Author Topic: Best Bitorrent Client? (Read 58137 times)

liddokun · « **Reply #100 on:** April 04, 2008, 12:08:58 PM »

Quote from: iindigo on April 04, 2008, 11:27:34 AM

400Mhz PPC G3? Is that a PowerMac G3 tower, an iMac, or something else? In any case, that thing's got a day or two of age on it...

Also, as another Mac user, what's your opinion on the current version of Transmission?

iMac DV/SE Blueberry, a truly beautyful machine from the past XD . I had to force the installation of Tiger server on it, as it's not officially supported (target mode-install from iBook G4-yay) and you can tell it's forced given that the iChat server dosen't want to start

Transmission... not exactly my piece of cake. However i have to admit that it's main competitor, BitRocket lately got left behind, and that as a simple and eventually even "noobish" client, it works. Still, i don't like it

the fact that it dosen't have a web interface means a lot for me, given it will actually hit the resources of the computer i'm using, instead of another one on the lan, so in my case, it can be at best a client to download a couple of files i don't want to queue on Azureus. Also try BitSticks out, http://www.vanillasoap.com/widgets/ more for the lulz than anything serious, but it's based on the official BitTorrent and from my single test it used no cpu (like 0.5% on the G4 iBook) but it could've been a case.

Hadouken · « **Reply #101 on:** April 15, 2008, 09:53:21 PM »

I've gotten mixed results out of Azureus and Utorrent. I've had to up to 1mb download in Azureus while I can never get past 700 with utorrent. But I'll choose Utorrent since it's less of a resource hog.

BelmontHalo · « **Reply #102 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:16:26 PM »

is there something wrong with the official one? I'm using version 6 atm. thought about getting utorrent but this seems to work.

bcr123 · « **Reply #103 on:** April 17, 2008, 07:55:07 PM »

Quote from: Hadouken on April 15, 2008, 09:53:21 PM

I've gotten mixed results out of Azureus and Utorrent. I've had to up to 1mb download in Azureus while I can never get past 700 with utorrent. But I'll choose Utorrent since it's less of a resource hog.

I've had the official client hit 900+KB/sec until the speedboost wears off on Comcast, since it's based on uTorrent I think it's just coincidence that you've had better speeds with Azureus. I don't use Azureus because it's such a bloated pig of a program. I just want a client that accomplishes 2 things well.. (Download and Seed) I don't need any fancy frontend, plugins, themes etc to do that.

Athrine · « **Reply #104 on:** May 01, 2008, 12:39:13 PM »

i still use flashget is it bad to use it even though i upload alot?

Hadouken · « **Reply #105 on:** May 02, 2008, 07:08:11 PM »

It's not prohibited, just don't be surprised if your ratio doesn't get recorded correctly.
@ bcr - highest I've had in utorrent recently was 990kB/s and that was after using extreme settings,and not allowing any legacy connections, that seems to work since apparently that option blocks out people who are being throttled by their ISP. I tend to use that option when I'm on a torrent with a large amount of seeds and peers, only allows the encrypted connections.

bcr123 · « **Reply #106 on:** May 02, 2008, 08:17:36 PM »

Quote from: Hadouken on May 02, 2008, 07:08:11 PM

It's not prohibited, just don't be surprised if your ratio doesn't get recorded correctly.
@ bcr - highest I've had in utorrent recently was 990kB/s and that was after using extreme settings,and not allowing any legacy connections, that seems to work since apparently that option blocks out people who are being throttled by their ISP. I tend to use that option when I'm on a torrent with a large amount of seeds and peers, only allows the encrypted connections.

I was playing around with local peers the other day and hit 5MB/sec sustained on my lan using a 400mhz PII as the seed box and a 1ghz PIII as the leecher, I think that proves the client isn't a significant limitation.

aghstnashell · « **Reply #107 on:** May 02, 2008, 08:19:40 PM »

Quote from: bcr123 on May 02, 2008, 08:17:36 PM

Quote from: Hadouken on May 02, 2008, 07:08:11 PM
It's not prohibited, just don't be surprised if your ratio doesn't get recorded correctly.
@ bcr - highest I've had in utorrent recently was 990kB/s and that was after using extreme settings,and not allowing any legacy connections, that seems to work since apparently that option blocks out people who are being throttled by their ISP. I tend to use that option when I'm on a torrent with a large amount of seeds and peers, only allows the encrypted connections.

I was playing around with local peers the other day and hit 5MB/sec sustained on my lan using a 400mhz PII as the seed box and a 1ghz PIII as the leecher, I think that proves the client isn't a significant limitation.

I got 1.1Mb/s down using Utorrent with non-local peers. $:-\$

Hadouken · « **Reply #108 on:** May 02, 2008, 11:46:12 PM »

Why do the results jump around like that? Last night, it gave me 32mb for the download part.

aghstnashell · « **Reply #109 on:** May 03, 2008, 12:12:51 AM »

Quote from: Hadouken on May 02, 2008, 11:46:12 PM

Why do the results jump around like that? Last night, it gave me 32mb for the download part.

If you have cable internet then more people are probably using it right now then were last night, my is consistantly around this.

Nicreo · « **Reply #110 on:** May 16, 2008, 07:38:35 PM »

Best BitTorrent client? I have to say µTorrent. It's simple, clean and it works like a dream.

blakeniel · « **Reply #111 on:** May 18, 2008, 11:09:18 AM »

No doubt µTorrent is the best so far. Got it

kureshii · « **Reply #112 on:** May 18, 2008, 12:13:17 PM »

µTorrent. Hard to find portable versions for the rest.

Jayp · « **Reply #113 on:** May 24, 2008, 09:48:42 PM »

Azureus. I tried µTorrent some time ago but I found it oversimplified and lacking some nice features. I just haven't seen any other client offering all the features of Azureus and there's nothing about it I could complain about. Resource hog? I could care less and it has gotten better anyway. Some features could be even more advanced and statistics more detailed though.

moonlight · « **Reply #114 on:** May 30, 2008, 08:41:42 PM »

Somehow I HATE Azureus

This is how Azureus looks like on my computer at my parents (screenshot taken while logged in on my little sister's account)...
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8611/whaaaaro4.jpg

This is how it should look like, I think (screenshot taken while logged in on my own account)...
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3388/hmmim8.jpg

Like... I know my little sister screws up the PC (no idea how she does it)... I don't really care, since I have my own laptop.
But how on earth can Azureus look so messed up under my little sister's account

BTW; I got BitTornado installed on my laptop

Old, but working... Don't fix things (update) when they aren't broken!

NonDeity · « **Reply #115 on:** May 30, 2008, 09:49:02 PM »

Quote from: moonlight on May 30, 2008, 08:41:42 PM

Somehow I HATE Azureus

This is how Azureus looks like on my computer at my parents (screenshot taken while logged in on my little sister's account)...
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8611/whaaaaro4.jpg

This is how it should look like, I think (screenshot taken while logged in on my own account)...
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3388/hmmim8.jpg

Like... I know my little sister screws up the PC (no idea how she does it)... I don't really care, since I have my own laptop.
But how on earth can Azureus look so messed up under my little sister's account

BTW; I got BitTornado installed on my laptop Old, but working... Don't fix things (update) when they aren't broken!

I know what you mean, they screwed up Azureus by commercializing it. Have been a Azureus user for about 3 to 4 years now, since switching from BitComet (some of the worst BS out there). Now I think I'll go to uTorrent soon.

Jayp · « **Reply #116 on:** May 30, 2008, 09:54:37 PM »

Just disable that Vuze crap. As long as you don't use Vuze I can't find anything to complain about Azureus.

nekrotyrael · « **Reply #117 on:** May 31, 2008, 01:20:23 PM »

i've been using utorrent under wine for quite some time, but i'm going to switch to a native client sooner or later.

Semnae · « **Reply #118 on:** June 03, 2008, 06:48:16 AM »

I'll vote for µTorrent, just to give it an even hundred votes.

Xemnarth · « **Reply #119 on:** June 03, 2008, 08:30:12 AM »

uTorrent. Period.