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1 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:00 by SuperGeek

That sucks, I love Azureus.

2 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:03 by Atriox

uTorrent clearly pwns
but these charts are inaccurate because most people who do online virus scans are computer illiterate

3 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:04 by Anthony to the S.

Limewire has been slipping up ALOT lately. I personally miss Kazaa.

http://paidandpopular.blogspot.com

4 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:05 by Pistol

[quote comment="240747"]uTorrent clearly pwns
but these charts are inaccurate because most people who do online virus scans are computer illiterate[/quote]

agreed.

5 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:08 by Brian

The functionality of Azureus is pretty damn good, but, Java is a memory/cpu hog and needs to be replaced.

I just wish more people would use better clients, the original Bittorrent program is pretty pathetic in terms of functionality. Just proves that even though, the protocol was made by the same people, it doesn’t mean its the best client.

6 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:09 by mon

i was really glad when the newest version of utorrent came out. my computer has never liked java.. the system clock goes absolutely nuts whenever its running.

7 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:11 by mon

or, not the newest, but the stable 1.0 2+ years ago

8 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:13 by The 1# problem with Azureus

I use Azureus Bit Tyrant version 2.5 MINUS the ‘Vuse content layer’.
The so-called ‘Vuse content layer’ is nothing more than adware and spyware that uses EVEN MORE resources, plus, it slows the application down. I will never install the ‘Vuse content layer’ period. I tried it once BC it was an update, but rolled AZ back. Its a horrible interface too, they simply try and sell people stuff. If Azureus is third thats the reason.

9 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:13 by James.

The latest Azureus is just terrible.

uTorrent does all you want without all the crap you don’t want ;)

10 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:18 by James Rowland

Personally, I only use bitTorrent because of the masses of content available on it.

I find the gnutella network to be faster, less restrictive, and less restricted. Except that it limits search results to those of perhaps one or two dozen hosts, which sucks.

If it could troll a few hundred thou, or even mill, other boxes than you could get entire (open-copyright) seasons and albums just as easy as Torrent - and you wouldn’t need to down the whole thing; just what you want.

:) yeah yeah, I know. wrong place. anybody know where there’s a newspot even half as good as Torrentfreak, but for gnutella? (honest question)

11 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:24 by lhr

uTorrent beats Azureus hands down - the only reason I’m using Azureus is because there isn’t a Linux version of uTorrent. If there was, I would switch right away. But KTorrent has been getting better, so I might have to switch to that. There’s no doubt that Azureus/Java hogs RAM and CPU cycles, something that must be pretty detrimental to its popularity.

12 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:49 by UncertainGod

I’m on Kubuntu and I use uTorrent through WINE, why? Because it is so much better than all the other clients out there that I don’t mind a little delay when I start it up. It’s not as if I ever close it anyway.

13 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:49 by blah

Uh, James, you don’t need to “down the whole thing” with bittorrent either. Seasons are usually just file folders of single episodes and any good bittorrent client will let you select which of the files/episodes you want to download. That said I think uTorrent is the best, and I’ll miss it when I move to the mac.

14 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:51 by wtf

Find a definitive benchmark of what people are using on their pc’s and it may hold some water. Using one websites statistics on what people have installed doesnt really count for anything. From a personal standpoint, I cant stand utorrent. Its like the tonka toy of bittorrent in its simplicity, which may be fine for some people. Sure Azureus uses a good chunk of RAM, at least 100mb, and 0-2% of cpu, but thats what they are there for. If you spent all your time bitching about what applications are using what ammount of resources you’d get nothing done. Being as I deal with people using bittorent on a daily basis in a support role, I deal with far more people having problems with utorrent than Azureus, perhaps Azureus users are slightly more adept than utorrent with the main problems stemming from Azureus being lack of knowledge on the users part. Most of which cant even figure out how to set it up. For those people then the simpler utorrent is more at their level of understanding. One thing that lets utorrent down significantly is its complete lack of peer banning. As an example, U didnt have a torrent client installed at one point and rather than have to set up Az for a single download I opted for utorrent. An hour later and 60 hash fails I still had sod all. So I went and grabbed Azureus, set it up and completed the download in 8 minutes, with 3 hash fails and 6 peers banned for sending bad data. For that reason alone utorrent will never be as good as Azureus.

15 Dec 17, 2007 at 00:52 by Kevin

I use Azureus but all my friends I try and teach all use uTorrent. It’s just much more simple to comprehend. Port forwarding for example can be a nightmare in anything but uTorrent. The plug-ins for Azureus are pretty nice, that’y the major point missing in uTorrent imo.

16 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:02 by enigmax

Cheers!

17 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:03 by 2600

Funny that most of the people running utorrent use an online virus scan and give the website carte blanche to connect to their pc and audit their system. That’s scary.

18 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:12 by Erhan

µTorrent is by far the best torrent program I’ve ever used. It eats so little memory you barely notice it working. With Azureus it’s like trying to run two games at once. It has some nice touches (like all those neat pictures) but µTorrent does everything I NEED it to do.

19 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:12 by James.

The downfall of apps. usually is from being over bloated. I mean what the hell is this vuse or muse or vise whatever the hell they call it.

It’s not needed. It’s BT, and most people just want a client that handles torrents, does it well, and that’s all.

same reason i stick with Winamp. It plays mp3’s etc. It’s not an over bloated piece of garbage like Windows media player.

Why make thinks overly complicated when the basic function is all you need?

As quoted by one smart individual.

=Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler
— Albert Einstein

20 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:28 by 123132

What version of utorrent u guys use

21 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:31 by Don

Vuze isn’t a good thing, and I certainly think that Azureus should use less resources, but it’s got two things that make it far better then uTorrent;

It’s multi-platform and it’s open source.

I don’t use the piece of filth that is Windows so I don’t use uTorrent. I’d also rather the source code be known to the world.

[quote]Port forwarding for example can be a nightmare in anything but uTorrent.[/quote]

What are you talking about? It’s simple in Azureus.

First, set it to forward on your router.

Second, go to Tools then Connection and set the port there.

Simple.

22 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:35 by Ken

Once I switched from Azureus to uTorrent because I accidentally upgraded to Azureus with Vuze. It worked fine for a while until one time for some unknown reason it kept on opening too many ports and froze my computer. I had to uninstall uTorrent and find a 2.5 version of Azureus on the net. Now Azureus updates without the Vuze and I’m really happy using it.

23 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:37 by booga1134

Azureus made any computer it ran on slow, like norton did when it would scan. If I set uTorrent right, I can surf teh internets and shoop pics and not notice a slow down on performance.

24 Dec 17, 2007 at 01:44 by Kevin

I guess I take back the port forwarding Azureus night mare comment back. It’s just definitely more easy in uTorrent than Azureus imo.

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