Azureus
Azureus is one of the top two BitTorrent clients available, uTorrent being the other. Azureus offers a number of different plugins and options not available with uTorrent, but it thereby also consumes more memory than does uTorrent .
Features:
- Multiple torrent downloads
- Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
- Advanced seeding rules
- Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
- Fast resume
- Can set a default download dir and move completed files
- Can import torrents automatically from a set directory
- Highly customizable interface
- IRC plugin included for quick help
- Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)…
One of the best features about Azureus is that offers a number of different cool plugins and add-on features to trick it out and supe it up. We've gone to the trouble of analyzing the more popular ones in "Top Azureus Plugins Revealed." Want to know what you should add to Azureus? Then read this article!
Popular Plugins Include:
- AUTO SPEED
- 3-D VIEW
- FIREFROG
- PROGRESS BAR
- SAFE PEER (blocks prying eyes of the RIAA, MPAA, and others.
- SPEED SCHEDULER
- WebUI (Remote control through the Swing Web Interface or the HTML Web Interface)
How Do I Set Up Azureus?
Have no fear, we have an easy step-by-step guide here at ZeroPaid for you to use.
I'm All Set Up, Now What Do I Do?
Check out our extensive list of torrent tracker sites for the latest and greatest in download sites. Also, I suggest reading our story on Private versus Public Tracker Sites to get an idea of what to expect from each.
How Can I Speed Up My Downloads?
Try using BitTyrant if you're suffering from slow download speeds and you've exhausted all other options as mentioned in the guide on how to Improve Your BitTorrent Download Speeds. It's basically a modified version of Azureus that promises to increase your download speeds by up to 70% on public tracker sites compared to regular versions of Azureus.
What is BitTorrent?
We have an easy, step-by-step beginner's guide available for those wanting to learn more about what BitTorrent is and how it functions.
Additonal Azureus Guides:
- Advanced Azureus Techniques
- Improving BitTorrent Download Speeds
- Azureus Version 3.0.5.0 Released This Week
- BitTyrant – the new "selfish" BitTorrent client server
- Top Azureus Plugins Revealed









This is one of my favorite bittorrent clients.
Second fave after Utorrent. has all the bells and whistles but can be a bit hefty on resources but i suppose most already know that.