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What is a good bit torrent client ?

I am specificaly looking for two capabilities.

1. The ability to select an individual file from a torrent.

2. Resume downloads.
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1. due to the way bittorrent works, you can't select individual files from torrents until the entire torrent is finished downloading.

2. most all bittorrent clients have the resume feature to my knowledge.
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The Shadow wrote:What is a good bit torrent client ?

I am specificaly looking for two capabilities.

1. The ability to select an individual file from a torrent.

2. Resume downloads.

1. Sorry can't be done

2. all of them

re1. Azureus can prioritize(sp?) small files and .nfo files.

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The Shadow wrote: 1. The ability to select an individual file from a torrent.
Azureus does that.
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Faram wrote:1. Sorry can't be done
Azureus can do that!
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phongn wrote:
Faram wrote:1. Sorry can't be done
Azureus can do that!
Damn guess I have to check out the options some more...
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Looks like you're getting Azureus. It's the only one I know of that allows you to do what you want. If only it didn't use java it would've been a lot better though.
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Im using that, it says i have a NAT problem and i have no idea what that means or how to fix it O_o
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Faram wrote:
phongn wrote:
Faram wrote:1. Sorry can't be done
Azureus can do that!
Damn guess I have to check out the options some more...
In BitTornado is a bit more annoying, but you CAN open the "details" screen, right-click on a file you don't want and select "never download".
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Btornado kinda doesn't exisit anymore, my copy started rejecting torrents... so I moved onto bitcomet.(nice program)
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Zac Naloen wrote:Im using that, it says i have a NAT problem and i have no idea what that means or how to fix it O_o
Are you using a router? If so, you'll have to forward the ports BT uses to your computer (I can't recall which ports atm)

I believe Azureus supports UPnP, so if you have that enabled on both your client and router, it should work.

Even with the NAT problem, you should be downloading... Just very slowly.

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