Best Torrent Download Tool

[shigs]

as the title guys, what u usin?

[HiJon89]

Only BT program that's never given me problems is the original BitTorrent Client and it does everything I want so thats what I use.

[winston64]

I use azureus, i've tried so many other programs but none offer the same features/download speeds as azureus

[Jamo]

bit tornado

[x714n]

bitcomet

[morbidj]

Bit tornado

[SLaY3r07]

Azureus here...

[Flash777]

azureus is the best i've used.

[Dillusion]

Bitcomet here.

[craig588]

bit tornado
^^^^

[TekXoID]

Azureus. It's the best if you have the resources to spare, and fastest.

I say "if" you have the resources because with just three torrents loaded up the java engine of Azureus is using 89MB of RAM.

[sllywhtboy]

azureus + safepeer plugin on a dedicated download box. for the longest time, it was a p2 400/256mb ram. now it's a p4m/512mb ram.

[kamaleon]

i have to give azureus a try.

[rick_fx]

Azureus here also

[mcnbns]

Azureus is a RAM hog. It's good but very resource heavy. I'm going to dl Bit Tornado to give it a try.

EDIT: Azureus is what I use right now, though.

[notoriousformula]

Another vote for azureus.. Best Tool!

EDIT: check out the new 2.300 version.. I like the new console details and Swarm graph :)

[perry_78]

Which websites you use since Suprnova died?

I use Bit Spirit and Exeem Lite right now, but none are ideal :(

[shigs]

well guys i dl azureus and........ WOW!! much better than the bit torrent program i used 2 use last yr :D and ive got 2gb of system ram so it dnt affect me at all :toast:

[$a1Ty]

i just tried out azureus and dont like it, too big and yeah same d/l speeds as bit tornado, bit tornado all the way nice and lean

[Jasonhk]

Azureus here...

same :D :D

[Jester FPS]

exeem and original bit torrent client.

edit: uTorrent

[pancake]

azureus... always seems quicker than the others ive tried

[masterofpuppets]

Bit Tornado!!

[HardcoreNL]

Bit Tornado for sure, no bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:.

[alexio]

Bittornado for sure !!!

Never had even one problem with that program and I've been using it for about a year or even longer now.

*Is it legal to post links to torrentsites here?

[setyotomo]

Bit Comet roxxx !!

[FallenAngel]

Azureus

[{PMS}fishy]

ABC or Bittornado.

[CD 1986]

Azureus hands down - end of discussion :D

[Tibu]

IMHO the best one out there is ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/) which is in turn based off of Bit Tornado, but I think it's a real big improvement.

[AMD Junkie83]

i used to use bit comet but it didnt work on one of the sites i use. so i switched to bit tornado, and its doing fine

[sllywhtboy]

the writer of bittorrent gives a lecture about it. under the hood of bittorrent (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/050216.html). good lecture, imo

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/050216-ee380-100.asx

he's vocal of bad incarnations of this protocol, rather funny.

[Tatuya]

Azureus fan and loyal user here, if I was going for more of a "lite" program, I'd go with ABC.

[mcnbns]

Azureus has tons more features, but I'm sticking with Bit Tornado for now. (I only have 512MB of RAM and I don't want to use 90MB+ just for BT :slap: )

[STEvil]

using exeem, had azureus before.. I dont like either of them really.

[perry_78]

I would never use Exeem - Exeem has way too much adware/spyware for its own good. Exeem lite is the way to go :toast:

[GoodOmens]

I use bitcomet.

[kristos]

turbo torrent, on the few occasions I ever use a torrent, this suits my needs perfectly. install, click the torrent link and done, I don't have to configure a thing :)

maybe I'll give the ones that are so popular in this thread a try :)

[uscfan]

Azerous - JAVA APP = EATS RAM LIKE A FAT KID EATS CAKE, but loaded with features.
yABC - Yet Another Bittorrent Client - Very good client, works very quickly.
Bit Torrent Client 4.0 - The latest client made by the same developer as Bit Torrent is my favorite now. Its very simple and uses very little resources. You can download it from http://www.bittorrent.com/

[uscfan]

Oh yeah, exeem is the rebirth of suprnova, the online torrent search directory. Exeem is a client though that uses torrents as the back end. POS imho.

[fatfreepork]

use torrentspy.com and bittornado

[justwOo]

torrentspy and abc :D

[teqguy]

I hate to be a downer, but whatever you do, DO NOT USE EXEEM.

Traces of Cydoor and other spyware have been found buried in the installation. There's a "lite" version that cleans it up, but it's rarely updated... so I wouldn't even bother with it.

Furthermore, the Exeem protocol is not entirely decentrallized like the developer said it would be. It still requires a central server to connect to other peers and search for downloads, which can be monitored more easily than a regular tracker.

I was never really able to get consistent downloads at high bandwidths out of Exeem anyway...


The best BT clients I've worked with are BitComet(you have to patch the peerid or else certain trackers might ban you because of a peer connectivity feature BC has) and Azureus.

Azureus, however, is a resource hog... so if you're going to use it, disable all of the features and plugins you don't need. If you're a more advanced user that knows their way around Java, you can just rip out the classes you don't need.


Just remember to practice safe piracy and use Protowall and/or Peerguardian2.

[ghidon]

i think you should at least try Bit Comet

[harpyboy]

ABC.. simple and does wat it does.. :)

[haPpydUde]

ABC here as well, its plain its simple its good.

[masterofpuppets]

Come on, surely everyone knows that BitTornado is SUPERIOR! Very small memory footprint, very reliable, Unix versions availible, and lots of configuration features to keep people busy! :)

[haPpydUde]

Not shure about now, but last time i used that it opened all my dl's in differnt windows and didnt save proggress so if i shutdown my pc at night or something i would have to restart the dl in the morning. So PFF Superior

[Rabidmoose171]

bittornado.

[HiJon89]

I tried ABC and now I'm addicted :D Azeurus was not only a memory hog but it was also an internet hog, if I was downloading even one torrent no one else in my family could use the internet, but now with ABC I can download 10 torrents and the internet still works fine, plus the torrents even download faster! :woot:

[fatfreepork]

Yabc here. Speeds are average. But its bittornado with more control of each torrent. It seems though that i am always uploading faster than i download and that bothers me. I wish they could be symmetric.

[teqguy]

I tried ABC and now I'm addicted :D Azeurus was not only a memory hog but it was also an internet hog, if I was downloading even one torrent no one else in my family could use the internet, but now with ABC I can download 10 torrents and the internet still works fine, plus the torrents even download faster! :woot:


You probably had no upload cap before. ABC might have configured it for you.

If you really like ABC that much, though, you should make the jump to BitComet. It's a lot better than ABC.

[angrysquirrel]

I use Azeurus and boxtorrents.

Edit: I don't know where people got the idea that azeurus is a hog:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=31754&stc=1
I have circled some apps with large amounts of ram in use to show that things run fine even with all of this. I crank out about 150cands/day in d2ol and am able to play guild wars while running all of these with only 1gb of RAM.

D2OL uses about 65mb for me, so this should give you a good idea of how much it uses.

[the]

abc client movie sized files usually finish in aobut 4-6 hours, record is 27minx 850 gig divx.

but i guess one of hte top ten rules of the int0rw3b is clear when ti states not to count your torrents before they download

[slap]

Yupp, ABC it is.

[Pinnacle]

BitComet, very good, very stable.

[teqguy]

I don't know where people got the idea that azeurus is a hog:


Well, you do realize that javaw.exe is the Java Runtime Enviornment that Azureus uses to execute... right?

That's why people say it's a hog.

Although, I think the usage on your JRE is about 65% attributed to Azureus and the other 35% is attributed to D2oL, which consequently uses JRE too.


As for all of you ABC users... I really don't see the appeal... other than the remote operation feature. You should really try BitComet, though. It has a feature that pulls peer lists from other peers, so that you always have a sufficient amount of people to download the file from.

[Holst]

Azureus works fine for me, i leave it running all the time cept when im gaming online (900 ping is not a good thing)

[Vicar]

Someone mentioned Peerguardian2 earlier... I wouldn't recommend that at all. I tried using it, ended up with it using 70-80% of the CPU when it had lots of connections.

Oh, and I also use Azureus, and Piratebay for finding torrents.

[teqguy]

That's true for PeerGuardian Lite and PeerGuardian... but the latest version of PeerGuardian 2 is actually very resource consciencious. I haven't seen it use processor resources unless it's updating the blocklists, and it only uses 2MB of ram.

You can even reduce resource usage by having it parse the addresses by range and have it omit the name lookup.

[haPpydUde]

Abc's newest version has a memory leak, over 400k mem usage after being left on over night. So untill that is resolved in there next build back to Azureus I go.

[teqguy]

Even with a memory leak, ABC's footprint is a lot smaller than Azureus'.

You might want to give BitComet a shot.

[urbanfox]

Exeeem

:)

[haPpydUde]

Even with a memory leak, ABC's footprint is a lot smaller than Azureus'.

You might want to give BitComet a shot.




memory leak, over 400k mem usage

:slap: , not quite

[teqguy]

Exeeem

:)


I guess you missed what I said on the previous page:


I hate to be a downer, but whatever you do, DO NOT USE EXEEM.

Traces of Cydoor and other spyware have been found buried in the installation. There's a "lite" version that cleans it up, but it's rarely updated... so I wouldn't even bother with it.

Furthermore, the Exeem protocol is not entirely decentrallized like the developer said it would be. It still requires a central server to connect to other peers and search for downloads, which can be monitored more easily than a regular tracker.



Originally Posted by happydude

memory leak, over 400k mem usage

:slap: , not quite

I think you have your units of measure a little mixed up. The unit "k" in reference to memory is always construed as kilobytes, which is how I read it.

I'm assuming you meant 400MB(400k or ~400,000 kilobytes), in which case I find that kinda hard to believe to be a natural occurrance.

The only other possible way(besides a virus) that it could bloat internally like that is if the files you're downloading and hashing are all over 2GB... and you would have to be downloading a few of them.

In this case, I would advise you to schedule the downloads so that only one is active at a time. Not only will this potentially fix the resource usage, but it'll improve download speed, because bandwidth isn't allocated among downloads.


However, as I said before, ABC pales in comparison to BitComet... so you should just use that instead.

[KingGuru]

and what for linux ?

[haPpydUde]

Sorry by k i ment thousand, yes 400mb's of ram usage. With about 140gbs of stuff being downloaded.

[notoriousformula]

and what for linux ?
I'm using Azeurus in suse 9.3 and ubuntu 5.4 :)

[KOLOBAKI]

bitcomet

I bekieve that is the best

[masterofpuppets]

KingGuru, BitTornado. It's written in Python which is pretty fast. There's absolutely millions of configuration options too. Azeurus sucks, mainly because it uses Java (which sucks), and it tries to mimic the interface of just about every p2p client out there. BitTornado is nice and compact.

[cubanyayo]

yall shoudl try bitlord its better than anyting i suggest you upload to your max so you can help people out i'm currently uploading my files at 150 KB/s yea thats KB not Kb :slapass:

[geoff2k]

Azeureus here.

[BuGBeaR]

azureus here.

[muaddib]

BitLord, an optimized BitTornado.

[pancake]

i used to use azureus but got fed up with it hogging resources. tried bitcomet and bit tornado but they always seemed to download real slow and i tested it out by trying the same torrent on all 3 clients and azureus always downloaded at twice the speed of the other 2 ( they never seemed to go above 25-30 kb\s) trying bitlord now.. looks exactly the same as bitcomet ( both c++ ) maybe a modded version of it i dont care to find out really and its getting ok speeds. just glad i only use it to find old stuff which isnt on newsgroups or it would drive me mad dl at them speeds all the time

[happyhero]

bittornado if you ask me.

[s0ulfly]

azureus or bitcomet

[JasonE4]

I'm using Azureus because I just put a gig of ram in my laptop, but before that, Azureus was painfully slow with only 512 mb. I've never tried BitComet, but it seems to be the other favorite.

[Holst]

Why would you need a gig of ram to run azureus?

Worked fine on my system with 256mb .. although I normally run 768.

I use azureus but ive never tried anything else.

[JasonE4]

I didn't need a gig to run Azureus, but I couldn't do much other than download about 5 torrents when I only had 512 mb. I don't have many background processes/apps running either.

[Holst]

Very strange ..

I have 2 torrents DLing and seeding 23 and its using a mere 1.3mb of memory..

have you got the torrent cache for DL set very high or somthing?
My cache is set to 4mb, but it dosent seem to use anything like that much

[Mr. Manka]

bit tornado

[NickS]

Azureus>ALL

Azureus is godly.

[Ugly n Grey]

bit tornado

[Ouchy]

I've tried many of the clients and am most fond of Azureus. Hence, I stick to that one.

[JonEapples]

I've never had any problems with BitTornado.

[SPQQKY]

Using Bitlord. Best I have ever used.

[trance565]

i like bittornado, its simple and ez, i used azureus for a while, but i dunno, i had prolems with the enterface, but anyways, once u get the port forwarding for tornado its great, just open like 10 ports and BAM!

[kops]

bitcomet

small footprint, stable, and fast enough for me.

[afireinside]

Azureus>ALL

Azureus is godly.

Yep, can't beat azureus. Great interface.

[aver]

Out of Azerus, BitComet, Offical Bit Torrent, and Bit Tornado I have consitently gone back to using Bit Tornado. I can reach MAX speed using Tornado and it gives me detailed breakdowns and allows for alot of control.

[$ilver]

switched from azureus to bitcomet ..

[JasonDTM]

I'm happy with Azureus.... I've tried 10 other BT programs on this torrent, and all give me tracker errors.

[rick_fx]

I use Azureus, never had problems with it

[zabomb4163]

Which websites you use since Suprnova died?

I use Bit Spirit and Exeem Lite right now, but none are ideal :(

dont mention illegal sites on these forums. seriously.

[ibby]

bit commet ... always get very good speeds 500kbs

[diabloII]

bit commet ... always get very good speeds 500kbs

what torrent was it...500kb/sec???

wow..the highest i've reached with azureus was like 150-200

[Master X]

Bitcomet here. Does anyone know how to speed up downloads I only get 4-20 kbps, I also download torrents with lots of seedars.

[Josias]

bitcomet here :D
I can reach 200kb/s

[Onepagebook]

BtSpirit 3.0.087
most of time can reach 350k/sec

[ibby]

what torrent was it...500kb/sec???

wow..the highest i've reached with azureus was like 150-200

Multi Torrents, :D :woot:

[phelan1777]

THEPIRATEBAY.ORG was shut down!

one of the best torrent site:mad: :censored: :cussing: s:eek:

[crackhead2k]

bittornado best for single - 2 downloads.... bitcomet fine with multiple although ive used 20+ for bitornado ><

[pancake]

utorrent, tiny and quick

[lawrywild]

bittornado best for single - 2 downloads.... bitcomet fine with multiple although ive used 20+ for bitornado ><

exactly the same view here

[Getttosmurf]

uTorrent
155kb .exe
10Mb mem
but dont like torrents so mostly dc ftp

[Anarki]

I use uTorrent on my mini server P3 450/384MB RAM, because it is very small and I get very good speeds: usually over 300KB/s.

On main rig I use Azureus because I tend to get over 400KB/s

[vapb400]

utorrent + demonoid.com :)

[mr_knowitall15]

Azereus Rules-
qft :with:

[TMM]

utorrent

[mursaat]

utorrent, tiny and quickQFT. I used Azureus but tried this and I'll never come back. Also, it doesn't need the Java Installation.

Loads faster, and IMO it downloads faster. Never saw my line filled with 1 file d/l in Azureus. 2 minutes after launching utorrent, Vista Beta 2 x64 was 100k/s (my max d/l right now, upgrading to 4mb/s :D)

[[XC] Lead Head]

I tried uTorrent, I had a download going at about 200kb/s, Switched to Azureus with tht same torrent, jumped to around 300-400kbps

[phelan1777]

I think everyone is going to have a different experience with each program because of leechs/seeds/connection/route of date/servers/firewalls/traffic/users/etc.

Some of us are lucky some aren't.

I ahve yet to see a Download hold at more then 150kbps at home, school, my gf's house, all have various connections. THOUGH I didn't see 3MBs on a small program download on a school computer. But certainly not on a torrent/P2P program.

[Sucka]

utorrent

[elec999]

Azureus loaded with options and plugins.
Utorrent small and light
Thanks

[epion2985]

I use azureus but there is another program that is the same thing but not java baised, I have been meaning to make the switch but have been busy. Dont remember the name.

[Eliminator1]

utorrent (no need to install and very simple)+ supertorrents.org= 190kbps with a 1.5MB connection (MAX speed).

[[XC] Angstrom]

utorrent (once the ports are open)

[Richie P]

Azureus loaded with options and plugins.
Utorrent small and light
Thanks

Spot on. Azureus if you want a fully featured client that it platform independant (What i use for WinXP and Fedora when I have it installed)

Utorrent is a very good, compact lightweight client as well.

[phelan1777]

Using Azureus more so recently.

[SPiKE]

utorrent is the best for me
Tracker: Torrenbytes - Torrenleech - Pisexy - Wild-bytes - Filelist - Demonoid - Torrent Damage - Bitsoup

http://epiz.com.ar/EPiZ/No%20llores.jpg

[illmatik]

utorrent + demonoid.com :)

I Second that!! the 155kb uTorrent.exe does everything I needed from Azureus without Java, without crashing, and without serious resource consumption. Right now I'm seeding and leeching over 40 moderately large torrents while consuming 9 Megs of RAM and the occasional cpu spike up anywhere up to 30% when loading/rechecking/completing files. Moves and sorts my .torrent and download files upon completion to my specifications and allows me to shape my bandwidth in any amount of ways from giving max priority to the stuff I want now and nicely rotating my seeds to get my ratios in perfect order in the shortest amount of time (great for demonoid fiends :)

I'm still in shock over how many features they were able to cram into a program of that size (~150kb) that doesnt have a single tentacle into your system config unless you choose to place it in your starup folder ;)

[jrw]

I love utorrent as well.

Standalone apps and progs are generally AWSOME.

[whoodiestyle]

utorrent + demonoid.com :)

yup there a great mix if anyone needs a registration key feel free to pm me

[phelan1777]

yup there a great mix if anyone needs a registration key feel free to pm me


reg key for demonoid?

[Mortal]

uTorrent and nothing but uTorrent. I've been using it pretty much since the time it went public and haven't looked back since. :)

Previous to that it was Eike Frost's Experimental Client, then SHAD0W's Experimental Client and then Azureus.

[phelan1777]

I can get decent speeds to save my life, but uploads go pretty well, it really pisses me off. I have tried about every different setting I can find and still get :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty DL speeds

[4Qman]

use torrentspy.com and bittornado

Yep:D

[nfm]

BitComet is #1 :toast:

[eBoy0]

azureus

[X3non]

uTorrent's the best for me. :cool:

[drtitanium0]

Personaly my favorite is BitLord. I've used azeurus and like BitLord better.

[Sparky]

I never had any success with any torrent at all. I download the .torrent file, run Bittorrent or whatever, and all it does is sit there and do nothing. I left it for 24 hours and it still was at 0% with no ETA.

I'm probably just doing something wrong but I gave up. Not like I had a big use for it anyway.

[Repoman]

uTorrent and nothing but uTorrent. I've been using it pretty much since the time it went public and haven't looked back since. :)

FTW.

basically the best one out there, no need to use anything else.

I use isohunt.com and mininova.org for torrents

[Shpoon]

Azereus using torrentspy, torrentbox, or isohunt.

[ScottFern]

Utorrent FTW.

[jkresh]

uTorrent, Azerous isint bad and has sime nice features/plugins but it can eat cpu clocks (even on a nice dual core setup) and memory (yea Java)

[InSanCen]

uTorrent

FirstTorrent client I have ever got on with... it's managed to stay installed for 2 weeks now

[SoF]

for getting the WM games for my TV collection I use BitComet...not the fastest but better regarding resources as azureus (think I miss-spelled it as always :D )

[4Qman]

Tryed them all, thought it was bittornado.

Well all i can say UTORRENT RULES!!!!!!!!!!:D

[The_Hardstylez]

Bitcomet :toast:

[bizkit35461]

Bitlord:banana:

[TyroPyro]

Azureus + Safepeer ;)

[EneergE]

uTorrent

[Zenphic]

Nothing beats the good ol' Azureus, although quite high on resources.
uTorrent is a good and smaller alternative :)

Don't forget to get PeerGuardian while downloading!

[WesM63]

uTorrent +fiftyelven

[osiris999]

utorrent for me

[phelan1777]

I am so sick of net getting halfway decent DL speeds. It's really pissing me off.

I have tried getting dl's from at least three different locations, all with DSL or faster, tried different TOrrent programs, have tried different torrents, tried for the same torrrent with different computers and lucky to get above 60-80KPS..

I am seriously doubting people getting 100+kPS downloads.

How the hell do I configure the programs to maximize speeds?

[WesM63]

Can't help you, just depends on the seeders IIRC. Some torrents I get 80k others 200-300k.

[phelan1777]

Can't help you, just depends on the seeders IIRC. Some torrents I get 80k others 200-300k.


yeah but can you guess your AVG speed?

[WesM63]

My avg speed? I have no clue.. just depends.. i never see one below 55k thou.

[RAGING DRAGON]

I used to use ABC, now I only use uTorrent. The best by far and very very good with system resources!

[GOATSLAYER]

uTorrent FTW.

[[XC] moddolicous]

The original bittorrent works best for me. Right now I'm download @ 17kbs and uploading @ 41kbs.

[[cTx]Philosophy]

U T O R R E N T

[Teratism]

Utorrent or Azureus easily.

[dig412]

uTorrent demolishes everything. It has almost all the features of Azeurus, but without the resource use. The webui should be coming out soon, then it will be perfect :D

[ohmygod1986]

It has to be BitComet or uTorrent ... Azureus is out ...

[dig412]

BitComet is alright, but some private trackers ban it because it used to ignore sharing restrictions in torrents.

[rpg711]

bitcomet... downloading fear combat at 1000kb/s... ya

[bizkit35461]

I use Bitlord and it works amazing. Always get fast speeds

[dig412]

I use Bitlord and it works amazing. Always get fast speeds
Dude, BiLord is Bitcomet engine with spyware...

[lawrywild]

I use Bitlord and it works amazing. Always get fast speeds

ROFL

They just completely stole Bitcomet's whole program, changed a few icons and chucked in some spyware... ROFL

[Eliminator1]

ABC and utorrent.

[Martijn]

BitComet or Azureus works fine for me :)

[crackmann]

ABC - another bittorrent client...
the best
its on source forge...

[ineedaname]

I think a lot of ppl who have posted probably haven't tried many other BT clients.

I've tried at least 6 clients and uTorrent has been the best so far. Small footprint, fast and has almost all the options you can think of, not to mention it was one of the first to implament protocol encryption. Entire program is only 161kB.

[breakfromyou]

utorrent. my favorite by far. used to use azureus the memory hog. not anymore.

[Toreri]

what torrent was it...500kb/sec???

wow..the highest i've reached with azureus was like 150-200

i use azureus and i usually reach maximum speed of my connection, which is 900kb/s. of course i use a very xtrem torrent site to reach those speeds ;)

[schumifer]

utorrent ,having 2 gigs ram does not mean i 'll be using the heaviest programs around.

[dissident]

another vote for utorrent.

[古強者死神]

I used to use utorrent, till I had like 100 files that I had to re-download when the connection got interupted in a power outage and all of them got curropted. Now I use Az it works better with the extra features and plugin's and even tho people say its a memory hog, I never use more than 2% of my memory so its not a big deal, I can easily play online games while its running with no issues.

Stock out of the box Utorrent may be a very good competitor but when you factor in all the plugin's and extras Az offers I think it wins. Also it just works with my system better.

I have never got my max connection speed out of a torrent, most I have seen is 1MB/s when my max is 15mb/s I usually have a 150kb/s upload set wich puts most of my downloads back to a 1:1 share rate very fast without killing off my upload bandwidth.

There is also the idea that Az is open source like all the other BT clients except Utorrent wich is a closed source, and they did some sort of merger not long ago. Too fishy for me.

[Supertim0r]

utorrent

downloading around 1.2-1.4TB / month (without the problems of azureus)

[Xplorer4x4]

I started of using azureus but seen many recommendations for utorrent and switched and saw how much of a resource hog azureus was when compared to utorrent. I tried bitLord and ABC but i liked uTorrent the best for reasons i cant recall right now.

uTorrent may lack a few features azureus does which are nice features and all but not really all that great especially at the cost of resources.

[Daveb2012]

MY ISP disabled my Internet this morning I was using Utorrent & ABC. I woke up and my home page was telling me some thing about copy right infridgement, I had to call to get it re-activated, they told me one more time if it happens they will permintly deny me access, and I will have to find a new ISP? Any one have any tips or programs to avoid this in the future?? How in the hell does my ISP know what files im downloading, how does it work?

[biohead]

I use azureus, it's really fast compared to other basic bittorrent programs.

[Attitudx]

I use azureus, as well just have to figure out my router firewall or open a port or something :)

[ferds]

uTorrent user here. im very satisfied with it..

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

MY ISP disabled my Internet this morning I was using Utorrent & ABC. I woke up and my home page was telling me some thing about copy right infridgement, I had to call to get it re-activated, they told me one more time if it happens they will permintly deny me access, and I will have to find a new ISP? Any one have any tips or programs to avoid this in the future?? How in the hell does my ISP know what files im downloading, how does it work?

I'd just get an new ISP if they're gonna be that much of a pain in the rear.

This doesn't help you (unless you move :P ), but this site compares ALL the ISP's across Canada:

http://www.canadianisp.ca

Maybe you guys have an American equivalent?


EDIT:

Maybe this?
http://www.theispguide.com/

[alexio]

I use azureus, it's really fast compared to other basic bittorrent programs.
It tends to take a :banana::banana::banana::banana:load of memory and it also likes to crash. In general I don't like programs made in Java.

I've been using Bittornado for a very long time now, and although it's not as populair as it once was (for whatever reason), I still like it very much.

[biohead]

It tends to take a :banana::banana::banana::banana:load of memory and it also likes to crash. In general I don't like programs made in Java.

I've been using Bittornado for a very long time now, and although it's not as populair as it once was (for whatever reason), I still like it very much.
Yea I had the crashes too and looked it up. Run Netlimiter (1.30 the old one) when using Azureus (u don't have to set limits or anything) and it won't close until all downloads are finished. I've never seen it take a lot of memory, and even if it did, I wouldn't see the problem. No gaming when it's uploading uberfast. Btw, be sure that the NAT in Azureus isn't blocked, that makes a lot of difference.
Before Azureus I was using Shareaza and although it did the job pretty well, Azureus just 'pwnz' Shareaza bigtime, for example when a torrent has 1000 seeds, Azureus actually finds them, unlike Shareaza.

[Daveb2012]

I'd just get an new ISP if they're gonna be that much of a pain in the rear.

This doesn't help you (unless you move :P ), but this site compares ALL the ISP's across Canada:

http://www.canadianisp.ca

Maybe you guys have an American equivalent?


EDIT:

Maybe this?
http://www.theispguide.com/

i was just wondering if there were some program i could run so they couldn't monitor me?

[Nosfer@tu]

It dosent appear any of you know about http://www.utorrent.com/

Quite sad accualy :) It has the smallest resurce demande of all the programs i Know, and has quite a few sttings anyway :)

[IMCL85]

I use Emule and bitcomit

[Shark-357]

uTorrent user here

[tzitzos]

azureus here too ;)

[rpg711]

MY ISP disabled my Internet this morning I was using Utorrent & ABC. I woke up and my home page was telling me some thing about copy right infridgement, I had to call to get it re-activated, they told me one more time if it happens they will permintly deny me access, and I will have to find a new ISP? Any one have any tips or programs to avoid this in the future?? How in the hell does my ISP know what files im downloading, how does it work?
i guess u have to get a very advanced firewall, enable windows firewall, close all ports open to ur system, and block all ports but the needed ones
that should keep the isp "hackers" out

[Bail_w]

i was just wondering if there were some program i could run so they couldn't monitor me?


Just switch over to another ISP. you cant stop them from monitoring you if they want to.

[ineedaname]

I've tried all the biggest BT clients and Utorrent has been the best all around so far. If you haven't tried it then take a look and you'll probably come 2 like it as i do.

[ineedaname]

i was just wondering if there were some program i could run so they couldn't monitor me?


Er i'm no expert but have u tried turning on encryption? I know azerus utorrent and bitcomet have encryption. That'll probably help. But I agree that you should probably just get a new isp.

[cantankerous]

without a doubt and hands down utorrent kicks some serious arse.

[Makubex_GB]

uTorrent, no contest.

[NO1B4ME]

uTorrent, no contest.


thisi s what i use 2.

[flavoraid]

azereus ftw

[XSAlliN]

Another vote for Azureus ;)

[somwhere_there]

my vote goes for uTorrent - used Azureus, but it became quite resource hog, when there were 40+ torrents going paralel.

[ex2cib]

my vote goes for uTorrent - used Azureus, but it became quite resource hog, when there were 40+ torrents going paralel.


same here

i like the fact that utorrent immediately starts once i tell it to. no loading plugins and 70+ torrents:p:

[Vapor]

uTorrent here as well....I'd put Azureus a few spots below the standard BT client...I just can't stand Java applications.

Anyway, uTorrent has all the good features of Azureus with none of the slowness nonsense. In fact, it's the fastest loading/downloading BT client I've ever used.

[bullet2urbrain]

uTorrent here as well....I'd put Azureus a few spots below the standard BT client...I just can't stand Java applications.

Anyway, uTorrent has all the good features of Azureus with none of the slowness nonsense. In fact, it's the fastest loading/downloading BT client I've ever used.


BitComet here... never found a reason not to use it.
someone wanna give me a synopsis as to why use uTorrent over BitComet?

[dig412]

Er i'm no expert but have u tried turning on encryption? I know azerus utorrent and bitcomet have encryption. That'll probably help. But I agree that you should probably just get a new isp.
I know Azureus and uTorrent have 'lazy bitfield' and 'header encryption' that prevent your ISP from telling you have bit-torrent.

[Alm]

BitComet

[osiris999]

utorrent

[oshox]

Azureus is great, as in it has more features than you could ever possibly uitilize.

But the winner is uTorrent. I have 512mb RAM, so it's nice to have a client that only uses 6mb of RAM instead of Azureus or BitComet which use >50

[Knight]

Sorry for this lousy question, but what is a torrent used for? :cool:

[ferds]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

[Makubex_GB]

uTorrent of course.

[Asazman]

bitcomet, i like it

[Duh]

Azureus. I like everything except it eats my RAM :S

[faruquehabib]

i use utorrent, and i am very satisfied. it is very simple to use.

[Asazman]

bitcomet, i like it

i'm gonna take this back, i really like the default bit torrent software.

[[cTx]Philosophy]

I beleive I posted here before, but anywho...
Utorrent ownz all.

[[XC] moddolicous]

I'm gonna take back what I originally said and change it to Azureus. Lots of details and info and fast (once you get the nat thing to work). Only downside, which has been stated before, it is eats up my ram. I'll have to give utorrent a try one day.

[entropy]

uTorrent - compact, fast, reliable. It is how software SHOULD get made.

Of course, for real downloading I use UseNet ;)

[OkydOky]

Like many: uTorrent, for torrents.

[Kingcarcas]

uTorrent:toast:

[awdrifter]

BitSpirit.

[TrancëJay]

uTorrent

[Solarfall]

i've been using azureus for ages now. it's the best imo.

[Omastar]

Whatever you use, uTorrent is better.

(I use uTorrent if you couldn't tell ;))

[TaPaKaH]

BitComet 0.63 :D

[LiQU!D]

uTorrent, very first torrent program that I used on my own PC.

[HappyUser]

Azureus. I like everything except it eats my RAM :S


u got a sexy body :banana:

[Dr.No.pt]

BitSpirit here and it rocks !! :slapass: :woot:

[alejo]

I love uTorrent. Fits in well with the theme/icon set I run. Plus it's just a great piece of software all-around.

[Knight]

A little OT.

My friend just got busted using a torrent to get a PC game. All he got was a letter in the mail. Any ways to get around this type of situation?

[ghcmonkey]

I'd have to say BitComet. I find it the easiest to tweak and i got great speeds from it.

[dracoonpit]

Using &#181;torrent and azureus - both working great.

[Makubex_GB]

&#181;torrent for me.

[ZL1Killa]

u torrent... switched from azureus to u torrent and LUV it

[[XC] DragonOrta]

uTorrent, because my site banned BitComet.

[Drunner611]

Azureus, but I'll have to give utorrent a try.

[Shaolin3a]

&#181;torrent is pretty good, better than Azureus to me, though I only tried Azureus once a year or so ago.

[deepsilver]

azureus @ server :toast:, but µtorrent on my notebook and mainrig. ;)

[rvd]

stick with the orig shadows experimental bittornado

[jabski]

utorrent is the best and doesnt rape your ram :)

[serialk11r]

Bitcomet!!!

[vcas5]

azureus

[Brettbeck]

I have used just about every version of bittorrent there is. I'm currently using azureus but i'm not overly impressed with its speeds anymore. I don't really use it much but I will give the newest version of uTorrent a go sometime.

[Cobalt]

Azureus didn't impress me at all. Too many settings to get wrong and it got half the speeds of BitComet which I used before. I guess if I could figure out the best settings it would have been fine but I couldn't get it to play nice with my router no matter what I did.

&#181;Torrent on the other hand worked with great speeds and no tweaking needed at all, so that's what I use at the moment.

[Amplified]

µtorrent and I've been meaning to try out BitTyrant too.

[nn_step]

µtorrent and I've been meaning to try out BitTyrant too.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070104-8544.html
not exactly something one would say is good for the torrent community

[Vapor]

BitTyrant good for high speed connections? I might have to give it a go....:p:

Then again, I've never had a speed issue with &#181;torrent.....especially not upload speeds (hits the 2.5MB/s limit I set in minutes...).

[cursivearmy1]

utorrent. it works great and I don't have to install it.

[dirtwarrior]

µtorrent for me.
How is this pronounced. I use it but dont know how to say it?

[Vapor]

Technically it's micro-torrent, but I call it you-torrrent :shrug:

[Brettbeck]

lol I call it you-torrent too.

IIRC BitTornado is the smallest client I have used.

[neoman]

uTorrent

[zerotol]

another happy u-torrent user here :wave:

[SkylinGTR26]

&#181;torrent is the best client and araditracker is the best tracker :D

[romantic]

I was using Azureus before but it takes too much resources for my notebook so i changed to utorrent and it works great :toast: