BitTorrent clients

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Bullzeye
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05 Jan 2010, 2:00 pm

I was just curious as to what BitTorrent client everybody uses.

I use BitTorrent. I used to use BitComet, until I heard that it's bad for the protocol.

shugo974
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05 Jan 2010, 2:49 pm

Vuze because i can upload videos to it like youtube

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05 Jan 2010, 2:54 pm

Transmission (daemon), because I use it on a network-server.

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05 Jan 2010, 3:05 pm

I use Vuze to search for torrents (it has a nice Firefox toolbar). Then I use Transmission for the actual downloads, because it has a very small footprint on my system & gets the job done.

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05 Jan 2010, 4:08 pm

Transmission.

UrchinStar47
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05 Jan 2010, 5:28 pm

Rtorrent or Ctorrent.

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05 Jan 2010, 9:49 pm

Vuze. I like the interface and the detailed statistics for DL/UL.

I find it strange that so many people claim to use a particular client because it has a "small footprint". The last time I noticed a performance impact from using a torrent client, was when I was running an AMD 2000xp+ system, and even then I don't think it was a big deal.

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05 Jan 2010, 10:35 pm

Transmission, because it's the default in most GNOME-based Linux distros and it's the best-supported under OS X. Never tried out any of the others, but my torrent needs are simple enough that I just use the first thing I find.

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05 Jan 2010, 11:07 pm

Orwell wrote:

what the old dude said.

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06 Jan 2010, 7:33 am

uTorrent

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Laar
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06 Jan 2010, 10:40 am

nodice1996 wrote:

uTorrent

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06 Jan 2010, 12:30 pm

Bittorrent 6.0 on my Doze box and Transmission on my Linux boxes.

Which I only use for distro downloads. *wink*

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