BitTorrent Client Comparison

Written by Ernesto on April 22, 2006 

What is the best BitTorrent client? Although it’s not an easy question to answer, we will give it a try. We compared more than 20 BitTorrent clients (windows) on 9 features and the overall impression. Some features are of course more important that others, depending on the users needs.

The following features are considered in this comparison:

Essential features:

There are a couple of features that every client should have. How important these features are depends on your personal preferences and usage of BitTorrent. If you use BitTorrent only to download linux distro’s “RSS support” is probably not that important to you. However, if you use BitTorrent to download TV-shows you might consider RSS support as an essential feature.

Overall these nine features are considered more or less essential.

Priotarization: Is the client able to assign download priorities to the torrents? This option allows you to assign more bandwidth to a torrent.
DHT: Does the client support “trackerless” torrents. DHT keeps the torrent alive if the tracker goes offline.
Selective Downloading: Can you select files within the torrent that you want to download (or not). Can be very useful to check samples (most movies have samples) or to download 1 album out of a “complete discography” torrent.
Encryption: Does the client support “protocol encryption”. To protect yourself against traffic shaping / throttling ISP’s.
Tracker: Does the client have a (built in) tracker. Can be useful if you’re publishing torrents.
Remote Control: Does it support (web based) remote control. A web Gui allows you to access your torrents from any computer in the world.
Super Seeding: Are you able to super seed. Super seeding is different (more efficient) from seeding because it tries to send out pieces of the file that have not been sent before.
RSS: Does the client have RSS support. With RSS you can automatically download your favorite torrents.
UPnP Port Mapping: Is there UPnP support. If your router supports UPnP, you don’t need to forward any ports

A quick comparison on these features shows us that only six clients (that I’m aware of) support more than half of the features.

  • ABC (5)
  • Azureus (9)
  • Bitcomet (7)
  • Bittornado (5)
  • uTorrent (9)
  • XBT (6)
  • Here are the results. I have experience with all 6 clients mentioned here and came to the following conclusion.

    1st place: uTorrent

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    uTorrent is the absolute winner, without a doubt. It supports all the features that I mentioned. Is is extremely lightweight, it uses only 7000K memory instead of 50.000K that a clean install of Azureus uses.

    Another great option, especially for starting users, is the “setup wizard” that helps you to configure uTorrent’s settings.

    uTorrent is actively under development and the developers carefully listen to their users.

    uTorrent supports 9 out of 9 features.

    2nd place: Azureus

    Azureus is the runner up. They do support all the features that are listed (some via plugins), Azureus and uTorrent are in fact the only clients that support all these features. Azureus is a great client, and especially for those who don’t care about memory and cpu usage but like to get all kinds of fancy features to pimp up their BitTorrent client.

    But it uses 7x as much memory as uTorrent, and requires Java, which some people might consider a problem.

    Azureus has an outstanding dev team that is constantly improving their client, the runner up, but a really great one.

    Azureus supports 9 out of 9 features.

    3rd place: Bitcomet and XBT

    Bitcomet and XBT are two totally different clients.

    Bitcomet had some troubles in the past and was banned from several private trackers for ignoring the “private flag”. In the meanwhile those problems are solved and Bitcomet is regaining its credibility. It removed the IE toolbar in the latest release, and the torrent encryption is now compatible with Azureus and uTorrent. Bitcomet doesn’t have a Remote Control feature and it doesn’t support Super Seeding. The memory usage is on average 30.000k.

    Bitcomet supports 7 out of 9 features.

    XBT is a no-nonsense client. No great looks, but it does what it has to and is very lightweight like uTorrent (10.000k memory). So if you don’t care about looks, XBT might be something for you. XBT does not support BitTorrent encryption, RSS, and DHT.

    XBT supports 6 out of 9 features.

    5th place: ABC

    ABC (another BitTorrent client). Decent client, nice interface. ABC does not support BitTorrent Encryption, RSS, DHT and it doesn’t have a tracker. BitTorrent is based on Bittornado, and added a queuing system.

    ABC supports 5 out of 9 features.

    6th place: Bittornado

    Bittornado has the same options as ABC but without the queuing system. It is the successor of Shad0w’s Experimental Client, one of my all time favorites (used it for almost a year). Bittornado was the first client to implement the Super Seeding feature.

    Bittornado supports 5 out of 9 features.

    Horrible Mention: Artic Torrent

    Developed to use low memory and cpu, and it does. But it doesn’t support any of the nine features we listed. Artic supports 0 out of 9 features.

    You can find out more about the features that are supported (or not) on Wikipedia

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    Next: The Decemberists Release Music Video on BitTorrent

    87 Responses

    1 Apr 22, 2006 at 21:07 by falafelboy

    uTorrent is also far and away the best. But I had no idea it included the remote control option.

    Will check it out.

    2 Apr 22, 2006 at 22:55 by Mark

    Nice little review here. Thank you.

    3 Apr 23, 2006 at 00:01 by catkiller

    uTorrent gets my vote too. Azureus is just too bloated and java is slow and cumbersome. It is a shame that uTorrent’s developer is doing business with an anti-p2p company. I still use it but am a little nervous now.

    4 Apr 23, 2006 at 04:15 by Alex

    Great review. Could not agree with you more! Why anyone would want to use anything other than uTorrent is beyond me. Also just a quick mention of a typo.. under “Horrible Mention: Artic Torrent” you say that “Bitcomet supports 0 out of 9 features.” Shouldn’t it be “Artic Torrent”?

    5 Apr 23, 2006 at 07:06 by kron

    u torrent works great for me, and there was no real comfirmation that its developer s working for a anti p2p company. I find it nonsense.

    6 Apr 23, 2006 at 16:14 by Nasty

    Well i believe bitcomet is the best bittorent client and its the fastest amongst all

    7 Apr 24, 2006 at 10:42 by Dada

    I really like the extra functionality provided by the plug-ins in Azureus.

    In my opinion it outweighs the heavy nature of the client.

    SafePeer all the way!

    8 Apr 24, 2006 at 11:35 by grokuik

    µTorrent is not free software, which some people might consider a problem!

    9 Apr 24, 2006 at 20:37 by Kris

    not free? where are you getting it?

    10 Apr 24, 2006 at 21:26 by jab

    Utorrent is FREE
    http://www.utorrent.com

    11 Apr 25, 2006 at 16:03 by falafelboy

    I think he meant open-source. Its not open source, but it is free.

    And azureus does provide a lot fo features, but its java based, and takes upwards of 100 mb, in some cases.

    no thx. Just run peerguardian if u insist with uTorrent. It adds up to 14mb max!

    12 Apr 26, 2006 at 22:49 by sinip

    µTorrent is just GREAT piece of software. Well done!!! My recomendations…

    13 Apr 28, 2006 at 11:51 by The_Man

    ???
    How does a closed source, windows only program beat out a GPL Java app that runs on damn near every operating system? YEAH µTorrent runs on BSD & Linux and OS X!! (Oh wait, it doesn’t.)

    µTorrent doesn’t even have a software license on it. Just says ‘Copyrighted’ like its a book.

    The whole point of GPL code is you don’t have to:
    1) Trust their word, cause you can trust the code instead. On his homepage theres a bit of controversy ‘µTorrent is not associated with any anti-P2P organization’. WE BELIEVE YOU. YOU MUST BE HONEST ‘CAUSE YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WEB SITE.
    2) Pay money today for code that was free yesterday.
    3) Beg the Developer who’s going to school/doesn’t care/now has a job to add features.
    4) Fix every last bug in your pet project yourself. GPL code is usually high quality cause everyone is busy trying to fix it.

    Azureus & ABC will be here in 2 years time, GPL stays GPL.

    14 May 01, 2006 at 00:06 by kd2k

    “How does a closed source, windows only program beat out a GPL Java app that runs on damn near every operating system?”

    Well, if you’re running on windows and as long as you aren’t paying for the software, then the criteria mentioned in the article is enough justification.

    “1) Trust their word, cause you can trust the code instead. On his homepage theres a bit of controversy ‘µTorrent is not associated with any anti-P2P organization’. WE BELIEVE YOU. YOU MUST BE HONEST ‘CAUSE YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WEB SITE.”

    There are really good software that you don’t pay for that don’t release their own source code, and their integrity is seen in their product. Until spyware is found, there’s no reason to think otherwise.

    “3) Beg the Developer who’s going to school/doesn’t care/now has a job to add features.”

    As it is, uTorrent already has the 9 features shown, and is matched only by Azreus. uTorrent isn’t exactly lagging behind in features, compared to a lot of the other open-source clients.

    “4) Fix every last bug in your pet project yourself. GPL code is usually high quality cause everyone is busy trying to fix it.”

    Again, a lot of Softwares that people don’t pay for have their code maintained pretty well by themselves.

    There are strengths and weaknesses to Open Source. One of it’s weaknesses in p2p clients is branching off into different directions with regards to implementation. You get clients that are banned or super-leech; you get different applications of “quota”, etc. With the splintered approaches, you get an overall less efficient network.

    The article’s criteria is for program efficiency and effectiveness of p2p transfers, not crossplatform compatibility, nor longevity.

    And if the developer decides to make the product commercial later on, in order to get paid for his sweat, then what’s wrong with that? Doesn’t everyone who works get paid a salary?

    15 May 01, 2006 at 23:21 by sinip

    By The_Man on 04.28.06 11:51 am

    ???
    How does a closed source, windows only > program beat out a GPL Java app that runs on damn near every operating system? YEAH µTorrent runs on BSD & Linux and OS X!! (Oh wait, it doesn’t.)

    µTorrent doesn’t even have a software license on it. Just says ‘Copyrighted’ like its a book.

    Hey Man, you’re barking at the wrong tree. Personally I use Winblow$ only for having my PC constantly on wireless ineternet and running eMule/uTorrent 24/7. For _everything_ else I use OS/2 and many Java programs with it, Limewire for instance. But I KNOW how much any Java app is memory hungry. Therefore I prefer to have native solution, and in Winblow$ world I use uTorrent. Eventually, one of these days I will make my OS/2 system wireless ready and switch all filesharing use to it via amule/Limewire and OS/2 version of torrent program.
    ABout copyright, honestly, I COULD NOT CARE LESS. I never paid a single dime for software in my life. :-) International law suck big time anyway, I learnt it hard way… Its USA way or bomb way, anyway, so screw them… :->

    16 May 06, 2006 at 05:37 by royski007

    i agree, utorrent is a great torrent handler… it only lacks some speed. for me, bitcomet has always beaten all other torrenters on different computers and settings.
    i would go for utorrent if it would be as fast as bitcomet.

    17 May 14, 2006 at 18:11 by socolef

    utorrent is the best client.
    bitcomet is the one I used before, I always had crashingproblems after several hours[more than 20] down- or uploading.
    So utorrent is a big improvement.
    And bitcomet has the dht problemthingy.
    For me utorrent is the fastest and best client I ever had. And I tried them all, except the mac- or linuxversions.
    And yes it`s 100% free but so are most clients.

    18 May 31, 2006 at 21:46 by Mint_Hamond

    i dont know why bittorrent client is considered the worst…i have gotten some pretty wicked speeds off of it(350+)that i have yet to get off a dedicated server. and i have still yet to get 200+ off of bitcomet, but ill try it some more

    19 Jun 01, 2006 at 02:30 by MissChocoe

    I haven’t tried Utorrent, but I like Azureus. The optimal setting is quite complex to get at first but there’s plenty of tutorial to help you with it.

    One thing I wonder : my Azureus won’t established connexion with ABC client… Is it a known bug??

    20 Jun 01, 2006 at 02:54 by MissChocoe

    OK forget that. I finally solved the problem. It juste because somewhere I’ve configured it to refuse non-encrypted connexion…

    One thing to add about BitTorrents : on some private site, it doesn’t send the d/l and u/l information right, therefore breaking your ration…

    21 Jun 04, 2006 at 23:57 by ddfas

    you have an error at the bottom line at arctic about the features supported….you name bitcomet there

    22 Jun 05, 2006 at 01:58 by Ernesto

    oohps, thanks ;)

    23 Jun 11, 2006 at 09:26 by hunk_manoj

    Hopefully, this review will be helpful for me. Was using BitTornado for the last seven odd months.
    After reading this review i will go for µTorrent and see how it goes.

    Thank u guys

    24 Jul 11, 2006 at 07:45 by zzatz

    Nice review, but the features labeled essential are better described as desirable.

    The ability to run is essential. All of the features of uTorrent are useless if I’m not running Windows. Best choice if I run Windows? Sure! Not even the worst choice if I’m not – it isn’t a choice at all.

    Platform is essential. It should be listed at least, if not included in the ratings.

    25 Jul 15, 2006 at 23:16 by ReVeL

    Thanks, was looking for a good comparison!

    26 Jul 19, 2006 at 18:36 by itzme

    sup all,
    first of all very nice work there! i needed something like that!

    BUT …

    im lookin for a bittorrent client that is like utorrent. acually im lookin for utorrent FOR LINUX!

    27 Jul 21, 2006 at 18:38 by samwac7

    Nice article. I have used three of the clients mentioned and in my opinion uTorrent and Bitcomet are the best. What the programmers of these clients really need to focus on is the encryption because more and more IP’s are capping bandwidth of torrent users (like mine), and a message to all the users of torrent software ‘PLEASE START USING ENCRYPTION’.

    28 Aug 06, 2006 at 00:01 by HIM

    I need a torrent client for linux and prefer not to use java based apps.

    29 Sep 03, 2006 at 01:30 by Peet

    For linuxy people, I seem to remember someone saying uTorrent runs on wine.

    Alternatively, I’ve heard ktorrent is much like utorrent for linux.

    30 Sep 03, 2006 at 22:43 by BTreeHugger

    “µTorrent runs on BSD & Linux and OS X!! (Oh wait, it doesn’t.)”

    Lazy, lazy. uTorrent works fine in Wine under Linux. In fact, even when running under Wine it still beats Azureus in performance, both in download speeds and RAM usage, out of the box. Azureus is fine if you are willing to put up with Java and its occasional hiccup. uTorrent is just as good, but is more responsive and generally nags a lot less.

    Any arguments about licensing are skin-deep unless you are actively participating in OSS projects, rather than just whining about it. I’d bet most people who use Azureus never stopped to think about donations, and would rather complain of bugs rather than fix them or pay for the effort. Not trusting uTorrent because of lackluster licensing is as foolish as not using a telephone because you don’t know who might be listening in on you.

    I find the only real reasons to prefer Azureus over uTorrent are Azureus plugins, or if you are truly paranoid about your software. If you want to assist a good open-source client, help the Transmission project. Azureus is already quite capable. If you are worried about “back doors” and such, well, learn how to blacklist IPs yourself, and try to be conscious about what torrent servers you utilise (or better yet, boycott the RIAA/MPAA and others by not wasting your bandwidth on so much of their worthless “entertainment”).

    31 Sep 08, 2006 at 10:41 by Eurekaguy4u

    Hi,
    Found utorrent best, but i give votes to Bitcomet. as sometimes i am unable to make connection with utorrent using our proxy server, but with Bitcomet it is a breeze.

    but for direct connection , found utorrent good.

    Eurekaguy4u

    32 Oct 02, 2006 at 23:03 by B2TM

    I still use BitTornado. I get upwards of 300+ KB/s off it, so it’s good enough for me. I never got that much with uTorrent or Azureus.

    33 Oct 04, 2006 at 18:44 by RiTarDid

    Very good review….helpful in choosing a client for my old secondary box.

    34 Oct 15, 2006 at 13:33 by Javed

    I hear a lot of praise for utorrent, but I am sorry to say that for most of the files, the logger reports a “piece No. bla-bla-bla failed hash check” meaning that files rarely get downloaded with full integrity. All this is very annoying. Imagine the frustration having to download a file of several gigs all over again because it failed to get downloaded properly. Why can’t these clients just repeat the download of just the defective piece till the hash value is ok? No bittorrent client, to my knowledge, satisfies this basic requirement. That is, the bit torrent client should make sure that every download, without exeception, is done is full integrity and should continue to replace the defective parts within the file until the whole thing is perfectly ok and the hash checksum is right. Any comments ?

    35 Oct 16, 2006 at 06:27 by kg

    I’ve been using ABC for quite awhile, and it’s worked great for me. I usually get speeds of about 250-300 KB/s, but have gotten above 400 KB/s. It does eat up lots of memory though.
    Javed, in regard to your issue, I know ABC automatically re-downloads pieces that fail hash check. I’d be very surprised if Azureus didn’t, as well.

    36 Oct 24, 2006 at 12:10 by Johny

    I don know why but in my win 200 server only Azurus works for download. uTorrent is having trouble finding ports and other. Cos I would be able to fix this if I do have a real IP or access to my router which I do not have. Any way I guess both should be good clients from these revieves.

    37 Oct 29, 2006 at 10:09 by steve

    azureus for all the nifty plugins such as Safepeer and Autospeed

    38 Nov 22, 2006 at 05:54 by Chris

    As much as I love utorrent, it doesn’t work for me.
    I believe it’s because it doesn’t like my router (WRT54G Linksys).
    They say to change this something or other (sorry, I’m a noob) but I researched further to find that changing this something or other file will void my warranty of the router.
    No ports = No downloads = A very sad me.

    I shall have to try this Azureus, at least until utorrent can have a safer fix.

    39 Nov 27, 2006 at 02:19 by Jacob

    utorrent is awesome
    I have had speeds up 800k/s with Roadrunner Cable. So as far as not getting fast download speeds i think that beats the wrap. I have had a a problem with it on my Win x64 but there isnt many programs I haven had problems with on this gay OS. Oh and for u Chris
    “They say to change this something or other (sorry, I’m a noob) but I researched further to find that changing this something or other file will void my warranty of the router.”
    Its called forwarding your port which I had to do also and should not void your warranty since it is a simple setting to apply on your router especially a Linksys.

    Ive used bittorrent before and still like that. My speeds were around the same and actually dont like all the confusing options that Azeurus offers. I would go back to bittorrent but i like the small footprint of utorrent. I recommend bittorrent for non Windows platforms.

    As stressed earlier ENABLE ENCRYPTION for those dang ISPs…..Cable One Sucks.

    40 Nov 27, 2006 at 02:27 by Jacob

    Forgot to mention, please download one torrent at a time, makes for much faster downloads and a better p2p network.
    Thank you.

    41 Dec 17, 2006 at 11:11 by Johnny

    I’ve used utorrent for over a year and i can remder dnld @ over 2.3mb/s you guys who are talking 300-400Kbs are slow get a faster internet conection. my average speed with Utorrent is 500Kbs. if you want faster dnld upld speed get a faster isp.

    42 Dec 20, 2006 at 10:23 by Teacher

    [quote comment="15495"]I hear a lot of praise for utorrent, but I am sorry to say that for most of the files, the logger reports a “piece No. bla-bla-bla failed hash check” meaning that files rarely get downloaded with full integrity. All this is very annoying. Imagine the frustration having to download a file of several gigs all over again because it failed to get downloaded properly. Why can’t these clients just repeat the download of just the defective piece till the hash value is ok? No bittorrent client, to my knowledge, satisfies this basic requirement. That is, the bit torrent client should make sure that every download, without exeception, is done is full integrity and should continue to replace the defective parts within the file until the whole thing is perfectly ok and the hash checksum is right. Any comments ?[/quote]
    Jave,
    You don’t have to re-download. For every failed hash in your log, the client re-requests that piece. The only time you would actually get a bad piece and keep it, is if you killed the torrent as soon as it reached 100% downloaded. this would usually mean you are leeching and not seeding. you can also stop the torrent. then do a check hash. in other words, utorrent is showing you the truth, while the others are hiding it.

    43 Dec 21, 2006 at 05:13 by João C. Morais

    I’ve honestly never used Artic Torrent before but why the bashing on this client?
    Of your “essential features” I only count 3 that are in fact essential for me and surely the majority of users: Prioritization (it’s misspelled btw), DHT and Super-Seeding, though I’ve only “used” DHT.
    For a lot of people the lack of this features isn’t even an issue. They simply want a program that works and makes it easy to pull stuff out from the tubes.
    Btw can you point me to one of your favorite rss feed? Because I’m wondering what type of content are you talking about that requires all those features from a client…

    44 Dec 28, 2006 at 02:19 by JoeHambro

    I am looking for a replacement for my Bittorrent (from original creators) 5.x because it has used up to around 400MB of mem and 400MB of virtual mem. It seems that each file I tried to share out would be loaded into memory. Well, I only have half a gig; so, that and a fairly high CPU requirement were killing my system performance. I’ll try out that uTorrent.

    45 Dec 31, 2006 at 10:36 by Steven

    why was original Bittorrent client not included ?
    in wikipedia comparison it looks fine too.

    46 Dec 31, 2006 at 14:01 by Ernesto

    [quote comment="34716"]why was original Bittorrent client not included ?
    in wikipedia comparison it looks fine too.[/quote]

    A quick comparison on these features shows us that only six clients (that I’m aware of) support more than half of the features. The mainline client was not among these 6.

    47 Jan 22, 2007 at 07:00 by ZISSOUF

    micro-torrent (aka utorrent) has been acquired by the **aa funded company run by Bram. So to all of those who poo-pooed the safety and security of open source software, all I have to say is: check your mail for your very own copyright lawsuit.

    Open source is more secure and safe then closed source, especially when the closed proggie is owned by a single virtually unknown individual. And unless you understand networking and have your system set up rock solidly, you really have no clue whats running in the background or what info is being sent over your ‘tubes’.

    cheers.

    48 Feb 14, 2007 at 22:15 by William

    I think µTorrent vs. Azureus is like opera vs. firefox – there is a group devoted to efficiency and speed ‘out of the box’, and another that likes plugins, customization (although opera’s just as skinnable, firefox has billions of community members making skins), and the warm and fuzzy feeling of free (as in speech) software.

    For linux, the fullest-featured would probably be kTorrent. Deluge is a promising looking client on the GTK side (with plugin support), and is in heavy development. For servers there is torrentflux, a web frontend to bittornado that has support for multiple users, permissions levels, and more.

    49 Mar 02, 2007 at 19:59 by looky the seer

    William, open you’re eyes and have a look at the post just above you’re head! uTorrent is unsafe! Azureus is open-source..

    Smells like you are using uTorrent too, suggest you deal with it, before it deals with you.

    Never use ‘closed source’ when open-source is available.

    50 Mar 27, 2007 at 23:36 by marc

    I have a dual boot machine and found the the clients that run on linux to run faster (on my machine) than those on windows. does windows have over head or a tweek that I need to consider to get full speed… or is the linux implementation the one of choice for me?

    amd 5000+ nvidia 430 chipset IP 2g ram
    running Vista vs Ubuntu

    51 Jun 27, 2007 at 07:38 by Dr. Azrael Tod

    i think i got pretty high standards refering to my clients and i too like uTorrent, its the only Client i would ever use on Windows.
    But what about the many other very nice Clients out there? For example rTorrent runs pretty fast (at last at lower Speed, it seems to consume a bit much ram at speeds >3MB/s)
    of course it doesn’t have the greatest interface (no gui, and it would have been nice if the author would have oriented a bit at existing console apps, maybe to create a mc-like-interface or something well-known like that)

    52 Jun 27, 2007 at 07:41 by Dr. Azrael Tod

    @marc:
    >>I have a dual boot machine and found the the clients that run on linux to run faster (on my machine) than those on windows. does windows have over head or a tweek that I need to consider to get full speed… or is the linux implementation the one of choice for me?
    >>

    maybe you have a slow firewall, i noticed sygate for example slowed my PC under windows extremely down if i got high torrent-speeds

    so i couldn’t get over 4MB/s at my Notebook for example

    53 Aug 19, 2007 at 05:04 by Graeme

    I would agree with uTorrent and Azureus being at the top of the list, except I think azureus takes the cake right now, the reason is that uTorrent has a bug which can end of using over a gig of ram (yeah I’m serious) it is quite possibly the worest memory leak I have ever seen. anyone a lot of people have that problem with. Sure it’s light weight when you open it, but not when you’re dling at 500KB

    54 Aug 19, 2007 at 05:05 by Graeme

    [quote comment="149044"]I would agree with uTorrent and Azureus being at the top of the list, except I think azureus takes the cake right now, the reason is that uTorrent has a bug which can end up using over a gig of ram (yeah I’m serious) it is quite possibly the worest memory leak I have ever seen. anyone a lot of people have that problem with. Sure it’s light weight when you open it, but not when you’re dling at 500KB[/quote]

    55 Aug 23, 2007 at 01:16 by scank

    I used azureus for ages and it was good but running any app in jre for any elongated period is like driving blindfolded, youre going to crash.
    I would prefer if pico-torrent were open source but i can understand his reasoning behind it. The moment it were released warez sites would pop up offering cloned shite! utorrent has never given me a moments bother, I recommend it.

    56 Aug 23, 2007 at 01:18 by scank

    sorry should read
    jre and windows
    (measure twice, cut once)

    57 Aug 27, 2007 at 02:36 by timb

    Graeme, I can’t say I’ve ever seen that. I’m currently downloading at nearly 300KB/s and uTorrent (1.6.1) is using 15MB. I’ll upgrade to 1.7.2 when I get a chance.

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    59 Sep 15, 2007 at 01:55 by Adam

    Found all this very helpful. We have recently upgraded to ADSL. We have always liked shadows experimental but even after days of messing round with port fwding have gotten nowhere it still says firewalled. So guess were up for a new client. tried upgrading to bittornado seemed to not like image files and shortly ended up in recycle bin we tried the new Get-Torrent- great speed but no hash check and ultimately ended up with a completed download with pieces missing, which we had to re download from scratch with shadows experimental again. We had a brief fling with uTorrent and now that we are having hassles with ADSL shadows experimental combo, may have to again. Hopefully this has the ability to upload and check data off your hard drive each time like shadows experimental. This is a fantastic feature. Hash check is a good start but i want a client that checks existing data each time it opens up besides the shadows experimental which i love but give up on running under ADSL lol. Anyone got any ideas please?

    60 Sep 15, 2007 at 09:51 by Sujit

    u torrent is the best..try wyzo too
    u guyz may like it..its a browser and a bittorent client…

    anyhow utorrent gets my VoTE…..
    cheerz :)

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    66 Dec 11, 2007 at 11:50 by rodbenson

    BitComet is the best for me

    67 Dec 15, 2007 at 21:02 by TBAly

    I prefer bitcomet specially 0.70

    68 Dec 22, 2007 at 07:16 by Zaff

    Utorrent is best for its give me around 900kb speeds when i Enable Encryption

    69 Jan 20, 2008 at 21:54 by phil

    BitTyrant ladies, BitTyrant.

    70 Jan 26, 2008 at 00:33 by jose

    come on, azureus may be GPL, but it’s shit software. GIANT memory leak, and the use of java contributes a lot. worst client ever.

    71 Jan 30, 2008 at 16:23 by Ziba

    I use both uTorrent and BitComet.
    And BitComet became the default after some time for the exact same reason why it was banned by some trackers: Because it can find alternate resources for some private torrents….
    I am a user who dislike to associate myself to numerous forums and communities. Too many accounts, password and spams. The collection in each private forum are small with only one thing I need during the lifespam of their site. And I am very strict to releasing items only to the people I know in real life.
    So I opt for leaks to DHT, and BC works better in this field than uT.
    So uT became my choice when the private tracker rejects BC (They usually do) and I absolute need to register/download the thing. (I usually give up if the DL are not must and BC can’t find 100% resource unless I register)

    I hate register :(

    72 Feb 29, 2008 at 04:16 by Jumbo

    @ itzme
    uTorrent “alternative” for Linux :
    Deluge.
    Fast,simple,stable,plugin support.

    (Yes, I know that Deluge is cross-platform)

    73 Mar 02, 2008 at 00:25 by nathan9

    can all BT client download the same file from different trackers? is that the norm now cause its not in the requirement thing on the top? if it is not can anyone tell me if abc supports that function. i know microterrent does.

    74 Mar 05, 2008 at 13:30 by video pquer portal web

    intractability.Huntley crops tough,Mueller – Tons of interesdting stuff!!!

    75 Mar 07, 2008 at 11:50 by p

    Moved to uTorrent from BitComet. Been using it for the last 3 months. uTorrent is definitely much slower at downloads – especially if you have more than 5 torrents on the go at once. It has also managed to crash my pc (blue screen) several times – it would appear that if you give it a decent number of torrents to handle at one time (like >10!) ti just doesnt know what to do.

    I’m going back to BitComet tonight.

    … And dont mention Azureus why would i want to run slow java code when i could run native code on windows. If your running Linux, well thats a different matter…

    76 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:46 by click here

    nonstandard coherently!recomputes virtue fashioned.unloaded.

    77 Mar 25, 2008 at 21:10 by Etherdose

    Utorrent… um…. you guys arent really savy on the whole torrent scene are you?? Did you notice that they signed agreements with some of the game and film companies? I have read dozens of articles on how this happened, and as soon as I installed utorrent, (from using Azureus or Bitcomet..) I got a lovely letter from the game industry via my IP. I was using Peer guardian 2 and I don’t think it made much of a difference.

    Just a word to the wise….

    78 Apr 02, 2008 at 15:02 by Anonymous

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    79 Apr 06, 2008 at 06:05 by NextelFoe

    Tanks for the review. I agree.

    80 May 10, 2008 at 02:36 by Anonymous

    Go Artic!

    81 May 12, 2008 at 21:49 by torrent

    is there a difference between bittorrent and µtorrent?

    82 May 21, 2008 at 07:07 by oVo REBORN!

    i personaly use azureus as it has a lot of great features and i think it looks more “user friendly” than utorrent or any other,but youre al right in that it eats cpu like hell but with 5GB ram that isint a problem for me,and i also get up to 200 kb/s in azureus which is the higest ive ever got in my life in any bittorrent client(that speed was just from a random torrent of the net not from vuze content which has 150 kb/s reguraly)

    83 May 22, 2008 at 13:56 by gioco online dadi

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    84 Jun 29, 2008 at 20:14 by les meilleurs jeux en ligne

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    85 Jul 21, 2008 at 20:36 by Anonymous

    communications,embarked beast Waveland audible,unenlightening warmer:

    86 Jul 22, 2008 at 08:42 by Anonymous

    calypso MITREs retentions steps Burmese!…

    87 Aug 04, 2008 at 07:53 by peeyush pankaj

    i think bit comet is best.

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