Client Faq

[bulio]

Hi everyone, I have noticed a lot of posts about "what client should I get?" and such, it drives me nuts so I have decided to post a final guide to help you choose what clent is for you..

Official Bt client

Pros:
-first client made
-pretty decent
-easy to use
Cons:
-New version popup has spyware
-Bad for multiple windows


Shadow's BT Client

Pros:
-very fast speeds
-My favorite
-ok. For multiple windows

Cons:
-Crashes on some comps if you play games while downloading something

ABC Client

Pros:
-built on shadow's experimental, using shadow's as core
-supports multiple downloads
-all downloads put into one window, less cpu usage

Cons:
-don't use client, don't know

Azures client (no link

Pros:
-good speeds
-All downloads grouped to one window

Cons:
-Linux only

turbobt

Pros:
-decent speeds

Cons:
-multiple download windows

[ZaZu]

Azureus is a Java BitTorrent client that runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. Don't know how you came to the conclusion that it only ran on Linux

I use ABC

[Xero Grid]

Shadow's actually isn't great for multiple windows because it creates a process for each download, and each opens a hidden DOS window, which isn't good for memory because they keep the memory allocated for their hidden windows.

Azureus actually has like a million features, including the support for plug-ins. I think that's at least worth mentioning, added to that fact that it is multiplatform, since it's java based.

Technically, turbobt doesn't open torrents in new windows, it opens them in different tabs.

I think storm.com/]torrentstorm is worth mentioning, too. It has interesting features, including being able to choose the downloader core, but the thing I didn't like about it was that it opened a process for each download, at least if you chose Shadow's latest as the dloader core.

-- Xero Grid --

[junkyardking]

Originally posted by bulio@25 January 2004 - 20:18
Official Bt client

Pros:
-first client made
-pretty decent
-easy to use
Cons:
-New version popup has spyware
-Bad for multiple windows

I think you should have gotten your facts straight before posting this, the version made by the original programer Bram Cohen at http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent , doesnt contain spywear, The version of it packaged with spywear, from the popup at suprnova comes from somewhere else entirely.
https://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=89108

[NotoriousBIC]

Let's call this a client faq BETA, shall we?

[Vargas]

you forgot the best client Nova Torrent
EDIT:
Pros: simple GUI (like old xolox)
configurable upload bandwidth, including number of slots
uses a credit system. it will upload the most to whomever you download the most from.
it's great for fixing kazaa downloads that you can find a torrent for, you just swap your kazaa download with the torrent download (with nova closed) and it drops bad parts and relownloads them from BT without having to redownload the entire file
It's great for reseeding torrents as well
Cons:
sorry cant think of any