Best torrent client?

iviv said:
I believe uTorrent limits your download speed if you set a stupidly low upload speed for it, could this be the problem?
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b0rn2sk8 said:
This, anything below 6 and it will limit your download.
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LMAO! Really?

:rolleyes:That's utter stupidness. Makes it useless for private trackers. I usually upload nothing and get 1.6MB/s down with Azureus.

Edit: it's not that I don't want to upload. It's just that the Seed : Peer ratio is soo steep, it's impossible for me to upload. The guys with gigabit connections take care of that.
 
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+1 µTorrent

HAd no problems with it once stup properly.
Uploads at 80-90k
DL at 2.38 (highest so far)

USing with Private trackers and no DHT.

Azureus/Vuze I used to use this and it seemed ok, them they started adding search trackers n stuff on it. Turned into crap tbh wouldn't go near it.

Anyone using PG2 or anything similar on vista?
I had to test mode vista in order to fake sign PG2 app :(
 
asim18 said:
LMAO! Really?

:rolleyes:That's utter stupidness. Makes it useless for private trackers. I usually upload nothing and get 1.6MB/s down with Azureus.

Edit: it's not that I don't want to upload. It's just that the Seed : Peer ratio is soo steep, it's impossible for me to upload. The guys with gigabit connections take care of that.
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It's OK, you don't actually have to be uploading. You just can't have the upload limit too low or it restricts your download. Don't know why. I use it OK on private trackers, though on private trackers you generally have your ratio to think about anyway.
 
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asim18 said:
LMAO! Really?

:rolleyes:That's utter stupidness. Makes it useless for private trackers. I usually upload nothing and get 1.6MB/s down with Azureus.

Edit: it's not that I don't want to upload. It's just that the Seed : Peer ratio is soo steep, it's impossible for me to upload. The guys with gigabit connections take care of that.
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It is if you manually throttle the upload, not if there is nobody available to upload to. Pretty equitable, as far as I can see.

i.e. being miserly penalises you.

edit: ditto avec Mattus
 
Unless this low-upload-cap-limits-download-speed is part of the Bit Torrent protocol, it's pretty bogus for uTorrent to enforce it.
 
From the uTorrent FAQ:

  1. 3. What does Download Limited in the status bar mean?

    This is an anti-leech protection put in µTorrent. It means your upload cap is set too low, and as such, your download is limited to 6 times that amount (3 in 1.4 build 402, 6 in 1.4.1 build 405+). It's set to 6 times the cap so that legitimate users who need that cap (dial-up, ISDN, certain slow broadband connections) are unaffected by it. It only applies to upload caps of 1-5 KiB/s.
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I agree that it's a bad decision. Leeching is bad, but if you want to leech then it should be your decision, not your torrent client's. And you might just want to leech temporarily, when your ratio is actually pretty good.
 
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µTorrent or Bittorrent for me. µTorrent doesn't seem to be working as well recently for me though, so thats why i have started to use Bittorrent :)
 
Mattus said:
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It's really surprising that something like that is hardcoded in to such a high profile client.

It strikes me as something that some well-meaning amateur would put in to their homegrown client without thinking though all the ramifications.
 
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wush said:
Unless this low-upload-cap-limits-download-speed is part of the Bit Torrent protocol, it's pretty bogus for uTorrent to enforce it.
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I think it is a pragmatic way of preventing your client from becoming a problem to the swarm. Admittedly its not an enormous help but it does prevent complete starvation.
 
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