POLL: Your Bittorrent Client of Choice

[hdeck]

experimental

 

[faenix]

Azureus for life!

 

[chuckywang]

ABC, but you can't select what files you want to download with ABC. They will implement that feature in the next version.

 

[Ryan]

I've always used novatorrent

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
It's spelled "Azureus"

I think most of us don't mind using Azureus even though it's a system resource hog because we have an old system to dedicate to Azureus..

Bingo!

It really is a resource hog, but i use my old comp for it 24/7, so i don't care.
Azureus has too many features that i cannot live without.
E.G., limiting individual torrent upload & download speeds.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
i have torrent storm and G3 Torrent.

i should start using azeurus but that one hogs my computer up.

using bittorrent crashes my cable modem or router. not sure whats up.

yeah... i get the same problem

 

[dethman]

i also use azureus but it bugs me because it's a system hog as most have already said.

 

[thomsbrain]

I tried ABC and found

A) upload speed limiting is a sad joke
B) there can be 10 seeds with no clients -- but you will not be downloading jack sh!t
C) no placeholders for files on HD so everything gets fragmented to hell
D) in general, download speeds were terrible
E) my wireless connection started randomly dropping out

switched to Azureus, and although it is an incredible resource hog (that's Java for you, the worst language on the planet for actual programs), it works properly, has a better interface than ABC, and downloads about 10 times as fast as ABC. yay!

 

[mobobuff]

The original bittorrent client.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Azureus > *

 

[yhelothar]

BitComet > Azureus > *

 

[Bassyhead]

Azureus

 

[StageLeft]

Azureus, but as of last week I'm done with BT for good, and all newsgroups going forward.

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: jdiddy
Azureus

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: hdeck
experimental

Ditto.

Works well for me.

Koing

 

[DurocShark]

Went from the original to ABC. Much better...

 

[bandana163]

Azureus 2.1.0.4.
It uses about 2-3% CPU power and 20-60MB RAM. Why is it a big resource hog?

The new version (2.2.0.0) causes 100% CPU load randomly, so for the time being, I'll stick with the old one.

 

[Kelemvor]

Azureus usually has the most people but I tried it and didn't like it. I went back to ABC and still use it. Like it a lot.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Azureus 2.1.0.4.
It uses about 2-3% CPU power and 20-60MB RAM. Why is it a big resource hog?

The new version (2.2.0.0) causes 100% CPU load randomly, so for the time being, I'll stick with the old one.

update to JRE 1.5 and itll fix that CPU issue, it did for me anyway

 

[saxophonoia]

i'm partial to bitTornado, just because that's the first one i used so i'm sticking with it for awhile.

 

[Qwest]

G3 Torrent

easily get over 100k on everything.

 

[maziwanka]

i use ABC, but azureus supports dling single files and all, so i can see why that's the current fav in the polls now...

 

[new2AMD]

Azureus

 

[Thraxen]

Azureus sucks. I'm not using that resource hog when there are much simpler clients that do what I want. I use BitTornado. Very simple and I can cap the upload so I can still do other internet tasks at the same time. That's all I really need. Also, I've never really found any client to be faster than another. It's all just a roll of dice on who you get connected to and what their upload happens to be. Using BitTornado I have no problems regularly reaching my download cap (3.2 Mbps).

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm lazy, so I'm just using whatever plug-in is built in to eDonkey.