Author Topic: Best Bitorrent Client? (Read 58102 times)

Necriatria · « **Reply #160 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:43:05 PM »

I use Vuze/Azureus with the classic interface. It really doesn't seem to consume a lot of resources on my MacBook; I've never had any resource problems with Java applications on this computer. I get decent speeds, uPnP seems to work (always have green NAT icon), and it's easy to control seeding and whatnot. The distributed database also works well on sites other than Box and private trackers.

dankles · « **Reply #161 on:** January 02, 2009, 08:46:18 PM »

Windows = uTorrent
Linux/UNIX = libTorrent/rTorrent

But I only use linux/FreeBSD now so its rTorrent all the way for me!

Xaravir · « **Reply #162 on:** January 03, 2009, 10:18:18 AM »

I used to use Azureus Vuze back on my old computer. I hated running it because it lagged a lot and it consumed a lot of resources. I never bothered to get anything else until I got my new computer. Azureus wouldn't work on my new computer for some reason, so I switched to uTorrent and I loved it since uTorrent is very very light on the system.

wurm · « **Reply #163 on:** January 04, 2009, 03:31:09 PM »

utorrent is all i use period

slurfen · « **Reply #164 on:** January 12, 2009, 05:04:22 PM »

I´ve just tried Bittorrent and uTorrent. Prefered the second one because of it´s simplicity and low RAM usage.

dankles · « **Reply #165 on:** January 27, 2009, 03:45:46 AM »

rtorrent... smallest and fastest.... kicks utorrents a**.

SeanSadistiK · « **Reply #166 on:** January 27, 2009, 08:37:30 PM »

Utorrent forever.

js.

Keevtara · « **Reply #167 on:** February 02, 2009, 06:22:06 PM »

I use µTorrent exclusively.

Xiong Chiamiov · « **Reply #168 on:** February 13, 2009, 12:15:48 AM »

Quote from: boxer4 on August 09, 2007, 01:23:41 PM

I use rtorrent. So far I've yet to see one as good as rtorrent for Linux as everyone thinks GUIs are mandatory :-(

BTG has a very nice concept (and many nice features), but after struggling with getting it to do what I wanted, I switched back to rTorrent. Nothing compares...

chosen1 · « **Reply #169 on:** February 20, 2009, 04:28:22 PM »

I was ready to click on other and then I saw Transmission! Bless all the people who support Mac with good seeding/downloading

!

Duki3003 · « **Reply #170 on:** February 20, 2009, 04:49:26 PM »

Quote from: dankles on January 27, 2009, 03:45:46 AM

rtorrent... smallest and fastest.... kicks utorrents a**.

You consider 263 kb to be large? Do you own a 286? ;P

Lupin · « **Reply #171 on:** February 20, 2009, 05:03:28 PM »

Quote from: duki3003 on February 20, 2009, 04:49:26 PM

You consider 263 kb to be large? Do you own a 286? ;P

he's using linux

damai_mikaz · « **Reply #172 on:** February 20, 2009, 10:08:03 PM »

µTorrent. Simple, fast, and doesn't use up too much RAM

miwasuzuki · « **Reply #173 on:** March 01, 2009, 04:59:23 PM »

woohoo! utorrent!!!

Dodgemydesu · « **Reply #174 on:** March 09, 2009, 08:45:14 PM »

µTorrent is awesome

, works fine under wine also.

chisophugis · « **Reply #175 on:** March 12, 2009, 08:12:06 AM »

I reinstalled my system software on my crappy old computer, and so I thought I'd start anew with a new bittorrent client. I had had Vuze, but it ate so much memory that on a 256MB system you couldn't have anything else open. So I downloaded uTorrent. I loved the low memory footprint and I was having a great time...until...I realized that I had no control over what my torrents were doing. I couldn't do anything. uTorrent has some options and stuff that you can do, but after having Vuze, I couldn't stand it. Over the next week, I found that it lacked even more features. One poignant example is changing upload speed on a per-torrent basis. To my knowledge uTorrent doesn't have that functionality, but I feel it rather important to seed some torrents more and some less, or at least to change the criterion my client is using for determining seeding. I know I'm hyperbolizing, but really it felt like all I could do was start and stop torrents.

Another thing that I'm sure is more a personal computer problem was that uTorrent wouldn't fill my upload bandwidth, so it didn't seed as much as I wanted it too.

I ended up uninstalling it and installing Vuze. I can see why people like running uTorrent, but it's just not the right program for the hardcore bittorrenter in me.

For people like me that really like to shepherd their torrents and make sure that things are going the way they should be, Vuze has no competition, not to mention some plugins that I like running to help P2P research such as Ono or the Yale Instrumentation plugin.

In short, I prefer Vuze.

SirSkyRider · « **Reply #176 on:** March 12, 2009, 04:39:17 PM »

Quote from: chosen1 on February 20, 2009, 04:28:22 PM

I was ready to click on other and then I saw Transmission! Bless all the people who support Mac with good seeding/downloading !

QFT.

I went with Vuze first, and it was quite okay when it came to the settings, but Transmission is much more slim and fast, thus more effective and basically all I need for seeding and downloading.

mmmeee0 · « **Reply #177 on:** March 13, 2009, 03:05:32 AM »

Holy fuck that's a lot of Utorrents.... and I can't believe I'm using it as well...good little thing, isn't it?

milosbeli · « **Reply #178 on:** March 13, 2009, 04:52:13 PM »

Id go with Uttorent.

vuzedome · « **Reply #179 on:** March 19, 2009, 01:22:21 AM »

hmm.... why is it that BitComet clients can leech so hard from me? I know its a good thing because I'm seeding, but other clients don't even reach such speeds while leeching off me.

Author Topic: Best Bitorrent Client? (Read 58102 times)

Necriatria