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what Torrent programs are the best?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:27 pm
by roid
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?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:51 pm
by Admiral LSD
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:56 pm
by Krom
I use Tornado.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:20 pm
by Vindicator
Azureus x2
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:03 pm
by Jeff250
I use Tornado, but if you're looking for a program that will organize multiple torrents, Tornado isn't the program for you.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:26 pm
by roid
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
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:51 am
by CDN_Merlin
Azereus³
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:39 am
by BUBBALOU
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:53 am
by Top Wop
Azureus and BitTornado are both good. Tornado if you are downloading a single torrent or Azureus if you want to load up and queue.
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:43 pm
by suicide eddie
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:59 pm
by Top Wop
I almost forgot WinMX, it behaves like and has been around since the Napster days. Its only good for small files though like music.
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:58 am
by roid
wrong thread topwop
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:20 pm
by Top Gun
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.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:56 pm
by Krom
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.
