I suffer from Downloading Syndrome

I have finally realized it… I don’t know if it’s too late… but I am going to get out of this…

First of all, please let me tell you how much I love Azureus… it’s just great… simply amazing… There’s another bittorrent client, utorrent, which is pretty kewl cause it comes in a single small file that doesn’t even need to be installed… but I prefer Azureus cause it seems to have better performance and support for plug-ins.

About a month back I installed the Advanced Statistics plug-in for Azureus. As the name suggests, it gives advanced statistics about the torrents being downloaded and the overall process… in short, a lot of figures and graphs… going though the recorded statistics, I have realized that I suffer from some serious problem. I guess there are many others out there… but I personally think, I have let things get way out of hands. To see what I am talking about, open the thumbnail below…

As it shows, in the last 42 days and 11 hours, I have downloaded about 92.79 GB of data. Shame on me that during the same time I have only uploaded 55.40 GB… that works out to about 2.2 GB/day download and 1.3 GB/day upload… Also, since I installed this plug-in some 25 days back, I have downloaded about 57 GB…

Some more stats… other than a few very low values, the minimum downloaded data size has been 1.17 GB (05/11/06) and maximum around 4.78 GB (06/02/06), in a single day… Lately, since I found out about this problem, I have stopped downloading as much and just trying to see the stuff that I can.

Another thought that crosses my mind is that this is just the stuff I get off torrents… there a whole lot more downloading that keeps happening now and then on the side… 

I have decided… NO MORE of this downloading anymore… very limited and only the necessary things… don’t want to get into any kind of shit…

p.s. while you are at getting Azureus installed or checking out the Advanced Statistics plug-in… also check out the 3D view and Auto Speed plug-in