Best Client?

[Macster]

What is the best bittorrent client?

[Samurai]

I've heard good things about ABC and Azereus(sp??) so try your hand at them.

[Pho3niX]

Huh ? there is no pinned topic to that question ?
God there is like one person each week asking that question.


The real answear is There is no best one, you have to try and you'll see the best one you like


So for you to try you need to know some of the existing client

First there is the official one, clean and simple, if you want to do one download at a time with no hassle get this one.

Then come the experimental version, i think there is two of them, the most know is THE SHADOW one's its claimed to be the fastest client of all. Experimental clients test news feature that migth later be included in the original version. They are more likely to crash than the official one, but they are still fairely stable.

Then there is the java one, Azureus... its the greatest of those three as its the only one that really support multiple downloading at one time. YOu can control / schedule just about anything with this one.. there is a plugin architechture and you'll be soon able to remontly control it from a web based interface. It even have an embeded tracker if you wich to start your own torrent pool.

If your question would be wich is the best client in terms of feature then there is no doubt its azureus. However azureus have two downfaces

1) Its written in java wich mean you need to install a java machine on you comp ... (its very likely you already have one if you have xp... you should still upgrade)

2) With that many feature its a bit cpu hungry ... however they have worked on alternative algorythms that seam to be better now

Now there is a fourth category... The shadow experimental client dont support managing multiple torrent natively, but it can run in the background. So there is two client that are using that feature ...

ABC
TORRENTSTORM

THey are a kind of remonte control for the shadow client ... so you have a nice window and can organise your stuff and those client will do in the background what you should be doing manually if you only had the shadow client


My advice is that... try Azureus
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

If your comp hand.. slow down to much or anything then you might need to try
ABC or TOrrent storm .. they arent as nice and intuitive as azureus but once you get used to it they are good.

[the mask]

abc does it for me

[4th gen]

Azureus for the rare occasion I use Bitt :)

[abu_has_the_power]

best:
1. shadows
2. bittornado
3. abc
4. torrentstorm

azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can't configure much

[4th gen]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@11 April 2004 - 23:21
azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can't configure much
All Bitt clients take up too many resources, the protocol is inherently heavy on resources.
Download/upload speeds are basically the same for all clients.
What do you want to configure that you can't?

[Sparkle1984]

try this one !! (http://bittornado.com/download.html) :D

[abu_has_the_power]

there r features in bittornado and shadows that azureus doesnt have. sometimes those features are very helpful

[4th gen]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@13 April 2004 - 20:36
there r features in bittornado and shadows that azureus doesnt have. sometimes those features are very helpful
What features?

[mEtho]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@12 April 2004 - 00:21
azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can't configure much
i dont think u have tried Az otherwise u whouldnt have made these comments ( java programs has always been light as fuck) <_<

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by mEtho+14 April 2004 - 06:56--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mEtho @ 14 April 2004 - 06:56)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power@12 April 2004 - 00:21
azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can&#39;t configure much
i dont think u have tried Az otherwise u whouldnt have made these comments ( java programs has always been light as fuck) <_< [/b][/quote]
i&#39;ve used azureus. it&#39;s a good client, but it hogges more resouces than shadows

[DanB]

Originally posted by mEtho+14 April 2004 - 12:56--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mEtho @ 14 April 2004 - 12:56)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power@12 April 2004 - 00:21
azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can&#39;t configure much
i dont think u have tried Az otherwise u whouldnt have made these comments ( java programs has always been light as fuck) <_< [/b][/quote]
:lol: :lol:

Azerus isn&#39;t bad at all

[tree_for]

I would say from my experience that ABC is the best I&#39;ve seen b&#39;coz I&#39;m behind a firewall&#33;
But anyway all Bit Torrent clients need sometime b4 it can pick up speed&#33;&#33;
This is true most of the times for me&#33;&#33;&#33;

[j4y3m]

Azureus is the best anyone who doesn&#39;t think so is wrong. :lol:

[sharedholder]

G3 Torrent (http://g3torrent.sourceforge.net/)

[- Nightmare -]

Originally posted by sharedholder@18 April 2004 - 03:49
G3 Torrent (http://g3torrent.sourceforge.net/)
I just uninstalled TorrentStorm to use this and so far it has great speeds. :)

[mooseman2070]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@11 April 2004 - 20:21
best:
1. shadows
2. bittornado
3. abc
4. torrentstorm

azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can&#39;t configure much
yeah you cant confgure much, but do you see the plugins it has? it connects 00ber fast, best in my opinion, dont like the interface though, abc interface owns


btw can someone PLEASE make a sticky on this? seems to be everytime i stop by here theres another one of these topics

[Pho3niX]

btw can someone PLEASE make a sticky on this

i cant agree more lol


for sure Shadow takes less ressources than Az, just compare both gui and u&#39;ll see y ....


everyone get used to one and everyone end up being so used to it, they cant stand other client

There have been alot of change in the last month for Az and whats comming is just awsome ... they have a great community too, but its just my choise as my comp can handle it. (anywais i do download the nigth when i&#39;m not on it lol)

[sharedholder]

Originally posted by Pho3niX@19 April 2004 - 23:55

btw can someone PLEASE make a sticky on this

i cant agree more lol



Sticky, Sticky &#33; :D

[NotoriousBIC]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power+14 April 2004 - 21:29--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (abu_has_the_power &#064; 14 April 2004 - 21:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by mEtho@14 April 2004 - 06:56
<!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power@12 April 2004 - 00:21
azureus is based on java. it takes up more resources and the speeds are slow and u can&#39;t configure much
i dont think u have tried Az otherwise u whouldnt have made these comments ( java programs has always been light as fuck) <_<
i&#39;ve used azureus. it&#39;s a good client, but it hogges more resouces than shadows [/b][/quote]
No you haven&#39;t really otherwise you would&#39;ve known it has the most features of all the Bittorrent clients.

It has (amongst other things): Integrated Tracker (VERY handy&#33;)
Automatic Seeding Rules (e.a. how much you want to seed etc.)
Queueing of downloads
Catagorizing of downloads
Remote Web Interface
Automatic saving of torrents etc.
Torrent Creation
Very detailed info on torrents
Active Sharing of complete Folders (just like Kazaa only through Bittorrent)
Lots of options of setting the amount of connections, ports, etc
The only thing it doesn&#39;t have is bandwidth per torrent option, which the developers of Azureus deem &#39;unfair&#39; (but you can still set your seeding amount through the seeding rules)

So contrary to what you say, I dare say that Azureus has the most options of all Bittorrent clients&#33;

As for resource hog, you should use the latest Java JRE. Then it doesn&#39;t use more resources than ABC or mutliple Shadow&#39;s windows.

edit: zpelling

[mooseman2070]

i fully agree with NotoriousBIC, and it may seem weird but am i supposed to have azureus in task manager? dont see it only java, thats a plus

also whihc BIC didnt say, least didnt think he did, was that az has loads of plugins, multiport is ahndy, lets you connect to multiple ports on a single torrent, very popular torrents have multports, east game does i believe

country locator, peer guardian, suprnova lister, hmm what else *looks on az site* hmm and a BT IRC bot, ill have to look into that one,i think it displays your speeds on irc , wait just loked, yuo can control azureus from irc, gotta try that

plus there are some "home-brew" plugins that ive seen

[xxxSHARExxx]

Originally posted by the mask@11 April 2004 - 23:34
abc does it for me
yup same here abc :D :D

but try everything to see which one works you

[danyj]

http://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/1071067635.pnghttp://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/613393957.pnghttp://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/290046040.png the best client around :D

[Wizard_Mon1]

Originally posted by danyj@21 April 2004 - 22:29
http://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/1071067635.pnghttp://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/613393957.pnghttp://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/290046040.png the best client around :D
I don&#39;t know whether its best but i use it and its very good.

In having its own tracker azures does sound interesting but i would need a better reason to change clients.

[wienerschnitzel]

anyone ever use the upnp client?

(its been my favorite since november)

[RealitY]

I use Shadow and Azureus depending on what my needs are...

[NotoriousBIC]

Originally posted by mooseman2070@21 April 2004 - 21:25
i fully agree with NotoriousBIC, and it may seem weird but am i supposed to have azureus in task manager? dont see it only java, thats a plus
That IS Azurues moose :lol:

[NotoriousBIC]

Originally posted by Wizard_Mon1+21 April 2004 - 22:42--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Wizard_Mon1 &#064; 21 April 2004 - 22:42)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-danyj@21 April 2004 - 22:29
http://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/1071067635.pnghttp://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/613393957.pnghttp://filesharingtalk.com/generator/smilies/290046040.png the best client around :D
I don&#39;t know whether its best but i use it and its very good.

In having its own tracker azures does sound interesting but i would need a better reason to change clients. [/b][/quote]
The only way I find my reasons is by trying several clients.
I&#39;ve never found these kind of threads any helpful in deciding which one is best.