Recommend me a nice, lite Torrent client

slipd · 20 Oct 2016 at 21:28

As above people, I rarely use torrents these days but when I do it's nice not to be bombarded with ads and bloat...

Thanks.

CaptainCrash · 20 Oct 2016 at 21:39

qBittorrent: http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Like uTorrent used to be before it all went pear-shaped.

Orcvader · 21 Oct 2016 at 00:04

CaptainCrash said:
qBittorrent: http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Like uTorrent used to be before it all went pear-shaped.

+1 moved away from uTorrent and eventually settled on this.

tnx · 21 Oct 2016 at 06:38

I just use an old version of uTorrent. 2.1 I think. Feel sure I have 1.6 on disc in my collection.

2.1 works a treat.

swain90 · 21 Oct 2016 at 07:04

qbit torrent is very good, the web interface is quite handy too!

joeyjojo · 21 Oct 2016 at 11:45

I use deluge.

http://deluge-torrent.org/

Light and cross-platform.

Smoogels · 21 Oct 2016 at 12:19

qBitTorrent is great.

AthlonXP1800 · 21 Oct 2016 at 12:48

I use utorrent 3.4.9.

You can removed all ads and bloatware, it reduced memory footprint from 60MB I remembered last time I used years ago until I found a guide with settings to remove all ads and bloatware saw memory footprint went down to 13.9MB.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/how-to/disable-utorrent-advertisements/

I been tried many other torrent clients qbittorrent, deluge, vuze, bittorrent, bitcomet and bittornado, nothing came close to beat utorrent anti-throttling feature. I had no problem with utorrent downloaded 4GB file in 30 mins at maximum speed while upload speed capped to 10KB/s after tweaked settings included bandwidth tab changed maximum numbers of connected peers per torrent from 50 to 250. I am on Virgin Media 150Mbit broadband.

There are no torrent client that beat utorrent at fastest downloading speed.

KIA · 21 Oct 2016 at 21:50

qBittorrent or Deluge.

CaptainShiznit · 23 Oct 2016 at 00:52

CaptainCrash said:
qBittorrent: http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Like uTorrent used to be before it all went pear-shaped.

Another +1 for this

bscott · 23 Oct 2016 at 08:15

joeyjojo said:
I use deluge.

http://deluge-torrent.org/

Light and cross-platform.

+1 for Deluge.

Vernon Pinkley · 23 Oct 2016 at 09:58

tnx said:
I just use an old version of uTorrent. 2.1 I think. Feel sure I have 1.6 on disc in my collection.

2.1 works a treat.

2.2.1 was the last unmolested version, still works

malachi · 23 Oct 2016 at 12:53

what happened with utorrent?

Orcvader · 23 Oct 2016 at 14:43

malachi said:
what happened with utorrent?

Bittorent bought them and started bloating it up with ads. While you can disable them I was a bit fed up of how heavy it was getting so looked for another client. I tried Deluge and while it was nice I didn't really feel comfortable with it. qBittorent felt more old utorrent like for me.

marc2003 · 23 Oct 2016 at 15:23

Vernon Pinkley said:
2.2.1 was the last unmolested version, still works

Yep, I'm still using it.

Kiyoshi · 24 Oct 2016 at 10:58

Still using whatever the latest build of uTorrent 2.2.1 is too.

RaV · 24 Oct 2016 at 11:29

Just to mention something different. Ive been using Tixati for maybe the last two years and its a really solid client.

Troop · 24 Oct 2016 at 11:34

Still Using uTorrent 2.2.1

joeyjojo · 24 Oct 2016 at 14:20

AthlonXP1800 said:
I had no problem with utorrent downloaded 4GB file in 30 mins at maximum speed while upload speed capped to 10KB/s after tweaked settings included bandwidth tab changed maximum numbers of connected peers per torrent from 50 to 250. I am on Virgin Media 150Mbit broadband.

Is that 10 KBps upload a typo or are you shamelessly leeching?

There are many good reasons for keeping the number of connections fairly low (like 50), for one it helps to maintain a smaller number of fast peers which is better for you and the swarm.

meandu229 · 24 Oct 2016 at 14:24

bscott said:
+1 for Deluge.

+1
Extra points if you have a server or a pi or something to chuck it on then just use the web UI and let it all do it on other box.