Which BT client do you use?

Post by **Quest** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:51 am

i previously use bittornado as my BT client.

just like firefox, this new discovery of uTorrent is awesome.
the wonder of it is that its just a 160kb executable.
there is no installation required.

http://www.utorrent.com/
that is all.
=)

[edit="psi29a"]made the subject line more clear[/edit]
edit: actually i just wanted to highlight uTorrent as a great BT client. the poll was a side quest.

Post by **newbified** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:19 pm

I use Shareaza.

I don't think it's very obscure but I could always be wrong...

Post by **MournfulWoods** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:23 pm

I use torrentstorm. It takes too much memory to my taste but I never really checked out for anything better. I just downloaded Utorrent, I'll give it a try.

Post by **psi29a** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:42 pm

I like utorrent for quick jobs, however I'm an Azureus fan because it is all the tools I need to get EG's releases out and help seed.

Almost all the torrents on the Mindwerks Tracker where created using Azureus, the earlier ones where by hand using the official bit-torrent software.

For awhile I used bittornado, but it has been rendered dead to me thanks to Azureus and it's plugins (Peer Guardian, to keep mpaa,riaa,policia out) and other neat stuff.

Post by **Quest** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:16 pm

i never use azureus.
but its the swiss-army knife of bittorrent. all the best tools and tweaks are in it.

i love utorrent for its minimalism yet feels more powerful than bittornado.

Post by **Eldo** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:24 pm

psi introduced me to utorrent, and I use that in combination with BitLord, another BT client that I can't be bothered to change to a better option.

Post by **Femto** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:25 pm

Azureus.

I used Bitlord for a while and it was pretty good but I went back to Azureus eventually.

I still don't like how it allocates the space for the download on your hard drive before it even starts downloading. Sometimes I might want one file or two from a 30GB torrent and I might not have that kind of space in my hard drive. I'm not sure if there's an option to get rid of that.

Bitlord was better in the sense that it let you choose what you wanted to get before the download started.

Post by **LordMune** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:46 pm

I am also an Azureus man.

Post by **hadi** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:53 pm

[quote="Femto"]

I still don't like how it allocates the space for the download on your hard drive before it even starts downloading. Sometimes I might want one file or two from a 30GB torrent and I might not have that kind of space in my hard drive. I'm not sure if there's an option to get rid of that.
quote]

update your azureus your 2.4.0.2

Post by **Buzkashi** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:55 pm

I use bittornado. I just like the simple click and download things. Sure it might be slower but I leave em on while I'm sleeping anyways.

Post by **psi29a** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:11 pm

Femto wrote:I still don't like how it allocates the space for the download on your hard drive before it even starts downloading. Sometimes I might want one file or two from a 30GB torrent and I might not have that kind of space in my hard drive. I'm not sure if there's an option to get rid of that.

There are options you can select (Advanced) that changes how files are created either all at once to reserve the space, or to only write when you get the data, and another option.

Post by **Sandman** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:53 pm

I like the Bittorrent now you can have more then three downloads with a status bar and it seems faster to me, but maybe its just the new location I have been DLing

Post by **Libaax** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:44 am

Azureus is the best and i like how you can download only parts of an a torrent.

Thats important to me cause i do that often when i download a hole season torrent of tv show or anime or something and i only need some eps not the hole season.

Is Utorrent faster than Azureus? Azureus i think could be faster.

Post by **psi29a** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:04 am

uTorrent is smaller and consumes less resources, but as for 'faster' that is all dependant on seeders and your internet connection no matter your software of choice.

Post by **Libaax** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:13 am

Some clients i have seen has it easier to connect to seeders and peers thats what i mean by faster.

Post by **psi29a** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:37 am

Libaax wrote:Some clients i have seen has it easier to connect to seeders and peers thats what i mean by faster.

faster is very subjective, glad you clarified. depending on the software used, it will differ a bit on how it can connect. For example, newer bit-torrent clients use UPnP to poke holes in your Router/Firewalls (Linksys, netgear etc) to allow people to connect to you, and in turn giving you more access to seeders and hence a faster download.

The price for these (and more) techniques is the size of the program used (it gets bigger, consumes more resources).

Up to you to figure out which one is best for your needs.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:38 am

uTorrent.

Post by **panasonic** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:40 am

ya, i dont know y, but azureus tends to give me better results. i seem to connect to better peers when using it, for example, y was dl/ing some games using utorrent for days, and i got a few kilobytes a second most of the time, so i switched to azureus and got much better speeds, like 200 times better to be precise

Post by **Quest** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:31 am

i think comparing one client over another in terms of which will give you more speed is pretty hard to pinpoint.
because a myriad of other factors like seeds and location also play important roles.

i may spend some time to look at azureus.
for now i love utorrent for its compactness, efficiency and "to the point"-ness.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:42 am

I was using azureus but I lost the point when I didn't use all the extra features and plugins ect.

Post by **Gundam_Bobcat** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:44 pm

I can not use Bit Torrent, but that will only be for the summer then I will be free from the oppression of the dorms network.

Post by **halfnhalf** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:18 pm

Gundam_Bobcat wrote:

I can not use Bit Torrent, but that will only be for the summer then I will be free from the oppression of the dorms network.

gasp! im not the only one.
fucking dorm networks...

Post by **Finito** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:31 pm

Bittornado, just the simplest to get, install, to use and to understand for me and got all the options I need too.
Speed is the same as bitcomet and bittorrent to me.

Post by **psi29a** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:39 pm

bitcomit is the evil, bottom line.

It does not respect standards and abuses trackers, and is banned by some trackers and if I see heavy abuse on my tracker then I will ban bitcomet as well.

If you use it, I'm sorry, we can't help you. Switch to Azureus, it has more features and sucks less.

Post by **Devil_Dante** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:58 pm

Azureus. I first tried the original bit torrent client, but it just didn't work out for me.