BitTorrent Client

sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
I'm pretty sure I already know what client will win this poll, but I was just curious as to what client people use for BitTorrents. I tried to put as many clients as I could find (most Ive never heard of), but if its other please post!
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  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited June 2005
    Azureus !

    And all its java goodness :).
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    yep same here!
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    who voted Pingpong ABC? I wanna know about it
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    Right here.

    ABC is no muss, no fuss. It's as fast as any client, has a small footprint, and isn't as apt to bug to bug out as Azureus is.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2005
    if ABC supports swarming, I was never able to find it. I find that with the same number of connections, on average, azureus is much much much faster. I'm talking 10x
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    :confused:
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    Another ABC user here. It's stable and my speeds are just fine.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    really... maybe I should try it. Would it be possible for me to open a torrent in ABC that's already been half downloaded in Azureus?
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    As long as the default download locations are the same, I don't see why not.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    you mean the file path where its DLing to? yeah those would be the same
  • PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    Azureus is the one that's worked best for me. Only issue I ever had was the recent version not working until I'd updated to the latest Java release.
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited June 2005
    bit tornado. i've never used anything else (never had any reason to.) it has lotsa features that are helpful.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    Azureus here too, haven't tried any others, many claimed it to be the best and I have no quarrels over it. Plus I like the plugins I got for it too..
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    ok i think i'll have to test out some of these to see if i like them.

    Who voted other??? the whole point of this thread is for me to know what people have to say about the clients, and post which ones they use (obviously).
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited June 2005
    I used to use ABC. Then I got Azureus, and never looked back. Whoever whines about memory usage needs their head checked. 30 megs, with 100+ torrents open? You're whing about that?! I have 512 total and 30-40 doesn't bother me one bit. It's better now with 2.3.whatever now, too. it's down to 12 with 40 torrents going. I love it.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2005
    I use Bit Tornado. I would think that Azureus uses too much resources since it is Java and much larger than Bit Tornado.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    I don't think it does- cpu usage is minmal, but it will take most of your bandwidth.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    uh.... I use the one from bittorrent.com didnt see it on the list though
  • PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    pilotwings119 wrote:
    I don't think it does- cpu usage is minmal, but it will take most of your bandwidth.
    The beauty of Azureus is you can easily limit its upload and download bandwidth limits.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    Preacher wrote:
    The beauty of Azureus is you can easily limit its upload and download bandwidth limits.
    yes i do love that feature!
    uh.... I use the one from bittorrent.com didnt see it on the list though
    every client has a name. there are many that you can download from bittorrent.com. If you dont see the name, simply vote other and then post it.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    pilotwings119 wrote:
    every client has a name. there are many that you can download from bittorrent.com. If you dont see the name, simply vote other and then post it.

    um nope.... theres only the one from that particular site

    http://www.bittorrent.com/
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33044&package_id=25125

    lol i guess thats just some source project called BitTorrent
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    as far as I was aware, bittorrent.com was owned/run by the guy who invented bittorrent
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited June 2005
    I haven't used BT in a really long time as one of my favorite sites was shut down months ago. (Any suggestions?)

    I used ABC. It was the first one I ever used and I've never had a reason to find a new client.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    Camman wrote:
    as far as I was aware, bittorrent.com was owned/run by the guy who invented bittorrent
    ok - if you click on that link, it goes to sourceforge which is all open-source projects. on that page are older downloads of your BitTorrent client software.

    this link - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33044&package_id=25125
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    TheGr81 wrote:
    I haven't used BT in a really long time as one of my favorite sites was shut down months ago. (Any suggestions?)

    I used ABC. It was the first one I ever used and I've never had a reason to find a new client.

    what site did you use? try these:

    www.isohunt.com
    www.torrentspy.com
    www.novatina.com
    www.fulldls.com
    www.mybittorrentnews.com
    www.mybittorrent.com
    www.torrentbox.com
    www.torrentportal.com - i just heard about that one. I'll try it too
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    I use Bit Tornado. Azureus wouldn't load for me last time I tried it, and Bit Tornado works well enough that I haven't bothered with anythign else.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    All but one of those sites suck.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    pilotwings119 wrote:
    ok - if you click on that link, it goes to sourceforge which is all open-source projects. on that page are older downloads of your BitTorrent client software.

    this link - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33044&package_id=25125

    what are you talking about? If you see my screenshot, the giant red box I circled, doesnt go to sourceforge or anything like that, it downloads the bittorrent client from that site, the one I've been talking about the whole time....

    the link below all those buttons says "click for source an older version" goes to sourceforge and has the source...or older versions of the same client I've been talking about the whole time.

    my only point being, I suppose that client is JUST called "bittorrent" and that is the particular one I use.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited June 2005
    Wow. It might actually help if I had BT installed. I just realized it's been so long since I've used it that I've reformatted since and never thought once about reinstalling BT. That's not cool. :o
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