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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: KappaWing on January 01, 2007, 02:08:09 pm
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Right now i'm deciding between BitComet and Azeurus. (sp?)
Your recommendations? :)
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azureus is awesome :yes:
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utorrent is better, its small and resource friendly
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/me uses ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/).
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Yeah I think i'll go with utorrent. Resource Freindly is one of my main objectives here. :)
Thanks Windrunner.
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Having used both BitCommet (extensively) and Azureus (briefly), I finally settled on utorrent. It's small and fast and does everything I need it to.
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azureus is awesome :yes:
I agree, I use it as well. :nod:
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I use U-Torrent, it's a nice program, pretty stable and doesn't slow down other software nearly as badly as some other clients.
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What exactly is the difference between the Stand-Alone installer and the normal installer?
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utorrent is gd but cant compare to azures
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Shareaza :P, but between the two, utorrent.
Edit: Wow, utorrent wasn't a choice, I've never had any of those clients, so go with Shareaza.
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I'll throw in another vote for Azureus. It was quite a resource hog in the past, but I've seen a huge improvement with the most recent round of updates.
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What exactly is the difference between the Stand-Alone installer and the normal installer?
Its not in the FAQ :nervous:
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Right now i'm deciding between BitComet and Azeurus. (sp?)
Your recommendations? :)
Depends.... what platform are you using?
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Windows
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µTorrent 1.5.437.
Unless you just love a huge footprint and java overhead, and messing with an endless multitude of pretty much useless poorly documented plugins, and enjoy restarting your client due to unknown causes of instability, and having to forward a TCP AND a UDP port (though that may have changed), then by all means Azureus will let you get your geek on.
Azureus also gets the nod if you want to set up a tracker on your PC although µTorrent can do that too (just with no interface to speak of), and who would when you can be tracked by Sladinki007 or Demonoid or the Pirate Bay or...well, you get the point.
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Unless you just love a huge footprint and java overhead, and messing with an endless multitude of pretty much useless poorly documented plugins, and enjoy restarting your client due to unknown causes of instability, and having to forward a TCP AND a UDP port (though that may have changed), then by all means Azureus will let you get your geek on.
I've never had any of these problems with Azureus. In fact I've had no problems at all with Azureus, and thats the main reason I have yet to even try µTorrent.
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Azereus is the only one that's given me decent download speeds. End of discussion. :p
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It's a pretty old argument isn't it, µTorrent vs. Azureus. But it's really between those two.
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And the entire µTorrent program is around 160KB, yes, kilobytes. The Azureus installer is 8.4MB, I don't know how big it expands to.
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Azureus gave my firewall problems, that's why I swapped to utorrent, but other people may have no problems.
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I use Azureus, it never gave me any problem (except for massive slowdowns on my father's crappy computer :rolleyes:, but on this one it's all ok).
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Azureus is user friendly. Good for newbies.
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Azureus is user friendly. Good for newbies.
And Utorrent isnt?
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Azureus is user friendly. Good for newbies.
And Utorrent isnt?
not in that extent, no. i used both BitLord and Azureus in the past, and both crapped out with download speeds and resource hogginess, so i switched to uTorrent, i was at first wtf, 168kb? no ****ing way. in the end i was hooked :D
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Now, whats the difference between the standalone utorrent and the utorrent installer? its not in their FAQ.
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The installer makes some links in your start menu and a desktop shortcut I think.
I use the standalone though, since I'm stuck in the simple days of DOS and don't like to make registry entries if I don't have to. Either one is good.
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Azureus is good but it's also a resource hog :/ I use it because I cannot be arsed to change it
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I don't care about the resource usage. When I'm doing something big, like playing, I really cannot spare any resources on torrent downloading, or firewall or virus guard or anything. I'm not even online when I'm playing something my computer only barely handels. And there are lots of games my computer only barely handles. You see it's an overclocked piece of crap that tends to overheat a lot. So only time I tend to run Azureus is when I'm sleeping or surfing.
But I'm not a real number jerker. Azureus and Space Rangers can run on my poor old rig simultaneously and that's good enough for me.
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BitComet. Allthough I do have tried uTorrent and agreed that it is powerfull I still went back using BitComet. They're both good.
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i like utorrent.
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Would utorrent have slower download speeds than Azeurus?
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No.
Some people have mentioned that µTorrent may take a bit longer to get up to speed, but this behavior is anecdotal, incidental and immaterial.
Both Azureus and µTorrent will download to the maximum capacity of your connection, assuming the torrent is well seeded.