what Torrent programs are the best?

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:27 pm

i've been using G3-torrent for a while. while it has great features and i love it so, it fucks up and never saves the list of torrents i'm downloading when it exits (so i have to RE-add them everytime i load the program up).

so what's something better? what does everyone use?

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:51 pm

I use Azureus myself. I sampled a few others a while back and found the way Azureus handles what I consider to be a key feature (managing individual files in a multi-file torrent) better than any of them. The downside though is that it's written in Java meaning that, among other things, its memory footprint can grow quite large. It doesn't particularly bother me since I have a gig but ymmv.

These days however, I'm doing most of my torrenting through my Linux PC at home. Since it doesn't have a GUI installed I run BitTornado on it in a screen session so that I can leave it running in the background and only connect to it (via SSH) to check its progress.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:56 pm

I use Tornado.

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:20 pm

Azureus x2

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:03 pm

I use Tornado, but if you're looking for a program that will organize multiple torrents, Tornado isn't the program for you.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:26 pm

ok thx, i've got Azureus.
it's pretty good, i'm giving it my recommendation to others since i'm sure i'm not the only one who found this thread handy

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:51 am

AzereusÂ³

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:39 am

Azereus

X4

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:53 am

Azureus and BitTornado are both good. Tornado if you are downloading a single torrent or Azureus if you want to load up and queue.

suicide eddie · Post by **suicide eddie** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:43 pm

using bitcomet as its the most stable for me. bitornado i find a bit slow and azureus still has its on-going flaw with its memory leak and buffer overflows. shame throught cos i like its features.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:59 pm

I almost forgot WinMX, it behaves like and has been around since the Napster days. Its only good for small files though like music.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:58 am

wrong thread topwop

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:20 pm

Another vote for Azureus here. It does substantially slow down my system at times, but since I'm rarely doing anything else while running a download, I don't really mind.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:56 pm

Top Gun wrote:Another vote for Azureus here. It does substantially slow down my system at times, but since I'm rarely doing anything else while running a download, I don't really mind.

I have not seen a BT client that doesnt hit the systems performance on larger files, which is why I run most torrents over 300 MB on a different computer entirely.