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368824 2005-07-03 02:17:00 Hello all , could people give me the names / reviews on the bittorrent clients they use and their safety and performance?

Thanks
taxboy4 (579)
368825 2005-07-05 02:01:00 I use a client called ABC - its fairly simple to use and gets the job done.

http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/

A lot of others use Azureus - it's more advanced than ABC, but didnt add any features that I needed.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
autechre (266)
368826 2005-07-05 02:04:00 Google.

a.scarywater.net


Azureus is all you need.
Metla (12)
368827 2005-07-05 02:19:00 I used azureus in the past, as it is a good client with all the bells 'n whistles you could hope for.
But when I reinstalled the my OS, I just went for the simplicity of Bittornado
http://www.bittornado.com/
It dosent have all the features of other clients, but it has the basics. Which suits me (I use it to download foreign language free-to-air programs from overseas for Mrs Nyuuji, programs I otherwise couldn't get for love nor money.)
I recomend trying a few of them and seeing which suits you best. Any in the link from Melta's post are good.
Nyuuji (5460)
368828 2005-07-05 11:59:00 Azureus is choice coz you can host too :D Chilling_Silence (9)
368829 2005-07-05 12:21:00 Yeah go for Azureus - it's the first and only torrent client I have used.

Haven't seen the point or any advantage in trying anything else...

Have been using it on XP for ages and just got it running on Debian Linux :) :)
HadO (796)
368830 2005-07-05 12:43:00 I use Bit Lord 1.1, seems to be alright. Haven't tried any others, how do you get full speed downloads anyways? does it depend on the seeders? and less downloaders? never seem to get over 100KB/s down. Sleepy (7202)
368831 2005-07-05 13:17:00 I use Bitcomet, it's real user friendly, and it has a disk cache function (helps buffer data as it's writtem to harddisk, reducing damage)

And best part is, it has a function where you choose which part of a torrent file you want to download.
jesseycy (1046)
368832 2005-07-05 19:59:00 I use the orriginal bit torrent client under linux.
I open a terminal and type btdownloadcurses.py <file>.torrent . none of this gui crap :nerd:
ILikeLinux (1669)
368833 2005-07-06 00:07:00 Another very good commandline *nix client: ctorrent. Written in C, very small, set and forget. vinref (6194)
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