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Title: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 01, 2007, 02:08:09 pm
Right now i'm deciding between BitComet and Azeurus. (sp?)

Your recommendations?  :)
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: redsniper on January 01, 2007, 02:13:23 pm
azureus is awesome :yes:
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Windrunner on January 01, 2007, 02:26:08 pm
utorrent is better, its small and resource friendly
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Turey on January 01, 2007, 02:30:27 pm
/me uses ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/).
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 01, 2007, 02:31:20 pm
Yeah I think i'll go with utorrent. Resource Freindly is one of my main objectives here.  :)

Thanks Windrunner.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Rictor on January 01, 2007, 03:15:47 pm
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Andreas on January 01, 2007, 03:22:14 pm
azureus is awesome :yes:
I agree, I use it as well.  :nod:
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Flipside on January 01, 2007, 03:58:36 pm
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 01, 2007, 05:15:52 pm
What exactly is the difference between the Stand-Alone installer and the normal installer?
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: peterc10 on January 01, 2007, 08:02:15 pm
utorrent is gd but cant compare to azures
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Starkweather on January 01, 2007, 09:07:58 pm
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Mongoose on January 01, 2007, 09:22:26 pm
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 01, 2007, 09:31:32 pm
What exactly is the difference between the Stand-Alone installer and the normal installer?

Its not in the FAQ  :nervous:
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Mars on January 01, 2007, 09:50:09 pm
Right now i'm deciding between BitComet and Azeurus. (sp?)

Your recommendations?  :)

Depends.... what platform are you using?
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 01, 2007, 10:53:36 pm
Windows
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Huggybaby on January 02, 2007, 12:36:06 am
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Prophet on January 02, 2007, 04:12:20 am
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 02, 2007, 05:45:54 am
Azereus is the only one that's given me decent download speeds. End of discussion. :p
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Huggybaby on January 02, 2007, 06:38:04 am
It's a pretty old argument isn't it, µTorrent vs. Azureus. But it's really between those two.

<edit>
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Flipside on January 02, 2007, 06:40:45 am
Azureus gave my firewall problems, that's why I swapped to utorrent, but other people may have no problems.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Dysko on January 02, 2007, 07:05:02 am
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).
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: redmenace on January 02, 2007, 09:35:05 am
Azureus is user friendly. Good for newbies.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 02, 2007, 09:36:05 am
Azureus is user friendly. Good for newbies.

And Utorrent isnt?
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: pecenipicek on January 02, 2007, 10:46:53 am
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
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 02, 2007, 03:57:06 pm
Now, whats the difference between the standalone utorrent and the utorrent installer? its not in their FAQ.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Huggybaby on January 02, 2007, 04:01:22 pm
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Janos on January 02, 2007, 04:07:18 pm
Azureus is good but it's also a resource hog :/ I use it because I cannot be arsed to change it
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Prophet on January 03, 2007, 12:10:37 am
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.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Gortef on January 03, 2007, 06:37:35 am
BitComet. Allthough I do have tried uTorrent and agreed that it is powerfull I still went back using BitComet. They're both good.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Turambar on January 03, 2007, 02:29:20 pm
i like utorrent.
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: KappaWing on January 03, 2007, 04:47:12 pm
Would utorrent have slower download speeds than Azeurus?
Title: Re: Best Torrent Client?
Post by: Huggybaby on January 03, 2007, 04:59:34 pm
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.