BitTorrent clients review

[NFS4]

http://www.grauw.nl/articles/bittorrent.php

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Seems well written.

I've always used Azureus. I had 4 torrents running last night and it was using over 300MB of RAM (not counting the page file).

Powerful but bloated.

 

[Leros]

I have a secondary computer that I use for downloading, so the bloat of Azareus does not bother me.

 

[Bateluer]

Doesn't seem to make any comments about some of those clients not follow the BT protocal, such as BitComet.

BitLord is my current client of choice.

 

[Modeps]

I've been using Azureus, maybe i'll try utorrent

 

[Lonyo]

Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

 

[Maluno]

Yeah, Azeurus is very powerful (undoubtedly the most control given to you), but it is written in java. A good thing, because it is multi-platform, but a bad thing because of the bloat.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Every client I know offers that, lol.

uTorrent certainly is cool and an up and coming client, but Azureus offers so much more and you wouldn't believe how useful DHT has been to me. I don't mind the bloat as I have 512 megs of ram. It'd be nice if it could be tackled somehow.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Azureus:

It?s also got huge annoying tray popups.

Fully agree. Doesn't appear to be an option to disable it, and more than once it's popped up in the middle of an intense FPS firefight and bork everything up. :|

 

[MustISO]

I use BitComet, no reason to try anything else.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Azeurus can do it too

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Azureus can do it too

Except in the morning, when you wake up and turn on your pc, with Azureus everything is FVCKING SLOW AS FVCK, but with BitComet everything is normal.

Bitcomet>*

I repeat.

Bitcomet>*

 

[OCedHrt]

Use BitComet as well, trying uTorrent right now.

 

[LordSnailz]

How accurate is the review? Any comments from folks that have tried uTorrent already/

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Modeps
I've been using Azureus, maybe i'll try utorrent

:thumbsup:
I've been using Azureus since I was first introducted to Bit Torrent. It worked well, but upon seeing the post from NSF4 about uTorrent I gave that a go.

I would recommend it over Azureus since it takes up much less memory and it has most of the features you would actually need anyway.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: ItmPls

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Azureus can do it too

Except in the morning, when you wake up and turn on your pc, with Azureus everything is FVCKING SLOW AS FVCK, but with BitComet everything is normal.

Bitcomet>*

I repeat.

Bitcomet>*

Sigh, BitComet does NOT follow the BT protocol. Using it in a private Torrent site will get you banned because it will not properly report your U/D ratio.

 

[nCred]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: ItmPls

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Azureus can do it too

Except in the morning, when you wake up and turn on your pc, with Azureus everything is FVCKING SLOW AS FVCK, but with BitComet everything is normal.

Bitcomet>*

I repeat.

Bitcomet>*

Sigh, BitComet does NOT follow the BT protocol. Using it in a private Torrent site will get you banned because it will not properly report your U/D ratio.

Wrong, I´m member at like 10 private torrent sites and I and many others use Bitcomet.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: Modeps
I've been using Azureus, maybe i'll try utorrent

:thumbsup:
I've been using Azureus since I was first introducted to Bit Torrent. It worked well, but upon seeing the post from NSF4 about uTorrent I gave that a go.

I would recommend it over Azureus since it takes up much less memory and it has most of the features you would actually need anyway.

I dont keep Azureus running all the time, if I did I could seee my computer becoming unusable... I really dig how fast utorrent loads up, just click it and it's up. It would be nice for it to support plugins though, I guess I'll just have to run peerguardian along side of it.

 

[imported_BadKarma]

Originally posted by: nCred

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: ItmPls

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Azureus can do it too

Except in the morning, when you wake up and turn on your pc, with Azureus everything is FVCKING SLOW AS FVCK, but with BitComet everything is normal.

Bitcomet>*

I repeat.

Bitcomet>*

Sigh, BitComet does NOT follow the BT protocol. Using it in a private Torrent site will get you banned because it will not properly report your U/D ratio.

Wrong, I´m member at like 10 private torrent sites and I and many others use Bitcomet.

Geez, you don't even know which sites he's talking about and yet you're proclaiming he's wrong. :roll:
FYI, I've ran into private BT sites that DO ban bitcomet.
I've been using uTorrent for about 2 weeks now and I would say I like it very much. It has most of the features I need and it doesn't eat up as much memory as Azureus. On top of it, it's only 95KB. I suggest everyone here to give it a shot.

 

[jjones]

I had never tried using a torrent client before but I've started using uTorrent since NSF4 first posted about it. As a newb to the whole bit torrent thing, I found it to be exactly what I was looking for. It's easy to use without any previous knowledge about this stuff, has no installer which is one of the things that I really love about it, and is a very small program. Does everything I need it to and I'm almost reluctant to download any updates for it because I like it just the way it is. I hope it never gets bloaty or undergoes any drastic changes that take away from how it currently works.

 

[Kogan]

No Burst? I've been using Burst since the beginning and it's the only one that never gave me problems. I tried switching to programs that other people recommended, but they were always complicated, bloated or crashed randomly.

Never tried or heard of utorrent, so I may give it a try..

 

[karioskasra]

Had a few bsods. utorrent saved torrents about half the time, the other half I had to go get the torrent file again. Deposited trash into my docs and settings folders. Seemed like a decent client for the week that I used it, but seriously, I'm not that hard up on HD space to drool over a 1meg saving. I reformat a lot and I like all my crap to stay in its own assigned folder, not spread out all over the place, so bitcomet still wins for me.

 

[RiDE]

Originally posted by: karioskasra
Had a few bsods. utorrent saved torrents about half the time, the other half I had to go get the torrent file again. Deposited trash into my docs and settings folders. Seemed like a decent client for the week that I used it, but seriously, I'm not that hard up on HD space to drool over a 1meg saving. I reformat a lot and I like all my crap to stay in its own assigned folder, not spread out all over the place, so bitcomet still wins for me.

I had BitComet, and I'm trying out uTorrent right now. Works fine for me after setting the preferences just like I do with BitComet. I don't think it's the size of the application itself that makes it appealing but the mem usage.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: OCedHrt
Use BitComet as well, trying uTorrent right now.

 

[nCred]

Originally posted by: BadKarma

Originally posted by: nCred

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: ItmPls

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Bitcomet is nice because it allows you to select which files to DL, not sure if anything else offers that feature.

Azureus can do it too

Except in the morning, when you wake up and turn on your pc, with Azureus everything is FVCKING SLOW AS FVCK, but with BitComet everything is normal.

Bitcomet>*

I repeat.

Bitcomet>*

Sigh, BitComet does NOT follow the BT protocol. Using it in a private Torrent site will get you banned because it will not properly report your U/D ratio.

Wrong, I´m member at like 10 private torrent sites and I and many others use Bitcomet.

Geez, you don't even know which sites he's talking about and yet you're proclaiming he's wrong. :roll:
FYI, I've ran into private BT sites that DO ban bitcomet.
I've been using uTorrent for about 2 weeks now and I would say I like it very much. It has most of the features I need and it doesn't eat up as much memory as Azureus. On top of it, it's only 95KB. I suggest everyone here to give it a shot.

Well, he stated that using it in private sites will get you banned, and that is incorrect generally. In most cases Bitcomet is allowed and will report your U/D ratio properly.