Best Bitorrent Client?

[miwasuzuki]

'cause utorrent PWNS all!

[CryFleuret]

Deluge, Linux.

[conall88]

utorrent hands down.

reasons:

- skinnable ( boxtorrents skin anyone?!)
- accepts plugins
- very low memory usage
- awesome interface
-deals well with multiple connections ( 300+)
-updated regularly
- no spyware/adware
- made by bram cohen and his team, who developed bit-torrent themselves!

[Xiong Chiamiov]

uTorrent was actually written by Ludvig Strigeus, with maintenance done by the Bittorrent team since they bought it in 2006.

[AppleNick]

I torrent from a non-Windows computer (Linux) so I am using Transmission and love it. On Windows, I've used uTorrent and had no problems with it.

[captiosus]

uTorrent on any windows OS, Transmission on linux.

Used to be a big bitcomet nerd, but when it stopped working right after my ram upgrade, i gave it a hearty f*ck you and swtiched everything to uTorrent. Originally had it set up so that 'comet would download and uTorrent would seed. Guess it didnt like that.

[Angelkiller]

;Azureus;

I know Azureus takes more mem but I don't care about that, I really love the part of setting up the crap, so I can seed at my collage , 5MBs a sec, I wish I had that at home

[bobjoe]

rtorrent is the best, especially if you care about your ratio. I run it on a linux box at home, within a detached screen session, so that I can manage all my torrents from my laptop at school, from upstairs, or wherever. Then, since this box is just sitting there all the time, it boosts up my ratio a lot more than I could if I used utorrent on my laptop, which is only turned on a few hours a day. Additionally, I can pick something out to download while I'm out, at when I get home, it will already have been going for hours.

[captiosus]

I might switch back to using Bitcomet or start running comet and utorrent in tandem again on my laptop, although i think thats what b0rked bitcomet in the first place: running 2 BT clients at the same time

[Aneroph]

I see no one using BitTorrent anymore...isn't it modeled in the exact same manor as uTorrent? The wikipedia comparing clients even have everything the same. is there some sort of security features or something that I am missing? Would it really be worth switching to uTorrent instead?

[raylu]

rtorrent is the best, especially if you care about your ratio. I run it on a linux box at home, within a detached screen session, so that I can manage all my torrents from my laptop at school, from upstairs, or wherever. Then, since this box is just sitting there all the time, it boosts up my ratio a lot more than I could if I used utorrent on my laptop, which is only turned on a few hours a day. Additionally, I can pick something out to download while I'm out, at when I get home, it will already have been going for hours.

I used to have the exact same setup. However, rTorrent doesn't allow me to rename or move torrents, didn't organize my torrents, and, more importantly, stayed connected to seeds if it didn't have 100% of the torrent, even if parts were marked as "do not download" (in other words, it's a leecher in the sense that it hasn't completed the torrent, but only I told it not to download some files, so the correct behavior would be to disconnect from seeds). I generally prefer CLIs to GUIs, but Deluge won me out (it also runs on my headless machine and I connect to it using either the web or GTK interface).

I see no one using BitTorrent anymore...isn't it modeled in the exact same manor as uTorrent? The wikipedia comparing clients even have everything the same. is there some sort of security features or something that I am missing? Would it really be worth switching to uTorrent instead?

See this post:

uTorrent was actually written by Ludvig Strigeus, with maintenance done by the Bittorrent team since they bought it in 2006.

As far as I understand, BitTorrent isn't being developed any more.

uTorrent on any windows OS, Transmission on linux.

Transmission works... but doesn't sort my torrents in any sensible way whatsoever. Deluge recently added a grouping by tracker domain which is really nice. The main reason I'm not using it is still the fact that I need something running on my headless machine that I can connect to remotely.

[WingZero8788]

I use uTorrent. Best client I've used out of uTorrent, Azureus/Vuze, Azureus 2.5 and earlier, BitComet, BitTornado, and Ares.

[AntiPaladin]

uTorrent, simple as that.

I've used every other major client, and they're either less stable or eat more memory (I'm looking at you, Azureus)

[Jamesy]

uTorrent on Windows.
rTorrent (optionally coupled with wTorrent for web-based management) on linux.

[vortex69]

Windows: uTorrent
Linux GUI: Transmission or Deluge (can't really decide, both are nice)
Linux CLI (command line): rTorrent (and an honourable mention to transmissioncli)

[heavyoak]

Vuze is the best.

It uses only 58% of my cpu and 658 Mb of ram. And it only uses only port so it doesn't make my firewall go crazy. 

uTorrent used 100% of my cpu and 1GB of ram. And it opened 126 ports and still couldn't download anything.

[razirazo_90]

Bitcomet on windows ,
rTorrent on linux.

i dont have any problems with port-whatever since my computer is in dmz.

[yaamakoh]

utorrent 1.6.1.
I heard that bitcoment reports incorrect ratio statistics resulting in a higher seeded profile than usual.  Also I heard it doesn't have the disabling of DHT and uses heavy resources on your computer.

[razirazo_90]

utorrent 1.6.1.
I heard that bitcoment reports incorrect ratio statistics resulting in a higher seeded profile than usual.  Also I heard it doesn't have the disabling of DHT and uses heavy resources on your computer.

that was very,very old issue back to ver 0.60. according to wikipedia,that exploit was fixed on ver 0.61 and current version is 1.12(although I'm using 0.64)
aside of some black old  day story, now BC is clean and very efficient client.

as far i use this client don't have any resource issue.it's resource consumption may not good as utorrent but since it built using C++, it was far  better than java based one such as vuze.

[LiquidZero]

i like vuze simply because it has more advanced things you can do to it.
where utorrent is nice and simple i need something advanced that i can be in full control of.
plus vuze has a lot of nice plugins like chat,the flag thing that shows you what country your peers/seeders live in, the converter so i can stream media to my 360.... oh yeah thats quite nice.
it is CPU demanding though but its worth it since i can have my torrents running to the max.
utorrent is good. just not enough things advanced things i can change.

i may switch back though since its less cpu demanding.