Comments on: BitTorrent Client Comparison

By: peeyush pankaj

peeyush pankaj — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:53:39 +0000

i think bit comet is best.

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By: oVo REBORN!

oVo REBORN! — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:07:59 +0000

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)

By: torrent

torrent — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:49:28 +0000

is there a difference between bittorrent and Âµtorrent?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:36:36 +0000

Go Artic!

By: NextelFoe

NextelFoe — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:05:05 +0000

Tanks for the review. I agree.

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By: Etherdose

Etherdose — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:10:11 +0000

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….

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By: p

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:50:14 +0000

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…

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By: nathan9

nathan9 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:25:04 +0000

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.

By: Jumbo

Jumbo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:16:23 +0000

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

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

By: Ziba

Ziba — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:23:45 +0000

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 :(

By: jose

jose — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:33:06 +0000

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.

By: phil

phil — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:54:36 +0000

BitTyrant ladies, BitTyrant.

By: Zaff

Zaff — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:16:41 +0000

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

By: TBAly

TBAly — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:02:26 +0000

I prefer bitcomet specially 0.70

By: rodbenson

rodbenson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:50:17 +0000

BitComet is the best for me

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By: Sujit

Sujit — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:51:42 +0000

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 :)

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:55:21 +0000

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?

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By: timb

timb — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:36:12 +0000

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.

By: scank

scank — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:18:24 +0000

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

By: scank

scank — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:16:11 +0000

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.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:05:35 +0000

[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]

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:04:58 +0000

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

By: Dr. Azrael Tod

Dr. Azrael Tod — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:41:32 +0000

@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 speedâ€¦ 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

By: Dr. Azrael Tod

Dr. Azrael Tod — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:38:14 +0000

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)

By: marc

marc — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:36:11 +0000

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

By: looky the seer

looky the seer — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:59:44 +0000

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.

By: William

William — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:15:05 +0000

I think ÂµTorrent 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.

By: ZISSOUF

ZISSOUF — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:00:25 +0000

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.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:01:29 +0000

[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.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:36:24 +0000

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

By: JoeHambro

JoeHambro — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:19:36 +0000

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.

By: JoÃ£o C. Morais

JoÃ£o C. Morais — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:13:13 +0000

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…

By: Teacher

Teacher — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:23:18 +0000

[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.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:11:42 +0000

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.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:27:58 +0000

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

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:19:03 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:54:05 +0000

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.