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Best Bitorrent Client?

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chisophugis:
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:

--- 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  :D!

--- End quote ---

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:
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? :P

milosbeli:
Id go with Uttorent.

vuzedome:
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.

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