Torrent Clients

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:44 pm **Post subject:** Torrent Clients

So whats everyone using? I was previously using azerus but being java its just too harsh on the system for what it does, so I'm currently trying out:
http://www.turbotorrent.com/

I have to say its a real improvement

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? Clean and free, without any adware or spyware.
? Stable and fast core, very low CPU usage.
? The most visually appealing as well as feature rich Bittorrent client.
? Built-in Web based Torrent search engine.
? Very intuitive and user friendly GUI.
? Comes complete with Install / Uninstall Wizard.

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? Built-in Torrent Search Engine (Web based).
? Multiple simultaneous downloads, ability to select download files in one torrent and set file priority.
? Queuing and downloading of multiple torrents. (Starting, stopping, pausing, queue up, queue down etc)
? Ability to limit the upload speed as well as download speed.
? Intelligent Connection Optimize, Auto Optimization for different connections, runs well using all default settings.
? Intelligent Rate Control, optimize the upload distribution in order to get the max download rate.
? Intelligent Disk Allocating, no long-time disk allocation, also decrease the disk fragment to almost zero.
? Intelligent Hash Scan, no time-consuming scanning when seeding / resume.
? Ability to block IP temporarily or permanently.
? Support Muti-tracker torrent format, and utf-8 extension, UDP tracker Protocol.
? Real-time list of peer addresses and their statistics. Reverse DNS toggle-able.
? Advanced Progress bar graphically illustrates which pieces of the file have been downloaded.
? A graph to display upload and download rates over time. Each torrent being downloaded has it's own graph record.
? Optional Web Interface for remote adminstration.
? Friends Priority System. Friends IP address can be set to get upload preference if they are downloading the same file.
? Temporary upload priority can be given to peers by right clicking them in the list.
? Peers can be banned by right clicking them in the list.
? Detailed message view for statistics and error reporting.
? System tray icon graphically displays upload download statistics.
? Can be set to use user customizable folders for storing torrent and incoming files.
? User customizable upload choker (the choker determines which peer you upload to):
? User customizable color settings to change look and feel.
? User customizable global upload rate.
? User customizable upload behavior (upload rate / number of uploads)
? User customizable listening ports, ip bindings
? Multi-Tracker support
? Written in Python. Utilizes wxWidgets.

There are some features I don't approve of, but it does seem much better than az (I've only been using it a while).

What are you guys using, and whats your opinion of it?

TaKYoN · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:04 pm **Post subject:**

I do not mind Azureus, the 2200 client is awesome for me, the upload cap works perfectly, the downloads are always fast, and it does not use as many resources as earlier versions. Best of all the newest version has not crashed once, crashing was a problem for me in previou versions.

I might give this a try tho just to see what all the fuss is about.

wargand · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:23 pm **Post subject:**

Yeah great. Must be real experts the programmers of turbotorrrent. Programmed in Python + using wxWidgets, but only a windoze version. Idiots. :evil:

George Tatum · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:28 pm **Post subject:**

TurboTorrent looks pretty similar to G3 Torrent which is an excellent client, usually thought of as a leecher mod but while it can be configured as such this is not the default.

killingjokezzz · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:52 pm **Post subject:**

I can't fault Azureus, never crashed on me once - so for me I'm not changing!!

http://www.durrellwildlife.org/upload/M ... 20frog.pdf

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:29 pm **Post subject:**

Azereus for me to.

Was an ABC client user, but since moving to Azereus, had no problems and very pleased.

Although that turbo torrent has got my interest!!!

tweye · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:49 am **Post subject:**

I'm using Azureus on a gnu/linux machine.
Latest vesrion runs smooth with no big problems.
I'm not able to efficiently cap the download bandwith, but i think this is a "problem" related to the TCP protocol.
oh, and the "Statistics" tab takes a few seconds to refresh.

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:05 pm **Post subject:**

BitTornado

Lean and mean. Not many features, but as long as it downloads I don't care.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:22 pm **Post subject:**

oh and the reason I moved from ABC, was that one upgrade they did had a bug in it.
Were if you highlighted more then one torrent and selected remove torrent from list, it did that and deleted the download from your hard drive

I lost a good few downloads from that :matrix:

Daeron · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:24 pm **Post subject:**

I use Azureus too... well never tried other since im new on bit torrent protocol

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:24 pm **Post subject:**

TaKYoNtheKoRRuPTeD wrote:

and it does not use as many resources as earlier versions.

next time you load it up can and have a couple of torrents going can you ctrl+alt+del and take a alt+printscreen please?

Just interested to see how it performs.

Mine never crashed or anything, but it uses a fair chunk of ram, and when it gets going the CPU time is seemingly speradic

ThEdEaDLiVe · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:14 am **Post subject:**

Well the one i use is outdated but it's still the best one i've found for seeding. It hasn't been in production for over a year now and the site to get it at is no longer up. UPnP NAT Fast Resume Shad0w is what it's called. I don't know why but i can seed faster using that one than any other client. With all the other clients i usually average 11-12kb/s but with this one i probably average 14-15kb/s.

I've tried bittornado, bitcomet(such potential but WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SUPERSEED OPTION!!), G3, burst, abc, Azureus(horrible for Super Seeding but good for everything else), PTC(or what I refer to it as Personal Torrent Crap!! Right Nomad!! :wink:

), TorrentStorm, Bit Spirit, and i'm sure there's others but none are as good as the UPnP NAT Fast Resume Shad0w for seeding.

I'm sure all those ones i mentioned above are all good for downloading but 99.9% of what i do is upload on torrents. I download off all the other p2p applications to bring them to torrents. It's the only way i can up stuff to the most people in the shortest amount of time is on bt.

TaKYoN · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:58 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

next time you load it up can and have a couple of torrents going can you ctrl+alt+del and take a alt+printscreen please?

Just interested to see how it performs.

Mine never crashed or anything, but it uses a fair chunk of ram, and when it gets going the CPU time is seemingly speradic

I totally fucked up what I meant spud, what I meant was the cpu usage was practically none, and this was a vast improvement given earlier versions usage for me. It still uses a fair old chunk of memory tho, but this is not an issue for me tho.

drpoopypantz · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:11 am **Post subject:**

Why use Torrent at all when there's Emule?
I have yet to desire a file I can't get from Emule.

fierysky · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:21 am **Post subject:**

I use ABC. No problems with it.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:33 am **Post subject:**

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Why use Torrent at all when there's Emule?
I have yet to desire a file I can't get from Emule.

TV episodes and games, *especially* games on BT for me.

Downloading games in emule is intollerably slow, even by emule standards.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:36 am **Post subject:**

Yep!

I can get the latest South Park episodes from Bit Torrent in minutes

tweye · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:49 pm **Post subject:**

battlestar galactica!!! they air it on my timezone too.
:mrgreen:

Myrkul · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:27 pm **Post subject:**

I use shareaza because I have a router so it's less of a bother to open/close ports with one client for all networks. I haven't tried a lot of clients so I wouldn't know if it's the fastest one. It probably has more overhead than a specialized program so no ;p

drpoopypantz · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:39 pm **Post subject:**

Myrkul wrote:

I use shareaza because I have a router so it's less of a bother to open/close ports with one client for all networks. I haven't tried a lot of clients so I wouldn't know if it's the fastest one. It probably has more overhead than a specialized program so no ;p

Shareaza sucks.
Hard.

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