What is the best BitTorrent client?

**sameer0807** · 04-20-2005, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by ready1

http://g3torrent.sourceforge.net/

Thanks...

**lightshow** · 04-20-2005, 10:05 PM

I prefer Bittornado. When I tried Azerous (I belive it was this one that was doing this) I found out it makes a dummy file the same size of the finished file.

So if I downloaded a 4 GB file, the second I use Azerous, it makes the dummy 4 GB file. So when I had a lot of big torrent files, it always looked like I had a lot of hard drive space taken up. I just found it annying.

And Bittornado doesn't do that.

**ready1** · 04-20-2005, 11:13 PM

People that say Azureus is a resource hog either...

1. Have a really crappy computer with less than 512 MB RAM, which is a bare minimum these days.

Wow, 512mb of ram recommended just for a torrent program, i'l make sure to stear clear of that one.

**lynx** · 04-21-2005, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by lightshow

I prefer Bittornado. When I tried Azerous (I belive it was this one that was doing this) I found out it makes a dummy file the same size of the finished file.

So if I downloaded a 4 GB file, the second I use Azerous, it makes the dummy 4 GB file. So when I had a lot of big torrent files, it always looked like I had a lot of hard drive space taken up. I just found it annying.

And Bittornado doesn't do that.

"Tools/options/files/Enable incremental file creation" will stop that.

But the idea is that when you start the torrent you know you've got enough disk space. Nothing worse than being away for a couple of days only to find out that your download failed after a couple of hours because you forgot to check free disk space.

People that say Azureus is a resource hog

Azureus really WAS a resource hog with some of the earlier versions, even with the latest versions of Java. If you ran something like "Folding@Home" Azureus would cut processing by at least a quarter. Later versions are much better.

Originally Posted by ready1

Wow, 512mb of ram recommended just for a torrent program, i'l make sure to stear clear of that one.

I think you'll find the same is true for just about any BT program. It isn't the torrent program which is necessarily taking up the resources (except as I've indicated above) it is all the other stuff people tend to have running, much of it installed by their PC supplier, and when they start a BTclient it tips it over the top.

**Formula1** · 04-21-2005, 01:42 AM

I used bittornado for about 5months straight. Then i figured that since i was downloading alot with bittorrent, and from there i came to realize i had to move on to something more advanced. Because it was difficult for me to keep track of files i had to seed with bittornado, and there werent many features, like being able to ban ip and see which parts i'd downloaded. Then i downloaded and tried azureus, and knew this was something i had to use as a true BT user. Azureus all the way

**deepenigma** · 04-25-2005, 03:12 PM

Bitspirit is the best client. Every option you need is there.In fact it is the most flexible bt client. try it.

**comrade_tzar** · 04-29-2005, 02:46 PM

I use azeurus, and it seems to generally good, haven't tried biit tornado, in the end though, if it d/l's torrents its a thumbs up here....i just like the slimy blue frog on the splash screen for azeurus...