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what is the best torrent client?
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9. November 2006 @ 20:34 |
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can anyone give me an advice. i just wanna know whats the best of the best "Torrent Client" plsssssss help me on this.. i tried bitcomet but i'm not saitisfied about its perpormance... plss could anyone help me..?
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9. November 2006 @ 22:43 |
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Jagua
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10. November 2006 @ 07:09 |
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The_Fiend
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10. November 2006 @ 09:37 |
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It's amazing to see there's still people claiming that their *fill in the blank* is "best".
In the end, whatever client works best for you is what would be best.
That could be Utorrent, Azureus, ABC, BitTornado, or the original BitTorrent client.
Just try out a few clients, see what works best on your system.
irc://arcor.de.eu.dal.net/wasted_hate
Wanna tell me off, go ahead.
I dare ya !
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10. November 2006 @ 19:28 |
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What he said.
I personally prefer Azureus, but it's not the best choice for ubernoobs, that title probably belongs to Bram's original client.
I provide all kinds of support for Azureus, but not for uT, however lots of people provide support for uTorrent. (uT=uTorrent in my posts.)
But yea, do what fiend said. Try out a couple, stick w/ what fits. If you get lost, I'd point you to the links in my sig or the sticky posts in this forum.
~Melee
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13. November 2006 @ 00:59 |
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i'd tried downloading and using Azureus. its seems to be that Azureus is powered by java application and utorrent is a c++ compilation, thus this affect the speed of each client, I know that these are different, Is this two have the same speed or could be faster...?
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13. November 2006 @ 10:15 |
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Originally posted by mangpepe:
i'd tried downloading and using Azureus. its seems to be that Azureus is powered by java application and utorrent is a c++ compilation, thus this affect the speed of each client, I know that these are different, Is this two have the same speed or could be faster...?
Speed doesn't vary by client choice, its more about your connection & the torrent.
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13. November 2006 @ 23:07 |
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@rav009
can i ask you a question, if i have a high-speed internet connection with about a speed of 768kbps how much time that it takes to download a 2GB file?..
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14. November 2006 @ 06:19 |
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We need more info, how many seeds & peers are there on the torrent?
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14. November 2006 @ 12:01 |
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yeah, the client all depends, i use "BitComet" but then again i heard Azereus was very good too.
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14. November 2006 @ 15:28 |
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I prefer utorrent... its very light.. customizable and all that jazz... very "newbie" friendly too..
To reiterate there are soo many factors that contribute to speed...
-uploaders speed
-number of peers
-your connection
-tweaks that you have done
and a few others.
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14. November 2006 @ 20:09 |
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Dun-dun-dun, math time!
768kbps is what you say you have. Now...is that KBps or Kbps?
768KBps is slightly over 6Megabits, but I'm assuming you have 769kbps, which is 8x slower, coming in at just over half a megabit.
bit = b, lower case
Byte = B, upper case
8 bit = 1 Byte
1024 bits = 1 Kilobit
1024 Bytes= 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobits = 1 Megabit
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabits = 1 Gigabit
1024 Megabbytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabits = 1 Terabit
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabits = 1 Petabit
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
So, assuming that a 2 GB file is 2048 Megabytes, time for math.
768Kb, is only 98KB, abbreviated as 98K, in computer terms, 98K/s.
So how long will it take to get 1 Megabyte with that much throughput?
1024/98=10.45 seconds to get 1 megabyte. So let's figure 1024 Megabytes= 10.45 x 1000 (for a Gigabyte), or 10450.0 seconds, or 174.17 minutes. We need 2 of those, so 174.17 x 2 = 348.3r minutes.
348.33/60 for hours = 5.81 hours, assuming max througput at every second of the transfer. However, you'll really be lucky to get a sustained transfer of 80% of max, so / by .8, and you get 7.26 hours, or so, to transfer that file, assuming no other variables.
And that's todays lesson on making crap way to complicated.
~Melee
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14. November 2006 @ 23:01 |
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@TomMelee
Tnx so much for estimating it, so very helpful of you. by the way what client are you using? or what do you suggest to use best for speed & performance?.. tnx again
"mangpepe"
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15. November 2006 @ 12:32 |
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I break it down like this.
Rule 1, nothing is de-facto "faster" than anything else assuming it is configured correctly.
Rule 2, I like to tweak, so I like Azureus.
Rule 3, I only know enough to know that I know very little.
So, for n00bs, I recommend clients in this order:
1. Bram's original BT client
2. BitTornado
3. uTorrent
//Puts on flame proof jacket//
Then when you're ready to be one of the big boys on the playground, you switch to Azureus. :)
So...I use Azureus, but I don't recommend it if you don't want to take the time to LEARN how BT works and how to tweak it for optimal performance.
~Melee
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15. November 2006 @ 15:53 |
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@TomMelee
I like to know alot about bittorrents and ports, so where can i learn this two could you provide a link. And also Azureus is best when i know about what to learn and tweaking its performance is this what you're saying?..
i have a little bit of a problem about the health smiley in Azureus my health always stay in yellow condition. it doesn't turn into the green state or should i say "everything is ok". plss help me?. tnx
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15. November 2006 @ 16:32 |
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if the NAT smiley stays yellow, then your ports aren't configured correctly, or some other aspect of your setup is borked.
There are lots of guides in this forum that are stickied towards the top, I suggest you read those.
Also, I have my own site, it's in my signature. You can grab the BT Bible, it illustrates everything pretty well, even though it is getting a little bit dated.
There are several other tutorials there too, including a video tutorial about configuring Azureus.
~Melee
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15. November 2006 @ 16:57 |
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I'll check it out now. :)
Tnx for the help of Dragonz17 for my sig.This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 15. November 2006 @ 17:34
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15. November 2006 @ 18:04 |
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nice tutorial you have on the link so very helpful. have more information about configuring torrents. can't believe you own that site.. :) just kidding. by the way thus utorrent can be configurable too.??
Tnx for the help of Dragonz17 for my sig.
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16. November 2006 @ 14:52 |
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uT is pretty configurable too, but honestly, I haven't used it in about 4 versions, so I don't know the interface. The uTorrent site has a pretty good wiki/help though, I've pointed people there several times.
~Melee
edit: BTW, thanks for the kudos. Send all your friends there and link everyone to it. HEHE, now I'm gonna get modded.
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21. November 2006 @ 23:09 |
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tnx i had my choice, i will then use both utorrent and Azureus. hope there will be a best bittorrent client ever created that can beat this two. :) lol tnx man..
Tnx for the help of Dragonz17 for my sig.
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22. November 2006 @ 05:08 |
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it depends if you are a beginner or a advanced person with torrents. Azureus give you the choice to be either a beginner, intermediate or advaced when running it
so I recimend it ;)
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22. November 2006 @ 22:04 |
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23. November 2006 @ 23:29 |
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@wingfoot
somebody said to me that bitcomet sucks and "Dont even try using it"
i don't know whats his problem about bitcomet, but even though he said it, i tried it but i'm not satisfied either, so i heard about Azureus & utorrent they're kinda great so i started using it.
Tnx for the help of Dragonz17 for my sig.
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24. November 2006 @ 05:42 |
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BitComet is a leecher client. I won't go too far into details, but basically it allows you to get more than you should.
Dunno what this "BT Engine" is, but I suspect it's not all that great. It probably opens up half open ports and changes some read/write timings in the registry.
The only engine that I've ever actually seen make anything faster is CfosSpeed, which is a fairly badass program, but it can be a pain to get rid of.
~Melee
oh, edit: BitComet will get you banned on LOTS of private trackers. (most, anyway)
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24. November 2006 @ 18:20 |
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BitComet will get you banned on LOTS of private trackers. (most, anyway
so thats why some other people dont use it.
@wingfoot
why are u using bitcomet? it is not that great and it can banned u
forever. you should switch to some other client like Azureus or utorrent,. they are the most popular clients ever. and also check out TomMelee's website. kinda help me for my problems in bittorrent.. :)
Tnx for the help of Dragonz17 for my sig.
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