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Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Saturn2004 on May 14, 2005, 05:53:54 pm
heya there  folks ,  i heard  there  are  different   Bit torrent  clients  out there and i was  wondering if that is  \was true
and if so , whats the diff ?
how many are  out there?
 and is one  better than the other?
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Shrike on May 14, 2005, 06:17:39 pm
I use Bittornado, which works pretty well for me.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Saturn2004 on May 14, 2005, 06:35:17 pm
well thanks  for the info  shrike
where would i get bittornado?

and can you please  help me  with a msn  problem?
some  one  accidentally  reset my msn messenger password and it was sent to  my old dial up  account  which i  no longer   use and i  cant  sign up again  due to the  companies  rules
is there any way  in which  i can  retrieve the password?
'cuz    i had  some  eighty  ppl on that contact list and i  didnt  write them all down  so unless  a miracle  happens  i would  have  lost  all contact  with most of my friends
hope you can help
and thanks for your help in advance
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Kie99 on May 14, 2005, 06:37:38 pm
http://bittornado.com

Can't help about your MSN problem though.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Saturn2004 on May 14, 2005, 06:55:28 pm
well thanks  anyways , i appreciate it  ;7
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: redsniper on May 14, 2005, 09:15:09 pm
Azureus is good too if you've got the RAM for it.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Taristin on May 14, 2005, 10:25:49 pm
Shareaza does BT, eDonkey, and Gnutella / Gnutella2... So I use that.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Rictor on May 15, 2005, 12:40:34 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I use Bittornado, which works pretty well for me.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Mongoose on May 15, 2005, 02:05:02 am
I use Azureus myself.  It is rather resource-heavy, but it's a very capable program.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: kode on May 15, 2005, 04:00:59 am
I don't know why you're saying that, really. I run azureus on a 1ghz comp with 256mb ram, and I don't really get any slowdowns even after 2 weeks of the computer running, with azureus.

or maybe I actually know how to tune the system for better performance?
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Windrunner on May 15, 2005, 07:24:48 am
lol i got a friend at the univeristy that used azureus and administrators    at school accused him one day scanning the schools entire network, while he was using it to download a tvshow
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Ashrak on May 15, 2005, 07:25:40 am
ABC torrent
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: n00by on May 15, 2005, 07:51:18 am
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Originally posted by Mongoose
I use Azureus myself.  It is rather resource-heavy, but it's a very capable program.


Agreed - using it, too.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: vyper on May 15, 2005, 08:22:04 am
BitComet and never had a problem with it.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Flaser on May 15, 2005, 08:34:25 am
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Originally posted by Windrunner
lol i got a friend at the univeristy that used azureus and administrators    at school accused him one day scanning the schools entire network, while he was using it to download a tvshow


I guess it could have looked for other clients on the LAN too :o
Probably can be tuned not to do so...I use Azureus too.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: DaBrain on May 15, 2005, 08:55:51 am
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Originally posted by redsniper
Azureus is good too if you've got the RAM for it.


I use it too. Azureus rocks. Although I don't ues it too often, but it gives me better speeds than most FTPs.

The number of companies setting up a BT tracker for their downloads is increasing.

BT is the future. ;)

BTW Azureus needs much ram? I never noticed that... but I don't care on the other hand. I got 1,5 GB Ram, so I think I will never have problems with Azureus. :)
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Windrunner on May 15, 2005, 09:45:42 am
i've herad bitcomet is also good..
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: RangerKarl on May 15, 2005, 09:53:17 am
I like BitComet right now, and I used to use Bittornado,which is a nice step up from the stock BT client.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Mongoose on May 15, 2005, 12:53:25 pm
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Originally posted by kode
I don't know why you're saying that, really. I run azureus on a 1ghz comp with 256mb ram, and I don't really get any slowdowns even after 2 weeks of the computer running, with azureus.

or maybe I actually know how to tune the system for better performance?

I don't know about you, but I find that it does slow my system down, and I have a 3-ghz P4 with HT and 512 megs of RAM. And I'll be damned if I know how to tweak my machine. :p
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Grey Wolf on May 15, 2005, 10:09:05 pm
I've heard that Azureus works far better with older versions of Java, as the older versions of JRE weren't so much of a resource whore as the newer ones.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Bobboau on May 15, 2005, 10:15:56 pm
/*reason #4376 why Java sucks*/
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: FireCrack on May 15, 2005, 10:39:01 pm
Azureus here.
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Sesquipedalian on May 15, 2005, 10:40:01 pm
I like BitLord, actually.  They seem to have programmed their client to dynamically adjust settings on the fly to maximize download rates.  I found it to be consistently faster than Azureus (which I used to swear by).
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Gortef on May 16, 2005, 04:28:27 am
one more vote for Bitcomet
Title: Different Torrent Clients
Post by: Fury on May 16, 2005, 07:08:12 am
Azureus is the best feature and performance wise with cost of higher system resource usage.