Comments on: uTorrent Userbase Grows, Vuze takes a Dive

By: biper

biper — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:45:25 +0000

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.

By: furious

furious — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:04 +0000

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..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:42:30 +0000

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

By: HurrDurr

HurrDurr — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:45:29 +0000

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.

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:14:47 +0000

[...] uTorrent Holds 60% of BitTorrent Marketshare Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, continues to drop in popularity as uTorrent emerges as the king of the BitTorrent network. [...]

By: DeepInPot

DeepInPot — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:22:58 +0000

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

By: downloadtorrentsfaster.net

downloadtorrentsfaster.net — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:31:02 +0000

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By: g

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:33:07 +0000

Deluge is the best

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:14:50 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:12:56 +0000

For Linux, I prefer Deluge.

Windows, uTorrent or Vuze.

By: apple guy

apple guy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:59:52 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:11:45 +0000

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.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:28:07 +0000

looks like I gotta switch from vuze to uTorrent

By: a cucumber

a cucumber — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:44:50 +0000

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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:42:06 +0000

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.

By: me

me — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:44:52 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:40:48 +0000

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.

By: RIAAsoned Mind

RIAAsoned Mind — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:50:43 +0000

Eh, screw all this.

Just buy plastic discs!

By: Transmission rules

Transmission rules — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:20:07 +0000

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.

By: Mike Dallos

Mike Dallos — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:29 +0000

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

Be well all……..

MD 20/20

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:12 +0000

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.

By: Borderliner

Borderliner — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:30:55 +0000

@ 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.

By: David Watanabe

David Watanabe — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:18:09 +0000

why don’t you suckers use my program?

By: pod333

pod333 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:45:41 +0000

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

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:11:21 +0000

utorrent is the exact same thing as bittorent

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:19:35 +0000

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

By: Deluge ftw

Deluge ftw — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:28:51 +0000

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

By: uTorrent es cada vez más aceptado | Bucéfalo

uTorrent es cada vez más aceptado | Bucéfalo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:19:56 +0000

[...] Fuente: TorrentFreak [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:14:58 +0000

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?

By: blast96

blast96 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:02:23 +0000

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

By: uTorrent aumenta distância do Vuze no Top dos clientes de BitTorrent mais usados | Remixtures

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:57:34 +0000

[...] A popularidade do Azureus (actual Vuze) está definitivamente em queda. Pelo menos a avaliar pelos dados estatísticos compilados pela equipa de desenvolvimento do projecto Tribler composta por investigadores da Universidade de Tecnologia de Delft (Holanda), no âmbito do seu estudo sobre a quota de mercado das aplicações de torrents (via Torrent Freak) [...]

By: pod333

pod333 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:40:52 +0000

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.

By: Washii

Washii — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:35 +0000

@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

By: devvo

devvo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:36:05 +0000

Trasmission is fast on linux :D!

By: specnaz

specnaz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Transmission if f@#$$% awsome:D

By: Alon

Alon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:55:45 +0000

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.

By: svasvjvlav

svasvjvlav — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:33:56 +0000

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

By: j3rkovic

j3rkovic — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:12:55 +0000

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

By: Azureus Vuze, BitTorrent Losing to Market Leader uTorrent

Azureus Vuze, BitTorrent Losing to Market Leader uTorrent — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:01:02 +0000

[...] Vuze, BitTorrent Losing to Market Leader uTorrent uTorrent now commands 60 percent market share among BitTorrent clients that are available to file sharers, according to the latest numbers [...]

By: Remz

Remz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:44:27 +0000

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

By: Reasoned Mind

Reasoned Mind — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:40:35 +0000

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

By: Dia

Dia — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:20:08 +0000

Does using Transmission make you feel more l33t?

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:15:49 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:15:22 +0000

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.

By: PaxDeltaPan

PaxDeltaPan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:41:31 +0000

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

By: PaxDeltaPan

PaxDeltaPan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:11:56 +0000

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.

By: frosty_prick

frosty_prick — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:47:45 +0000

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…

By: James

James — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:45:09 +0000

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

By: Virotelisa

Virotelisa — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:27:15 +0000

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 :)

By: Lillysaidmoo

Lillysaidmoo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:39:50 +0000

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.