uTorrent Userbase Grows, Vuze takes a Dive

Written by Ernesto on October 18, 2009 

Fresh data on the market share of BitTorrent clients shows that uTorrent remains the client of choice for over 60% of all BitTorrent users. Vuze is in second place, but its market share has dropped to 14%. Transmission, on the other hand, continues to gain ground, with the client’s market share increasing by 23% in the last two months.

utorrentBitTorrent is by far the leading file-sharing technology, with millions of people using the protocol every day. Every two months we take a look at the market share of various BitTorrent clients to see if there are interesting trends emerging.

Today’s report is based on data from over 17,221 unique users in a few dozen public BitTorrent swarms, collected by the Tribler P2P research team at Delft University of Technology.

The results in the table below show the market share for each individual client. In common with our previous reports, only 5 clients reached the 1% threshold, the remaining 14 that were encountered are grouped in the ‘other’ category. Some clients were not identified by libTorrent (rakshasa) and those ended up in the unknown ‘category’.

The changes in market share compared to our September report are also included, and these show some interesting trends. First of all, uTorrent extended its user base and now has a massive 60 percent market share. Vuze, BitComet and BitTorrent’s Mainline client all lost market share.

Transmission, on the other hand, keeps on growing. Its market share increased 23 percent and might take over BitComet’s fourth place soon. More on this in our December report.

BitTorrent Client Market Share, October 2009
Ranking Client Market Share % Change % Platform
torrentfreak.com
1 uTorrent 60.16% +5.90% Windows, Mac
2 Vuze 14.22% -21.56% Windows, Mac, Linux
3 BitTorrent Mainline 8.65% -26.63% Windows, Mac, Linux
4 BitComet 4.43% -5.95% Windows
5 Transmission 3.65% +23.73% Mac, Linux
* Unknown 7.97% +89.31% na.
* Other 0.92% -34.29% na.

Previously: TV Boss Set To Drop A File-Sharing Bomb On Digital Britain

Next: 70% of British Public Oppose Disconnecting File-Sharers

145 Responses

1 Oct 18, 2009 at 22:56 by Joepke

1st

2 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:02 by phax

rtorrent ++

3 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:04 by www.eZee.se

utorrent… always.

Used to use others, but after getting this, never going back.

4 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:04 by Cazman

I use Utorrent all the time, it was recommended by a friend, and has worked fine for me. ATM my torrent files wont download, I think my ISP has done something….

5 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:07 by au

I use uTorrent, Vuze appears to be too bloated.

6 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:07 by Rabbit80

“Its market share increased to 23 percent” – erm – no it didn’t… It climbed BY 23 percent to 3.65 percent according to your chart!

TF: “to” wasn’t supposed to be there, thanks…

7 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:23 by chillienet

I used to use azureus but when it turned to vuze it bloated my system, stole too much memory, and crashed to many times.

uTorrent is just easier and more stable.

8 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:25 by Swopyl

Deluge = uTorrent Linux/GTk style

9 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:39 by ....

Transmission FTW

10 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:44 by Pants

I’ve been using Deluge for a long time, but it looks like Transmission has been getting a lot better recently. It was total crap a year ago.

11 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:45 by Lothor The Evil

I’ve been using U-Torrent since 2006. Almost 3 years now.

12 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:50 by Anonymous

I used to use Vuze previously, but now it is way too bloated. I have now switched to uTorrent since it does the job and isn’t in the way.

13 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:52 by Det

This isn’t surprising. Vuze/Azureus is quite simply too bloated for the job it performs on Windows-based systems.

I switched to uTorrent year ago, and there’s no way (status quo) that I’ll even consider Vuze.

14 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:54 by Dave

I’m a big rTorrent fan. It works well on a headless box and means I can dump torrent files in a folder and it’ll get going. Then when complete add the files to another folder. It means I can script most of my downloading and file management/organisation.

15 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:55 by Anon

Deluge or Utorrent. Everything else sucks.
Vuze is a massive resource hog

16 Oct 18, 2009 at 23:57 by Anonymous

I think the change percentage should be in absolute terms, not actual change of the percentage value itself.
It would help us understand more where market share was transferred.

17 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:05 by SirReal

I use uTorrent because it is so incredibly lightweight, size and resource wise.

18 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:09 by Mhsu

uTorrent on Windows
Transmission on Mac and Linux.

19 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:19 by Catalyst

uTorrent works just great on Linux too if you want the same client across all platforms. Just use Wine.

20 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:25 by Silver

@19
Agreed, alot of linux users run utorrent using wine.

21 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:26 by Gordon

Vuze kicks uTorrent’s ass and will forever continue to do so.

22 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:31 by Anonymous

uTorrent isn’t opensource but Vuze is such a huge fiasco… I prefer Transmission (Simple. Free. Open.) ;-)

23 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:32 by Cardinals

@21
Kicks its ass in being bloated?

24 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:36 by mattlohkamp

I used to use uTorrent, but there was one point where it just wasn’t working for me – I don’t know if it was a glitch, something about my system at the time, a fluke, or what – I switched over to Azureus, and stuck with it through Vuze, and I’m still okay with that. If Vuze starts messing up, uTorrent will be first on my list of replacements, but for the time being, no complaints, oddly enough.

25 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:43 by dudule's truck

hardcore torrenters use deluge, not better but quite more hype than ut

26 Oct 19, 2009 at 00:44 by cca

I’ve tried Transmission, but I really, vastly prefer Deluge when using Linux.

27 Oct 19, 2009 at 01:01 by Torrenttutorials.com

I use uTorrent on linux.

28 Oct 19, 2009 at 01:01 by DfizzleShizzle

uTorrent all the way

29 Oct 19, 2009 at 01:05 by Yatti420

Go Utorrent.. Every1 check out the utorrent 2.0 beta.. Pretty stable now.. Use it!.. bt.transp.disp = 255 | Forced encryption | Install IPV6 | ..

30 Oct 19, 2009 at 01:29 by brizzl

Transmission daemon on a small linux box, I love it. If you want it even more “boxed”:

http://www.freenas.org/

31 Oct 19, 2009 at 01:37 by Ad

No surprise, Azureus (alright, Vuze or whatever they want to call it) is a resource hog. Used to swear by it until I got sick of it slowing my computer down to a crawl all the time – switched to uTorrent & won’t ever go back.

32 Oct 19, 2009 at 01:56 by Em

I have to laugh at all the Azureus haters!

Bloated… resource hog… LOL

Nevermind that all the resource management is done by Sun’s sh!tty Java Runtime Environment.

I was a satisfied Azureus user (that’s the name of the core), but on 7 x64 the damn JRE was to messy. In 4 to 5 hours it would eat up all the free RAM, that would be 1.3 GB without any way of recovering it. Not once did that happen on XP! And other java apps like jDownloader suffer form this as well.

About Az being bloated… no! It has a pretty well designed plugin system, a lot of them can be disabled or removed. And the interface set in classic mode is pretty simple to operate. It rarely crashed; like 10 times in 3 years of torrenting.

But sadly… java is getting worse and worse by the day. Good thing uTorrent is well done.

So FTW uTorrent!

And wow for BitComet!… that means 4.43% of torrenters are suckers!

33 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:00 by Anonymous

rtorrent ftw

34 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:00 by Annie Moose

I’m not really surprised- the vast majority of people new to torrenting have probably only heard of uTorrent. I know I heard of uTorrent long before I ever knew about Vuze or any other BitTorrent client. And now that I do know about other clients, well, uTorrent works fine for me, so I’ve got no real reason to switch.

35 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:11 by J.B. Nicholson-Owens

utorrent is proprietary software. Only its programmers know what else it does while it runs. Better to retain control of your computer and use a free software Bittorrent client so you can benefit from software freedom to inspect the program’s complete source code or let the community do that for you.

36 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:16 by kalleball

perl-script catching new releases using a regex-filter from the announcebot on irc -> rtorrent -> unrar-script extracting into dated folders -> profit.

37 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:27 by Cujo

azureus and xp through a vpn ,, quad core ;)

38 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:43 by Dan

Azuerus used to be the best but i think people like utorrent now because it uses very little ram. Plus Vuse sucks nowadays, i liked Azuerus version 2 but that’s long gone. It was good because you could block leechers :D

Btw im running it on a 1.4ghz 256mb ram pc so i need something that wont lagg it up.

39 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:45 by wilberfan

Can I hear an “amen” for ktorrent?? Anyone…? I’m a big fan…

40 Oct 19, 2009 at 02:47 by X-Pirate

What is Reasoned Mind using then?

41 Oct 19, 2009 at 03:01 by Raisin Brain

@40 He works for the MPAA. Ask them.

42 Oct 19, 2009 at 03:07 by CDXX

I miss the old Azureus… It was 1000 times better than Vuze. The only thing I like about Vuze now is… well… the fact that I already know how to run it to it’s full potential. I’ve been meaning to find a new client ever since Vuze came out, but I’m just to lazy…

A little idea off topic:
You should start posting the IP addresses and any other info you can acquire of the fags that comment with “1st.” Or at least put “Fag” or another degrading comment next to their name… It’s f*cking annoying…

43 Oct 19, 2009 at 03:11 by anon

Anything + Java = bloatware

44 Oct 19, 2009 at 03:24 by Benny

i say down with utorrent… lets get something good enough to compete against utorrent! i see complications in the future if we keep using utorrent…. somebody get something awesome out there so we can drop utorrent and go for a better open source alternative…

45 Oct 19, 2009 at 03:36 by Karai

Azereus -> BitComet -> uTorrent

46 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:06 by PirLog.com

utorrent will surely grow more. Vuze is now useless because of its un-needed additions. Transmission will also grow as its now being largely used in Bittorrent Hardwares.

http://Pirlog.com

47 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:08 by Xcel

@42 You can still run any version of AZ that you want http://www.oldversion.com/Azureus.html

Also, ROFL!!
A little idea off topic:
You should start posting the IP addresses and any other info you can acquire of the fags that comment with “1st.” Or at least put “Fag” or another degrading comment next to their name… It’s f*cking annoying…

My thoughts *Exactly*

Btw, Azureus All the F-king way!…
Utorrent is fine, but the frog kiks ass, always has, and even with the Vusee version you dont havve to run the Vuze UI, I dont, (of course I dont run the current version either LoL)

I have nothing bad to say about Utorrent, I havve used it and its fine, I just Prefer AZ…

48 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:09 by Sony Jacobs

OMG dude, no way that is just totally insane dude.

RT
http://www.anonymous.ua.tc

49 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:12 by DiarRIAA

Yes!! I love uTorrent for stealing copyrighted files! (there…that should incense reasoned tard)

50 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:18 by Jamesy

Vuze is fail, end of discussion. uTorrent on Windows, rTorrent on OSX/Linux.

51 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:19 by lluks

I used to use utorrent and azureus at the same time. utorrent to download and azureus to seed. Stopped useing utorrent when I coudn’t manualy update the tracker. Now a hacked version of vuze is all I need. I use the classic UI and love it. Vuze FTW!

52 Oct 19, 2009 at 04:41 by Ebumboo

God bless P2P, apple pie, and harmoniums.

53 Oct 19, 2009 at 05:20 by fs

“a few dozen public bittorrent swarms”?

Come on, that sample size is way too low. Do a couple hundred at the very least, pick the most popular torrents from isohunt or something. This doesn’t measure anything.

54 Oct 19, 2009 at 05:35 by yes.

uTorrent, and Deluge only plz

55 Oct 19, 2009 at 05:52 by Anonymous

What strikes me is transmission being even in the list.

I like Transmission even tough I use Deluge but I’m well aware of the Linux market penetration and it is not that high and it to command that much market share already is very impressive. Well at least to me.

So either those are very localized numbers or Linux has seen some very rapidly growth in the market.

56 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:09 by JCL

I used to use azureus, then vuze, but for a while it broke and was way too clunky so I started using transmission on the mac side and utorrent on the PC side and have never looked back.

57 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:12 by lol

utorrent for a fast small client with ALL the extras.

vuze is good but its too large for my taste..

58 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:13 by Armorus

only 17000 users? out of millions?

59 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:14 by J

uTorrent = epic win.

60 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:21 by samantha

I use myteev.com

61 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:21 by Anonymous

vuze did it to themselves

62 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:23 by Zac

I started using Transmission mainly because it’s default in Ubuntu. I now have the latest Transmission for my Ubuntu 8.04 (from the PPA in launchpad) and it performs extremely well.

Transmission has definately improved over the last year and a half. Recommended.

63 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:38 by Anonymous

I used to use Azureus, it was great, then it merged with Vuze and turned into crap, no I just use utorrent.

64 Oct 19, 2009 at 06:39 by knux

I personally liked the plug in system of Vuze but switched to Utorrent at the end of my torrenting days… Haven’t used anything for a while now… DDL ftw.

65 Oct 19, 2009 at 07:11 by R

uTorrent is the best client around, even on Linux where it has to run via WINE.

66 Oct 19, 2009 at 07:30 by iRIAAnutsuck

utorrent 2.0 has WINE support I think..

67 Oct 19, 2009 at 07:48 by omfg

transmission – runs on linux

68 Oct 19, 2009 at 07:50 by remind easond

I dont use peer to peer because its stealing… *downloads stuff when no one is looking*

69 Oct 19, 2009 at 08:20 by Redeemer

Utorrent on windows.
rtorrent or deluge on linux.

I don’t use VUZE, but I think its the only bittorrent app supporting SSL trackers.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/faq.php#19

70 Oct 19, 2009 at 08:35 by NoOne

By the way, the EULA of Vuze contradicts the GNU GPL. Is it still an open source/free software project?

71 Oct 19, 2009 at 08:36 by pan_2@LJ

utorrent is good then you need dload something somewhere.
but if you need some control about your downloads/seeds use Azureus/Vuze.

And to shitheads crying for ”bloatness” – did you bother to find what Vuze is VERY simply turns back to Azureus 2.4.xx style?

72 Oct 19, 2009 at 09:00 by Jasper100

utorrent of course ROCKS!

mpaa get real!

73 Oct 19, 2009 at 09:14 by aSD

anybody can download from piratebay rightnow?I can get in , search and see torrents but download button don’t works

74 Oct 19, 2009 at 09:27 by Freaky

Nice stats i think the increase of uTorrent comes from the increase of users not from a shift of trend.

Its obvious why uTorrent is the best for the newbies between the torrenters as i recommend it to anyone new to the torrenting business.

I use uTorrent if i want to get something quick on someone’s machine.Then i set it up for ease of use for them.

At home i can not live without Vuze since the upgrade from Azureus it runs for me about 300% faster then before and i get the critical 100 options i need to fully customize ratio keeping on several trackers. When you have 500+ torrents running at one time seeding on several trackers its impossible to keep track on spreading your UL automatically to where you need it.Then custom RSS feeds with Regular Expression filters and being able to save files in side the torrent in different locations to suit your archiving schema.

What these stats reflect to me is that a lot of new people joined the P2P community hence uTorrent is the best choice. When they go pro they’ll switch to Vuze if they are on Windows also Vuze is not bloated for the Pro only for the newbies who i cannot blame for that claim for them its like rocket science.

75 Oct 19, 2009 at 09:35 by redbaron

Happy to see uTorrent is before Vuze. Vuze offers better control but needs way too much power to run (not to mention the existance of a COMMERCIAL portable version :X ).
For Linux Transmission and Deluge (almost the same as uTorrent but for Linux) are the best.

76 Oct 19, 2009 at 09:41 by silverfox

Another Azureus->uTorrent switcher. Wish I would have done it earlier.

77 Oct 19, 2009 at 09:51 by time traveling white rabbit

utorrent for 3 years now…im never paying for anything again!

78 Oct 19, 2009 at 10:32 by Anonymous

I started using vuze since august I like the vuze HD network alot I used utorrent before switching over but im not really happy with it.

79 Oct 19, 2009 at 10:36 by Kickass_Sid

uTorrent rocks!

80 Oct 19, 2009 at 10:39 by milkcow

Utorrent users careful now…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent,_Inc.
They own Utorrent who own you.Open software is a must in this game.Old info but good info…Azureus 2.5.0.4

81 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:03 by Sanderman

I’ve been using Azureus/Vuze for a long time. I like it because it is extremely flexible. There’s tons of settings you can tweak to make sure it does exactly what you need. Moreso than any other gui client I’m aware of. For the rest, there’s a ton of plugins.

I don’t notice any large memory or cpu consumption as others seem to experience. Did you ever try to disable plugins you don’t need?

82 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:16 by MM

@74

A little condescending, don’t you think? I’ve been using utorrent for more than 4 years, so I’m not a new user, and have no plans to switch.

I have given azureus (and vuze) a shot on a couple of occasions and it only took me a couple of hours to delete it and run back to utorrent.

83 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:21 by King.Hooper

i love vuze i’ve never had it crash, never had it eat memory or lag me up. maybe it has something to do with my computer:

8 gigs ram
quad core 64bit AMD cpu
2X512 vid cards
1000watt psu
windows vista 64bit

and the built in “anti throttling” software in vuze is genuinely consistent. I always download faster than my brother (he uses micro torrent) on the same internet connection.

PLUS i love the built in conversion software for my xbox 360 and ipods.

84 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:23 by King.Hooper

oh i forgot to mention RSS feeds and built in search function. I NEVER have to go on a torrent site… EVER. Everything i want to download comes to me!

85 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:26 by I2P User

I wish there was an I2P port.

86 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:28 by I2P User

I wish uTorrent had I2P functionality built into it.

87 Oct 19, 2009 at 11:54 by AnarchyNow

utorrent sucks, it’s windoze-only, close-source and it’s gonna be the end for bittorrent

88 Oct 19, 2009 at 12:15 by PaxDeltaPan

Indeed.

A lot of people do defer to Utorrent because it’s C++ not system hungry Java machines.

But! I’ve only got a 1.2Mbit wire connection so tend to down at a max 140 and average top of 122kbps.

I find the throttle features on Azureus/Vuse help me balance up/down rates, limiting up to 15kbps while downloading helps keep available swarm speed max’d out.

But above all, Azureus has *Kick & Ban* ability not present in Utorrent.

This is handy because i find download manager hybrids, Flashget etc, compromise my speeds, Utorrent beta, Transmission and many others also seem to cluster and kill my download speed, i kick them and my speeds return, i keep to mainly Utorrent and Azureus connecting, i get full available speeds, i let others connect and my downloads get killed, more often than not.

Not all BT clients do it and among those that do not all those are aggressive, i’ve studied these buggers in Azureus a long time now and it’s how users configure their browsers and default settings etc, so the ability to occasionally disable-enable the IP filter to allow all connections again is handy because as i kick and ban to get my speeds decent some clients will not actually be aggressive but in the cluster i boot off.

So, yes, Utorrent is a decent client but i know a lot of users get strangled as well with aggressive clients connecting and i have minimal speeds so Azureus is the only client which makes sense on the aforementioned level.

but man, Utorrent will never cut it for functionality, UI and configurabity in my humble opinion.

BT client developers should focus on keeping a standard in BT FTP tech’ not introduce aggressive elements to make it seem their client has an edge over competitors, they haven’t only settings by default or there as configurable for users to purposefully ramp up over other connecting clients in swarms, as per Bit Comet, one of the first to do that and why every private tracker bans it, same as the others, it’s ruddy annoying.

Azureus is superior in such an aggressive swarm climate!

Peace!

PaxDeltaPan.
Enlightened Evolution.
Tempered From The Chaotic Forge Of Life.

89 Oct 19, 2009 at 12:30 by PaxDeltaPan

Client came out as browser in the middle there, i meamnt cleint obviously.

“i’ve studied these buggers in Azureus a long time now and it’s how users configure their browsers and default settings etc”

Dunno where that came from, doh.

PaxDeltaPan.
Enlightened Evolution.
Tempered From The Chaotic Forge Of Life.

90 Oct 19, 2009 at 13:58 by gn

KTorrent FTW! :P

91 Oct 19, 2009 at 14:11 by CDN

Used Both and found Utorrent to be the one for me..

92 Oct 19, 2009 at 14:33 by deathstaraven

Use the older version of Vuze called Azureus. then update the azureus code and it won’t be so bloated. I also use utorrent as well.

93 Oct 19, 2009 at 14:47 by metal freak..

KTorrent on ubuntu \m/

94 Oct 19, 2009 at 15:12 by User1

I use ABC am I oldskool?

95 Oct 19, 2009 at 15:29 by fuzzyslippers

System requirements for Vuze: 2 Gigahertz processor, 1 GB of RAM and DirectX 9.0 compliant video and sound — WHY the hell do you require 1 GB of RAM for a BitTorrent client? I’ll keep slim sexy uTorrent, thank you.

96 Oct 19, 2009 at 15:43 by Ninja

Vuze/Azureus is a resource eating behemoth. If Vuze team solve that problem it’ll come back to the top.

I’ve been using uTorrent since it was born. It has greatly evolved and it is now the best software in the category. As for not being open source… Well, as long as the team does a good job keeping it up to date it’s cool. The negative point is that uTorrent stable version still doesn’t support udp… But it’s gonna change soon ;D

97 Oct 19, 2009 at 16:30 by SX0T

I used to use Transmission and uTorrent, but then found out about VUZE’s ability to transfer to my PS3. I started using it just to test out that function and found out that it also downloaded my torrents at a MUCH faster speed. Like X5 faster than uTorrent or Transmission. Not sure why. So until someone can point me to a solution to have uTorrent or Transmission download as fast as Vuze, or to a program that transfers to my PS3 in the same simple way Vuze does, then I’m using Vuze.

Willing to change though – so help and convince me!

98 Oct 19, 2009 at 16:32 by SX0T

Oh, Vuze also has RC4 encryption.

99 Oct 19, 2009 at 16:39 by Lillysaidmoo

Funnily enough I’ve actually gone from uTorrent to Vuze. But I can see why its not doing as well – Vuze isn’t exactly as lightweight or well-coded as uTorrent.

100 Oct 19, 2009 at 17:27 by Virotelisa

I used to be a fan of Vuze when it was still called Azureus, but ever since they renamed it and redid the interface completely i started to dislike it – mainly a last drop though as it was simply to much of a resource hog.

Utorrent does exactly the same – at least on the surface – and is a nice, slim application. Im not surprised about the market share it has :)

101 Oct 19, 2009 at 17:45 by James

I use BitTornado (via TorrentFlux) on a small separate Linux machine that runs 24/7.

102 Oct 19, 2009 at 17:47 by frosty_prick

Do some of you folks realise you can switch from Vuze’s crap interface back to the old one as seen in Azureus?

Look here…
http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/The_Azureus_Experience

I really wonder about people’s computing abilities these days…

103 Oct 19, 2009 at 18:11 by PaxDeltaPan

This helps with Vuse/Azureus resources.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2753091

Can’t find version 3 by the Black Knight, prefer that myself but that version 4 retail of Mem Turbo is fine, just code is better and different UI, smaller filesize.

I autoreclaim every 30 mminutes, set autorecover to alert level and when needed run from system tray etc, then RAM can be refreshed without reboot.

I’ve still only got 512 and using browser with Azureus simultaneously wouldn’t be possible without Mem Turbo, prerequisite software imho.

Paxus.

PaxDeltaPan.

104 Oct 19, 2009 at 18:41 by PaxDeltaPan

Or should i say multitasking Azureus and browser etc would be annoyingly clunky, not impossible, much better with Mem Turbo, other can’t qualify other RAM managers.

Indeed, goto tools menu, options, Interface sub level “Start” and about midway down is the UI chooser for classic interface, first thing i do if i need to reinstall.

Paxus.

PaxDeltaPan

105 Oct 19, 2009 at 20:15 by Anonymous

I think its an extremely bad idea to use closed-source software for torrenting because it it a sensitive matter.

Therefore i wouldn’t use uTorrent or other closed-source client.

Vuze(classis interace ONLY), deluge, trasmission, ktorrent all do the job for me.

106 Oct 19, 2009 at 20:15 by kevin

uTorrent in WINE for the win. Been my staple for years.

107 Oct 19, 2009 at 20:20 by Dia

Does using Transmission make you feel more l33t?

108 Oct 19, 2009 at 20:40 by Reasoned Mind

Personally, I am still using Kazaa. MPAA say there are quite a few of you pirates still stealing our stuff on there.

109 Oct 19, 2009 at 20:44 by Remz

If you want to be slick use utorrent, but if you want to be hardcore use azureus. Azureus till i die!!!

110 Oct 19, 2009 at 21:12 by j3rkovic

Halite
http://www.binarynotions.com/halite-bittorrent-client

111 Oct 19, 2009 at 21:33 by svasvjvlav

the person for comment #21 should go ta hell since utorrent is jus too amazing =], NEVER had a problem

112 Oct 19, 2009 at 21:55 by Alon

Quite frankly the TF report feels sensationalistic, as all these “metrics” are based on a sample size of just 17k peers, which is a tiny tiny fraction of the *millions* connected at any given moment, and a size so small that a single torrent can significantly skew the results. I would argue that the tribler folks need to massively increase their sample size before anyone can argue true statistical significance, and particularly before one can make any real conclusions about market share gain/loss over time:

10361 uTorrent
2449 Azureus

I’ve seen more peers on a single Lost torrent alone, than in their entire sampling! A 2% change is only a couple hundred peers in this tiny sample, a laughably small number, particularly when you realize that just a single torrent’s peers could skew all of these in the complete opposite direction.

Let me know when somebody posts some real numbers, say from a real-world tracker’s point of view, like opentracker, which should have millions of swarm peers to pull metrics from. Given the massive variation in peer types from torrent to torrent that I’ve seen, you’d need a sampling of hundreds of thousands of peers, across hundreds of torrent files, before I would make any conclusions.

113 Oct 19, 2009 at 22:20 by specnaz

Transmission if f@#$$% awsome:D

114 Oct 19, 2009 at 22:36 by devvo

Trasmission is fast on linux :D!

115 Oct 19, 2009 at 23:19 by Washii

@70
The EULA is for the Vuze Platform (the HD Network). The client is still GPL.
So, yes, the client is still an open source/free software project

116 Oct 19, 2009 at 23:40 by pod333

I use Transmission on Ubuntu, however, the version on Intrepid Ibex (8.10) was not great so I suggest you go to the page such as here:

http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5604

To configure the package manager to get the most recent version.

In 8.10 that fixed a menu bug and added the up/down speed limits and block list features. The speed limit is particularly good for those suffering the “fair usage” policy limits during day time.

117 Oct 20, 2009 at 00:02 by blast96

What did you expect – in a world where half the clients have spyware built in, utorrent is lean and spyware clean!

118 Oct 20, 2009 at 01:14 by Anonymous

I am using rtorrent and/or transmission.

I never danced (java) with Azuerus.

I let down utorrent from 1.6 onward, mmmm I wonder why?

119 Oct 20, 2009 at 05:28 by Deluge ftw

Don’t trust BitTorrent Inc to do good. Don’t trust Vuze Inc to deliver un-bloated software. Don’t have Linux.

120 Oct 20, 2009 at 06:19 by Anonymous

I use uTorrent on Ubuntu Linux purely for the peer exchange. Most ppl use it, therefore uTorrent’s peer exchange has more peers than any other client. Unless some client can use uTorrent’s peer exchange, I don’t see them really losing ground anytime soon…

This is how I learned to set up uTorrent on Ubuntu Linux:
http://linuxhacksandports.blogspot.com/2009/10/torrent-on-linux.html

121 Oct 20, 2009 at 10:11 by Brandon

utorrent is the exact same thing as bittorent

122 Oct 20, 2009 at 10:45 by pod333

@120 The latest Transmission BT client supports both peer exchange and DHT for “trackerless” operation.

123 Oct 20, 2009 at 13:18 by David Watanabe

why don’t you suckers use my program?

124 Oct 20, 2009 at 15:30 by Borderliner

@ Brandon
Most likely TF counts also versions earlier than 6 (or was it 5?) of Mainline which was not the same program as uT. And eighter way – they´re marketed as different programs, hence they can be counted as different programs.

As for Transmission, it´s a decent client without big hickups which is, among other things, included in FreeNAS, I bet that´s why it´s getting more and more popular. Especially as Windows users can command it with the 3rd party Remote GUI which looks and works like uT.

125 Oct 20, 2009 at 16:18 by Dan

you can call me dumb, I know you will, but I use BitComet and I like it.
I have both bitcomet and utorrent installed but i always use bitcomet, I have 2gb ram so i dont need a light client, I think bitcomet is very easy to use and has also a very good interface, never had problem with it.

126 Oct 20, 2009 at 16:50 by Mike Dallos

I’ve tried them all…………..uTorrent downloads the fastest!

Be well all……..

MD 20/20

127 Oct 20, 2009 at 22:20 by Transmission rules

For those of you wondering why transmission has increasing numbers:

It probably has to do with the increasing market share of Apple, not Linux. I tried az on my mac but it was way to resource intensive. Transmission on the other hand hardly uses any cpu or that much memory. I never notice a slowdown in performance at all. Plus its easy to use and has intuitive controls. Best client for mac imho. And with Apple continuing to increase its market share, its not wonder transmission is on the rise.

128 Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50 by RIAAsoned Mind

Eh, screw all this.

Just buy plastic discs!

129 Oct 21, 2009 at 08:40 by Anonymous

I’m liking that I’m seeing alot of push for Deluge on here. I was annoyed at transmission cause I felt like I had been crippled by trying to use it instead of uTorrent, because I felt like much information and options were missing-and they were. I was very happy when I found deluge, because like the person who said he uses rTorrent so that he can add files and have it handle the rest – deluge can do that too when you switch it to daemon mode. Then you can also connect to that daemon from any other computers in the house and it looks like you’re doing stuff on that local computer and feels just like uTorrent still (although the pieces tab is missing…) which I think is very cool.

130 Oct 21, 2009 at 08:44 by me

rtorrent here, running 24/7/365 on openbsd-powered headless routers.

131 Oct 21, 2009 at 13:42 by Anonymous

Of course uTorrent is more popular: Dumb is the majority. When GI Joe is 5th in the list of top ten downloads you KNOW that thinking just isn’t an option for many people.

uTorrent is for the clueless.

132 Oct 21, 2009 at 14:44 by a cucumber

Note that Mainline is µTorrent with a different name and BitTorrent DNA preinstalled so it’s actually 68.81% for µTorrent/Mainline. That’s a lot!

133 Oct 21, 2009 at 17:28 by nick

looks like I gotta switch from vuze to uTorrent

134 Oct 21, 2009 at 21:11 by Anonymous

After reading this article I tried out Transmission in the new Ubuntu beta. It’s way better than it was a year ago when I last tried it. So much so that I think I’ve found my new BitTorrent client.

135 Oct 21, 2009 at 22:59 by apple guy

I agree with the idea that Transmission is gaining ground because of Mac. I used uTorrent on Windows but when I bought my Macbook they didn’t have uTorrent for it yet. Now that I’m using Transmission I doubt I’ll switch to the Mac uTorrent.

136 Oct 22, 2009 at 15:07 by torrent

who this is brand new! look at:
http://api.theghostbay.org/

137 Oct 22, 2009 at 21:12 by Anonymous

For Linux, I prefer Deluge.

Windows, uTorrent or Vuze.

138 Oct 22, 2009 at 21:14 by Anonymous

Also, don’t forget that Transmission is the default client for many Linux distros. That could also be the reason for why the client is gaining ground.

139 Oct 22, 2009 at 21:33 by g

Deluge is the best

140 Oct 22, 2009 at 22:31 by downloadtorrentsfaster.net

I don’t even have to use a client program. 100% of your connection speed downloads, well known and trusted service. Check it out at downloadtorrentsfaster.net

141 Oct 26, 2009 at 08:22 by DeepInPot

I HATE utorrent for the main fact that I can’t manually update the tracker. That’s where they fucked up for me.

142 Oct 27, 2009 at 13:45 by HurrDurr

A closed source application becoming a majority use application.

Now where have I heard that before?

And what was it that came before a major wave of exploits and infestation?

Oh yea, the exact same thing.

143 Oct 27, 2009 at 15:42 by Anonymous

The only reason I use uTorrent is because the scheduling on the others sucks ass, and Vuze uses Java, with is a hog.

144 Oct 29, 2009 at 23:26 by furious

I’m here researching a change in my bittorent client, as the new Vuse ‘upgrade’ has been a disaster. It didnt install correctly, left all my torrents high and dry, I’m ready to delete the damn think and find something else after many years of loyalty to azareus.. actually I would love to go back to simple old azareus..

145 Oct 31, 2009 at 18:45 by biper

how much money microsoft gave you to condamn java??? hahaha….java run on kbts somethang microsoft did not done since dos.oh…did i mention no bsod…the wow was never needed.

give me java and i will emulate the world.

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