Best Bittorrent client?

[woodlong]

Hi there! Which one is the best Bittorrent client? Thanks.

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

here check out a nice list of bittorent clients that our very own Ken made...

http://www.supportp2p.com/forums/showthread.php?p=603#post603

[hawkburn]

It's TOTALLY up to you... you may want minimum features if your new, easy to use interface, a combination of the two, or something completely different.

Check http://www.zeropaid.com/torrent/ <-- there for all the different versions, find one you like, uninstall the ones you dont. Shareaza hasnt gotten too many good reviews, just to give you a head's up.

You must have ports forwarded if you are behind a router, and those ports are on TCP, #'s 6881-6889, but is configurable with most clients.


Good luck, welcome to ZeroPaid, and happy summer in Brazil, its actually freezing in Texas :)

[Killawat]

Like Hawkburn said, it depends on ur tastes. Some have schedualers but some offer more info. Its all about what you want to know and the level of control you need to get goods from ur friendly bittorent site :D If your a Anime whorder like me, then you will need something with the capability to store the torrents and locations for easy access.

[ccc1005]

Yeah exactly every one has its pros and cons, I personally use Azureus, because of the awesome GUI and the amazing options/stats.

But some other people like a more simple client that just gets the job done without you having to fiddle with it, so my theory would be download a bunch and see which you personally like best, as they all work well.

[ccc1005]

And why isnt Azureus listed on that zeropaid torrent site? Not to fanboy but we should at least show people all the options

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

will get on that right now ccc1005

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

http://zeropaid.com/torrent/

Azureus added

[ccc1005]

Thnx man :)

[Ken17625]

I have to give Yoda credit, he's been on the ball recently, both here and his own site.

[N[E]rD]

I am looking to know what everyone thinks is overall the fastest client? Or are they all the same, because sometimes mine will spike high on azureaus. I switched to TorrentStorm cause it was blazin fast. Then I uninstalled Azureaus, and now TorrentStorm blows, on speed. I am just looking for great great speed!

[carolinawolf]

SHAREAZA will download bittorrent when torrent storm trackers are not hooking up.I am hooked up to 176 of 236 sources downloading at 75 kB/s now (thats kB/s) not kb/s something like 700kb/s and it would go faster if I wasn't here typing this

[WE_DELIVER]

Azureus is my favorite.
It's user friendly, very configurable, and easy to use.
The bad part: It's Java dependent and eats up ALOT of resources on my machine.
Then again, judging from Kazaa Lite, it might be a standard thing now days.

[Kyle06]

I like abc

[Malicious Intent]

Me too Kyle06. As I keep saying it should be added to the list.

[Marbire]

You must have ports forwarded if you are behind a router, and those ports are on TCP, #'s 6881-6889, but is configurable with most clients.


Can you go into a little more detail? I downlaoded TorrentStorm, but ALL my downloads sit on 0%, and "connecting"......... so its not slow downlaods, they wont even start. But I am behind a router so that could be the problem, but I dont undertstand how to do what you said.

[Malicious Intent]

I'm sure that hawburn will be along in a minute to correct me, but if you can't get connected it is unlikely to be port forwarding. Make sure you have nothing blocking your computers access to Port 6969, which is the tracker port. Alternatively you are being unlucky with the torrents you choose...

[Marbire]

Well I have Norton AV Auto Protect always running......... I disabled that, but was still unable to get the download started.

In what ways could I check that nothing is blocking my computers access t port 6969?

[Malicious Intent]

So you don't have any personal firewalls that could be blocking it?
You could try another client just so that you can rule out that TorrentStorm is to blame. You can easily switch back if the other clients also don't connect.
I quickly checked the Suprnova forums, but I havn't seen help on this yet. I'll try again. Hopefully someone is about to jump in and help us out...

[Marbire]

Ahh..... I followed the steps for the Linksys Router over at http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html

Well it still wouldn't work. I kept trying other torrents, and finally, I got one to start "leeching." The speed was incredible slow, and was going like .5 kb/s, but at least it started.....

[Malicious Intent]

.5kbs is fine to start with, It takes a time to warm up. It usually goes up to about 8kbs then falls to 1 or 2, then goes up and up. This depends on the number of peers you can see.
It is strange that you have had that many bad torrents. I trust that you left each at least 5mins before giving up?

[Cydor]

i have tried them all...the best speed i get is from "ABC" Torrent Client

[jabba|xtra]

BitComet (http://www.bitcomet.com) is probably my favorite client. Its programed completely in C++ and is pretty light on resources compared to the other clients. Good speeds, good config.

[carolinawolf]

reply to Marbire; coming in late so If no one has said it =I would leave norton on auto, it has never given me a problem. you may have your built in firewall turned on [turn off]. I do not use the one that comes with windows xp but use zonealarm and have it configured to let bit torrent come in [zone alarm takes a while to get used to] torrent storm uses BTshadow as a lets say a carrier. so you need BTshadow to make torrent storm work you get it here http://home.elp.rr.com/tur/download.html hope this helps

[gnutellafan]

Shareaza's BT performance rocks for me, especially with trackerless performance when trackers go down

[carolinawolf]

Shareaza's BT performance rocks for me, especially with trackerless performance when trackers go down
shareaza is a friend of mine also, I use a lot of different [clients] call on different ones at different times . don't know why ,maby, I started downloading only one file at a time but torrent storm is giving me 112 kB/s right now ,it has never done that much before. thats the big kB/s a movie in less than 3 hrs. under 700 mb .

[Miniver]

I really like Shad0w's Experimental. Quick, simple, easy and small. Just set it and forget it. Also, it shares resources and bandwidth beautifully with my newsreader (NewsBin)

[Marbire]

I dunno...... I'm just having serious trouble here. I'm behind a firewall, but I don't really know how to configure it, besides what it says here for my router: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html

So far, every single download has not started, even after waiting 5 inutes. I got a couple to start leeching, and waited 5 minutes, but it was so incredible slow, I just canceled it. Like 0.05 kb/s ... and it wouldn't go up...

[MAtT_Zero]

I'm quite new to BT, and at the moment am using Shareaza, mainly because I have that open all the time for the other nets it connects to anyway, so find it convenient.

However, I'm using an old PIII 500mhz machine, and although Shareaza usually uses hardly any resource, as soon as I use it to do a BT d/l, the CPU usage goes to between 80-90%. I presume this is because of the huge amount of P2P connections a torrent seems to hold open.

Soooo.... my question i...

1. is there a torrent client (WITH a half-decent GUI please - not interested in running loads of DOS boxes) that uses less CPU on an old machine like mine, and

2. not knowing why on earth BT needs to hold open hundreds of "choked" and "uninterested" connections, is there a client that allows me to limit connections of either or both download and upload. (or explain to me WHY!) :-)

Cheers.

[Malicious Intent]

If you want to keep it simple, I'd say Yet ABC. If you want lots of buttons and options then go Azureus (but it uses Java and you may be back to your resource problem again). Shad0w is also simple. Perhaps a bit too simple, hence Yet ABC. Have a play and find what is right.
The people that you upload to are the same as those you download from. You need to upload to them to keep them interested. However, if you are swapping with the same people, you wont ever complete the file. Therefore you have to keep changing to get all the parts. The more of the network you connect to, the more file parts that you can see. That way you know who to ask for what. You can see them when they are chocked or are choking you as that could change with an optimistic unchock.
That is what I understand on the matter.

EDIT: Check out that supportp2p link on the first page.

[MAtT_Zero]

Thanks - I think I understand that. However, the file I'm currently downloading is showing nearly 500 sources... the only thing that's getting "choked" with that many open or waiting connections is my internet connection and CPU! ;-)

I'm guessing - from the fact that each download only seems to be tiny tiny chunks of the file - that the whole idea of "swarming" is a huge number of tiny parts making the whole (if the bee swarm analogy holds true!) - but is there *no* client where I can limit it to something sensible like 100 similtaneous connections? I'm sure I really don't need 500!

Thanks for the suggestions by the way.

[Malicious Intent]

Yet ABC Client-> ABC Preference -> Advance setting -> Max Peer connections (bottom option)
I don't know other clients. I can check Azureus if you are interested.

EDIT: I guessing: Azureus Client -> Configuration -> Transfer -> Maximum number of connections per torrent.

Most clients will have something simular.

[MAtT_Zero]

Yet ABC Client-> ABC Preference -> Advance setting -> Max Peer connections (bottom option)
I don't know other clients. I can check Azureus if you are interested.

EDIT: I guessing: Azureus Client -> Configuration -> Transfer -> Maximum number of connections per torrent.

Most clients will have something simular.

Cheers :-)

[RACKnRAIL]

Does anybody still use ABC as a client? I'm still using Azureus on my indoor pc and uTorrent on my studio puter.