Some of the vuze options like the ignore rules or the auto starting depend on how many seeds are in the swarm, it will be better to wait for the tracker and search for alternative methods like dht to find seeds. Some tasks at start show 0 seeds so the ignore rules are pretty much useless for those tasks even if they might have plenty of seeds to be ignored. And if you have set vuze a limited tasks to run, the ones that show 0 seeds will have priority, even if you might have other tasks in queue that need seeds more urgently.

I've used a VPN with Vuze (force=yes) for several months and two trackers show my ISP IP# instead of VPN IP# so i guess it's sent sometime somehow (though i didn't detect it in simple traffic captures of scrape requests).

I'm not sure on the implications of this for my privacy/anonymity but at least it defeats some purposes of using a VPN with BT.

What i've found in the SVN:
"(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();" needs to be replaced (to use NetworkManager i guess) in http://svn.vuze.com/public/client/trunk/azureus2/src/com/aelitis/azureus/core/versioncheck/VersionCheckClient.java , http://svn.vuze.com/public/client/trunk/azureus2/src/org/gudy/azureus2/core3/ipchecker/extipchecker/impl/ExternalIPCheckerServiceImpl.java and maybe other places..

Since i don't think i'll be able to implement this myself, until otherwise solved, i'll try to have a local HTTP proxy rewrite the "sourceipaddress" part in Vuze's reply from "http://version.vuze.com/version?" (found in VersionCheckClient.java above with VERSIONSERVERV4 in http://svn.vuze.com/public/client/trunk/azureus2/src/org/gudy/azureus2/core3/util/Constants.java)

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD SPEEDS, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND PLUGINS, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE USER INTERFACE WOUL DBE GREAT TO MAYBE SIMPLIFY IT FOR NEWBEES, HAVE BETTER EXPLAINATIONS OF PLUGINS THAT ARE IN ENGLSIH AND NOT COMPUTER TALK, VUZE IS AWESOME AS IS, BUT FOR MANY THEY CAN NOT UNDERSTAND SEEEDS PEERS AND WHY THEY SEE 30 OUT OF 140 SEEDS WHILE THEY ARE DOWNLOADING, OR 6 OUT OF 690 PEERS, THEY WISH TO KNOW HOW TO INCREASE THIS VALUE, IN ENGLISH TALK. MORE SEEDS MEANS BETTER DOWNLAOD SPEEDS? MORE PEERS MEANS THE SAME? THEY SIMPLY DONT KNOW. AND THE HELP PAGE THAT VUZE OFFERS DONT HELP DUE TO TO MUCH PC TALK NO SIMPLE ENGLISH WORDS THAT THOSE WHO NEED HELP CANT UNDERSTAND, AND I FEEL THAT ALL TEMPLATES SHOUL DBE INCLUDED, AS WELL THE BEST PLUGINS AREADY SET FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO JUST GET GOING WITHOUT ANY USER INPUT TO BETTER THE VUZE EXPERIENCE, AS WELL THE PORTS SHOULD BE SET UP TO 50000. OR TO THE BETTER PORTS THAT VUZE HAS ALREADY SAID TO SET THEM TO. THIS WAY USER INPUT IS LITTLE AND MORE WILL USE VUZE, I HAVE USED IT FOR YEARS I FIND MYSELF TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN VUZE BECAUSE I FEEL ITS THE BEST, BUT THEY SAY THEY DONT UNDERSTAND CERTAIN THINGS AS SAID ABOVE, MAYBE AN AUTO DETECT OF SYSTEM SETTING WOULD HELP TO SET VUZE UP PROPER FOR THOSE WHO KNOW LITTLE ABOUT TORRENTS, THAT IS ALL, OTHER THEN THAT VUZE IS SIMPLY AWESOME. ALSO THE NEWER VERSIONS OF VUZE ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND FOR MANY, SIMPLY PUT THE OLDER VERSIONS ARE BEST, THE JAVA RUN TIME IS ALSO HAVING ISSUES WHEN MAIKING COMMENTS AND DISAPEARING, AS WELL WHEN YOU VIEW COMMENTS VUZE WILL DISAPEAR, "CLOSE DOWN"

PLEASE workaround on how to increase the overall memory cache over the current cap! make a simple check box somewhere, or even a defined parameter, so that people with 100 mbit+ speeds and much RAM to stop getting the XX:MaxMemoryDirectSize error
- i tried fixing it for almost 10 hours, still when i open task manager i don t see vuze getting past 700mb used memory
- in utorrent we have the 'override automatic cache size' that goes up to 1800mb (32 bit 2gb cap), get the example from there
- i really like vuze, but for larger torrents (15gb+ per se) i have to use utorrent and it s annoying