Grauw's Web Spot has posted a review of 11 Bit Torrent clients. Obviously not a comprehensive overview, it's still a healthy roundup and there aren't enough of those. The winner of this survey is uTorrent, an amazingly small (94k!) BT application. BitTornado, which I have used exclusively for at least a year, is not represented. Maybe it's time I branched out. [via Karasuhebi]
Bit Torrent Client Review
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(Page 1)2. I personally liked BitComet from very beginning, why would anybody need smth else?
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by music lyrics directory
4. These reviews are missing a very important (imo) must have feature: Trackerless support.
Missing upnp is quite irrelevant; but trying to download a torrent when the tracker is down is not.
There is a subtle difference in the way Azureus does trackerless mode and what a few other clients do. For a reason, in my experience, Azureus work where the others fail. Just try starting a torrent when the tracker is down, and you will understand.
He seems to be biased against the interface, or loading times. I haven't found any problems with the interface; its easy enough. And the loading time is acceptable. In fact, its quite speedy for a java app.
So in short µTorrent could one of the best if they added kademlia trackerless mode; meanwhile Azureus will reign.
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Artemis3
5. I ran across an interesting story about the RIAA and MPAA vs. File Sharing ( http://www.betadot.com/how-the-riaampaa-could-solve-p2p/2005-249/ ) while looking for information on certain peer-to-peer clients... just figured you might be interested ;)
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jo
1. UTORRENT IS YOUR FATHER. I just installed it today after reading about it on downloadsquad.com, and oh my god is this good. it does 90% of the stuff azureus does, except when I open it, it doesn't slow my computer to a crawl. it uses max 10 mb of memorry, and i've got about 100 torrents totaling upwards of 50gb running in it right now, this thing is amazing, I really can't say enough about it.
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Richard Lawler