uTorrent is far superior

 

[Wisemansa]

ya utorrent is tiny and uses much less memory..................get a shaped account dont waste your money on unshaped

edit: on torrents only last month i managed to use 40.936 gb........raped the bandwidth on the last day....im with openweb. 3gig-30gig local-192k openbrowse.

 

[Bondizzo]

I'm using Azerues for my torrents and I'm on 384kbs and I get maximus speed on shaped, also make sure you have your nat setup so you can connect to more peers

 

[CodeMaster]

uTorrent FTW.

@Bondizzo, what speeds are you getting? Since all 192 guys got upgraded, I only ave. about 32Kb/s, whereas I used to ave. about 40Kb/s.