Absolute best bittorrent client?

utorrent became popular because of its small footprint and filesize, its main benefit was it was something like a 200kb exe that didnt need installing.

dont have a clue if its still like that or not
 
Thanks for the responses guys - as I suspected, uTorrent is the way forward.

To the guys who suggested Transmission - erk :eek: When I had Ubuntu it was the single worst client I had ever used.
 
Azureus.

uTorrent always caps my download speed to about 30KB/s, because "its too fast for my hard drive", Azureus lets me download at a full 2.30MB/s without any issues.

Yes, I tried to fix it, it still caps the speeds.
 
asim18 said:
Azureus.

uTorrent always caps my download speed to about 30KB/s, because "its too fast for my hard drive", Azureus lets me download at a full 2.30MB/s without any issues.

Yes, I tried to fix it, it still caps the speeds.
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Azureus is the worst bittorrent client I have ever used. it's slow and clunky and HUGE and uses a magnificent amount of processing power and RAM for what it does.

your uTorrent problem sounds bizzare, frankly.
 
I loved how little CPU uTorrent absorbed, but I found the rest of my network suffered for it. Multiplayer on the PS3, Wii and X360 was stuttery; websites took longer to load, on other machines and especially on the torrenting machine.

I've now moved to bittorrent. It uses a fair bit more CPU power, but I've got some to spare on this rig, and doesn't punish my network anywhere near as much. In fact I don't even notice the difference in multiplayer, between torrenting and not, whereas with uTorrent it was barely playable.
 
uTorrent. It just does the job with a minimalistic footprint, and a nice, clean UI.
 
Ease said:
I loved how little CPU uTorrent absorbed, but I found the rest of my network suffered for it. Multiplayer on the PS3, Wii and X360 was stuttery; websites took longer to load, on other machines and especially on the torrenting machine.

I've now moved to bittorrent. It uses a fair bit more CPU power, but I've got some to spare on this rig, and doesn't punish my network anywhere near as much. In fact I don't even notice the difference in multiplayer, between torrenting and not, whereas with uTorrent it was barely playable.
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I am having the same problems as you experienced. Running utorrent even capping upload speeds to 9kbs, creates huge problems when trying to open websites. For some reason it really punishes the network.
 
Good qos plus a properly configured utorrent will solve all network issues. The last couple build, since the introduction of uTP, have a cache bug which is in the process of being fixed, that messes with download speeds. Not surprising since every new technology has it's glitches, but it only seems to effect small number of people.

However this should not be confused with uTP throttling as designed. If it's slowing itself because of network congestion between peers* and you switch to say bittorrent i.e. TCP to increase your download speed (which for the record, is not the point of a torrent) then you're simply adding to the problem. They'll all be uTP eventually anyway.

*target latency is 100ms
 
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