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I recently switched from using Azureus to using µTorrent for downloading torrents. So far the only differences I've noticed is that µTorrent doesn't have features I never cared about loads a lot faster than Azureus ever did annd has a third priority option for files within a torrent. So far the only problems I've had have come from my not being used to the µTorrent GUI.

So I'm wondering if there are any other bit-torrent clients you guys recommend I try ?

Also how well does the auto speed adjustment work for the various clients ?
Setting the upload limit manually is easy enough, but I'd prefer to use the automatic limit adjustment if it works.

For Windows, µTorrent is about as good as it gets. KTorrent on Linux is a close second, despite a few extremely annoying bugs, but I doubt that's an option for you.

I love uTorrent. Use it all the time.

I am intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

You have influenced me to sample µTorrent, and it has now gained another convert from Azureus thanks to its extremely low footprint, lack of useless features (I'm looking at you, Vuze!), and more sensible GUI.

Still using Azureus on Linux- I try to avoid any QT using apps if possible (except Virtualbox and SMPlayer) due to my obsession w/ keeping my entire UI GTK-based for consistency- plus w/ 4 gigs of RAM, who cares how bloated Azureus is ?

Azureus from the repos still uses 2.5 though w/o the Vuze bullshit.

I've been using Bittornado for years and it works just fine.

I use utorrent myself but there are other options such as bitcomet.The choice is yours.

DarthShady wrote:I use utorrent myself but there are other options such as bitcomet.The choice is yours.

Bitcomet used to be decent, but they're really dropping the ball lately - especially with the ridiculous "padding" thing. µTorrent gives you the same features at a fraction of the resource cost.

Whenever I'm on a windows machine, I use uTorrent. It's Deluge for me on Linux, simply because I found Azureus to be too unstable.

Don't use Bitcomet. Many clients still auto-blacklist Bitcomet due to the whole 'cheating/leeching' thing. Unless you want a feature utorrent doesn't have (like fucking kickban for instance) just use that.

Transmission, because it hammers the tracker.

I'm not jive with BitTorrent technology, but "hammers the tracker" doesn't sound like a particularly positive thing.

Braedley wrote:Whenever I'm on a windows machine, I use uTorrent. It's Deluge for me on Linux, simply because I found Azureus to be too unstable.

Odd, I've found the opposite, w/ Deluge being extremely flaky, w/ nonfunctional UPnP support (useful if you have multiple computers using bittorrent simultaneously and feel too lazy to manually port forward). Azureus is flaky if you're using a non-sun Java (Ubuntu uses GCJ by default).

The existance of utorrent sort annoys me, now that it's the official Bittorrent client, since the Mac and Linux versions haven't been updated since (and source has been closed off). Not that it was any good anyway.

[Edit] Apparently Deluge in the repos is significantly out of date. Oh well, too lazy to be bothered to switch back to Deluge since Azureus does everything and then some.

Pu-239 wrote:

Braedley wrote:Whenever I'm on a windows machine, I use uTorrent. It's Deluge for me on Linux, simply because I found Azureus to be too unstable.

Odd, I've found the opposite, w/ Deluge being extremely flaky, w/ nonfunctional UPnP support (useful if you have multiple computers using bittorrent simultaneously and feel too lazy to manually port forward). Azureus is flaky if you're using a non-sun Java (Ubuntu uses GCJ by default).

Perhaps that's my problem. I don't have a problem with Deluge because I'm behind a switch, not a router, although we'll see if I ever try to use it at home.

Ares Galaxy and uTorrent. I'm probably gonna re-link torrents to open in uTorrent tho.

Pu-239 wrote:The existance of utorrent sort annoys me, now that it's the official Bittorrent client

...huh? When did that happen? Oo;

I missed it too, but now that I tried out utorrent, it's massively awesome. So I converted.

Uraniun235 wrote:I love uTorrent. Use it all the time.

I agree on uTorrent. It's really an excellent, low-profile client.

Archaic` wrote:

Pu-239 wrote:The existance of utorrent sort annoys me, now that it's the official Bittorrent client

...huh? When did that happen? Oo;

Last year.

Is Bittorrent bad? Or should I try something else?

That depends. If you're using version 5 or older, there are much better choices out there. If you're using version 6, it's µTorrent with a different icon and name in the title bar.

Executor32 wrote:That depends. If you're using version 5 or older, there are much better choices out there. If you're using version 6, it's µTorrent with a different icon and name in the title bar.

I've got version 5. So what better choices are there?

This thread has a consensus on utorrent.

What do you think people recommend?

for a while, I used Arctic torrent because it was very simple (almost minimalistic) but now use uTorrent.