Best BitTorrent Client?

uTorrent (Micro Torrent) or Azureus.

I have Bethere 24 Meg Broadband and they both work fine, I tend to use uTorrent as it uses less resources when I leave it seeding in the background (which I normally do as I have a 1.3Mb upload on Be*).
 
gurusan said:
newsgroups? enlighten me
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It's a whole other thread, but read up on slycks (ancient) guide to newsgroups (google it). Yeah they cost a bit of money, but so do decent private trackers. I've always maxed my connection out even at Edinburgh Uni halls on their silly bandwidth pipe. Literally i watched a gig of data donload within the minute... Easynews for unbeatable great features, newshosting for general all rounder, giganews for largest retention (its not everything though).
 
Azureus. Attempting to explain why it is the best is futile, a program is only as good to one individual as how useful it is to them. Try them all, that's how I found the best. :)
 
No one seems to have mentioned uTorrent yet? :D


gsf600y said:
I got fed up of uTorrent crashing.
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If utorrent is crashing your system, then have you tried sorting your system out?. You are perhaps the one and only person on the planet who has experienced crashing in utorrent.
 
I used to use uTorrent, it was great but for some reason it started to disconnect me from my internet, I would have to restart the whole router to get it working. So I switched over to BitLord and its been fine ever since.
 
dss said:
I used to use uTorrent, it was great but for some reason it started to disconnect me from my internet, I would have to restart the whole router to get it working. So I switched over to BitLord and its been fine ever since.
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That's normally a setting on the router. I recently started playing TF2 beta and for some reason the server listing process (where it pings all the servers) crashes the router occasionally. I found out that the firewall was being hostile to some incoming TCP requests, something related to the TCP timeout. I disabled the routers firewall and it's been fine ever since.

On a speedtouch router this option is called TCP Checks and can be disabled using:

firewall config tcpchecks none

from a telnet terminal. I am guessing it is something related to a flood of TCP connections and certain routers (the BT Home Hub is a speedtouch inside).
 
FatRakoon said:
If utorrent is crashing your system, then have you tried sorting your system out?. You are perhaps the one and only person on the planet who has experienced crashing in utorrent.
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I said uTorrent was crashing, not my entire system. Everything else I've got works fine. I tried changing lots of settings within uTorrent, but no joy. Also tried various versions of uTorrent.

I then happened to install Steam had problems with it crashing, and read about lots of people having problems with the new Steam version (which has some kind of bittorrent code in) crashing on their dual core systems, and that setting affinity to one cpu helped.
I thought I'd try it in uTorrent, and it also seemed to fix the crashing problem.

But there seemed no simple way to permanently set affinity, so tried out Azureus. I'd been using uTorrent for a long time, but I very happy with Azureus.
 
Isn't utorrent the same as azureus, but then not running on the resource hogging java engine?


Anyhow utorrent!
 
Right before I ask this question I am infact wearing a full tin foil suit and matching hat.

But bittorrent bought utorrent, and bittorrent joined forces with MPAA,any weight in this? Should I start using another program?
 
tried
abc ..caused loads of crashes
azureus ate up all my resources so i couldnt game and download without pauses and lag
tried a few others...they all pretty much sucked

there is only 1 real choice....does it really need another mention ?
 
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