What's the best bittorrent client? Options

[Hitesh]

utorrent for windows
azureus for mac ..pretty good never crashes and i download a lot wid good speeds

[johnniecarcinogen]

utorrent on windows
ktorrent on linux (kde ofcourse, as good as or better than utorrent)
azureus on OS X (I'd like to find a better one though)

the key to using any of them is to manually forward a port on your router rather than use upnp

[macprodan]

to be honest, i used to be a Big fan of Azureus back in my Windows Days.. lol. i find the UI on Azureus horrible in OS X.

No i would like to promote Transmission, nice more mac'ish UI. Works just as well as Azureus in my experience.

[BRP]

utorrent on windows
ktorrent on linux (kde ofcourse, as good as or better than utorrent)
azureus on OS X (I'd like to find a better one though)

the key to using any of them is to manually forward a port on your router rather than use upnp

Maybe it's changed in the year or so since I used it, but as much as I like KDE (KDE WOOOOOO!), ktorrent stinks (stunk?). It starts downloading at the beginning... and goes through each piece little by little, till it gets to the end. Naturally, it goes very slow and I was wondering what was taking it until I opened up the torrent in Azureus....

But my favorite BT client in Linux by far is rtorrent. Simple, lightweight, console-based, extremely efficient (read: bandwidth go boom and argh), and fast as you'll let it be.

I haven't gotten rtorrent to build on my macs ever (I've only tried it on the MacBook, so support is probably still not there yet), so I've used Bits on Wheels because it's really cool. I haven't tried it on my MacBook just yet (it isn't Unibin right now), but I'll look at Transmission even though it doesn't seem to have all the features I want, just because it has nice aesthetics to it.

In my opinion, Azureus is the best on any platform, but since it's a resource hog (JAVA GAHHH) and I don't have any computers with RAM to spare, I don't use it.

[johnniecarcinogen]

I used to never give ktorrent a try but I can assure you it is nice now. It does seem to download the first half of the torrent before the end half but It didn't seem to compromize speed. (i stopped ktorrent and resumed with azureus and kt was faster). the options allow you to choose memory imprint size, etc. but for some reason you have to enable the sys tray icon

[-TiLT-]

I just gave Bits on Wheels a try. Its ok. User friendly I think. Azureus wont start here, dunno why.

[amdprophet]

Sorry to be a nag, but I believe you mean, "What's the best torrent client." BitTorrent is a misused term. I'm using BitLord in Windows XP x64 right now, Azureus in OS X, and BitTorrent for Linux I believe.

[henbjo]

BitLord here as well. Very nice client. Very user friendly and quite powerful.

[ampTK]

On Windows µTorrent
On OS X Azureus Altough the UI is terrible and I hate that the app closes when one closes the window)
on Linux Bittorrent but I haven't usen it in a wile

[BaselineAce]

Long time Azureus user.

[Victor Gil]

I like µtorrent on Windows, very powerful and Lightweight, on Mac i'm not decided yet, I like Transmission but it has not much info about the torrents, like tomato torrent but it's very CPU consuming.

[Pantalaimon]

Transmission runs greater and faster than azureus and it downloads faster too and doesnt speed down de broadband

[amdprophet]

I could be wrong, but I don't think torrent downloading speeds is dependant on the software you are using. I believe it all has to do with how many seeders, and how much upload bandwidth they've dedicated for us to use.

[Pantalaimon]

yep, but strangely transmission download files (at least for me) faster than azureus

its weird O.o

[u1m2]

another vote for the utorrent for windows

[BRP]

I could be wrong, but I don't think torrent downloading speeds is dependant on the software you are using. I believe it all has to do with how many seeders, and how much upload bandwidth they've dedicated for us to use.

Bad torrent clients can make you download slower than your bandwidth can handle. Also, some trackers ban certain clients because they do bad things (like poll the tracker too much).

[INFNITE]

uTorrent on Windows and Transmission on OS X

[U.C.]

Bitcomet on Windows. I hate tracker handling in uTorrent. In OSX i cant find the right one. I need one with which i can select which files to DL from a torrent.

[G_G]

In OSX i cant find the right one. I need one with which i can select which files to DL from a torrent.

Azureus, none other.

And those who think Azureus is fugly, so it is. But you can make it look a little more OS X-like by checking off "Use closeable tabs" and "Use Faggoty Tabs" under Interface>Display. Makes it at least a little more tolerable.

Remember to update your Java to J2SE 5 Release 4.

[NeSuKuN]

Azureus FTW!