How many people run PeerGuardian?

I don't know whether the Win7 certified driver issue was solved with PeerGuardian, but PeerBlock is in the same vein and just works much better in my experience... so... yes and no to the +1 of how many people run it :p
 
i should have said I use PeerGuardian in its generic sense
 
I've been using Peeguardian since I received an infringement notice from BAY TSP (more than 1 year ago)
 
i decided to go ahead and setup the linux equivalent - moblock. it was fairly straightforward to install and setup.
 
PeerGuardian 2 is no longer supported, Peerblock is the way to go.
 
Forgive me for being clueless, what are those programs for? :confused:
I installed PeerGuardian a few weeks back coz I was told it makes me "anonymous" online when using a torrent, but after installation my download speed decreased quite significantly. Of course, I can not be sure that it's the program that caused the sudden change, but I ended up uninstalling the thing. The two events happening just one after another might have been pure coincidence, but I'm in no position to say that since I know very little about that program.
Please advise if I should re-install PeerGuardian or put Peerblock.

PS: I'm running XP, btw.
 
Lostee said:
Forgive me for being clueless, what are those programs for? :confused:
I installed PeerGuardian a few weeks back coz I was told it makes me "anonymous" online when using a torrent, but after installation my download speed decreased quite significantly. Of course, I can not be sure that it's the program that caused the sudden change, but I ended up uninstalling the thing. The two events happening just one after another might have been pure coincidence, but I'm in no position to say that since I know very little about that program.
Please advise if I should re-install PeerGuardian or put Peerblock.

PS: I'm running XP, btw.
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I'd say run peerblock, it works better for me than peer guardian 2 did!!

basically what it's doing is blocking your IP address when you seed files so that you can't be "tracked" by your ISP. There are a few examples on the forum of guys getting e mails from their respective ISP's.

It shouldn't slow down your connection though... give peerblock a bash, rather safe than sorry :D


EDIT: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=208674 Recent post. you should get some good info from reading through that :)
 
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Remydp said:
I'd say run peerblock, it works better for me than peer guardian 2 did!!

... give peerblock a bash, rather safe than sorry :D
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I have just downloaded and ran peerblock, but on the start up wizard, there's only one checked option which is the one with P2P connections. Are there any others I should check? :confused:
 
If there are other protocols that you'd like to be protected from tick those too. If it's only for torrents, you're good to go with the defaults.
 
Lostee said:
I have just downloaded and ran peerblock, but on the start up wizard, there's only one checked option which is the one with P2P connections. Are there any others I should check? :confused:
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The P2P list is the one you want checked - you can optionally block some other IP ranges with the other lists but they aren't needed.

DJNgoma said:
Up until my ISP gives me a call... I must say it is a real speed throttle at times.
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I noticed PeerBlock blocking some legit ranges of CDNs (content delivery networks), specifically Limelight and Steam. It may be worth setting up some allow lists to IP ranges which fall in this category. This may be what's affecting your connection, but I personally haven't experienced any degradation in speed.
 
Lostee said:
Should I also use Peerblock when using GrabIt for NZBs? Are they being watched as torrents?
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no, it's not neccessary if you're only using nzbs.

When you're using nzbs, you're downloading from a single server such as news.saix.net and you aren't sharing anything from your PC with others: ie: they aren't able to connect to you and download from your PC.
 
Sackboy said:
Peerguardian is not available on Windows. (to save some people the time to look it up).
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It's only available for windows? :) http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/
The project just went stagnant and the developer stopped working on bug fixes and improvements.

PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/) is based off the source code of Peerguardian and is an open-source project that continues where Peerguardian left off.
 
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