Comments on: Halite, a Fast and Lightweight BitTorrent Client

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:53:21 +0000

Aug 01, 2008 at 19:22 by Anonymous

then you probably run it in default setup with the local peer discovery active and unlimited local peer bandwith exchange that it trashed your LAN.

And when you have run the setup wizard at first start and choose the correct value for your bandwith it will not take over all your bandwith.
Oh, and ÂµT gives fairly exact control how much bandwith to use. You must enter the value’s you want.

Pebkac is not the programs fault!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:22:15 +0000

For those who like uTorrent, I tried it and it ATE my system resources, plus, it kept shutting down my LAN! As far as I am concerned, uTorrent is junk! I am looking for something that will NOT trash my LAN by taking over ALL the bandwidth without giving ME some control. I would rather wait a few extra minutes or even hours than cut my kids off in the middle of a dungeon – THAT is just RUDE.

By: war59312

war59312 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:21:24 +0000

Utorrent uses 4,564k of memory on average. Not 10,000k!

By: elgnub

elgnub — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:08:17 +0000

utorrent till i die!! =P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:38:59 +0000

so is that mineral client able to run so nicely selfcontained in one dir only like Âµt can do from a USB stick for example, or does it spill some files all over the system no matter what?

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:27:42 +0000

Hmm i’m going to have to try this later.

By: jimbo 222

jimbo 222 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:12:29 +0000

im gonna get this just cuz of the irish connection, hope the sites i use have no compatability issues.

however from the exploits of utorrent 1.6 id rather leave alone for a week or two…..

big up eoin o callaghan

By: Apocrypha

Apocrypha — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:45:11 +0000

I’ve used Halite quite abit, and of course it’s great that this stuff comes out especially as it’s open-source. From what I can tell from all my use of it is that it’s not so resource friendly as first thought, I’ve seen Halite use about 30Mb of RAM, plus I love the Auto Shutdown feature of uTorrent, something Halite lacks. So I’ve decided to start using uTorrent 1.6 Build 474 (this being the last release before uTorrent was bought out).

But I do applaud Halite for filling a gap which was once filled, but I just don’t see (at the moment) why anyone would use this over uTorrent 1.6 Build 474.

By: Amarnath Wanchoo

Amarnath Wanchoo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:44:09 +0000

The latest version 1.7.7 of uTorrent (214 Kb only in size) works perfectly and better than 1.61. To me there seems no reason to keep using version 1.61.

That said, I downloaded Halite 0.3.1 (2.47 megs)and tried it. It is very good indeed but I find that uTorrent is still the numero uno.

By: Bacon

Bacon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:10:42 +0000

Ummm, is that really the whole article? Which platforms does this client run on?