uTorrent remains top BitTorrent client

welp..utorrents the best and that settles it

please someone clarify for me what Exactly Is the Difference between Utorrent and Bittorrent.. i happen to find that they are essentially the same thing no?

ive used the top three torrent programs and i have to say yes utorrent and vuze are the best at what they do.
Although i use vuze and do not plan to go back to utorrent anytime soon but i am going to test the new utorrent update.

Yeah I used to use Azureus but then they came out with that Vuze content and then it became unappealing. It seemed as thought they tried to turn it into a youtube.

just turn that stuff off.. and please carry on using your macromedia owned torrent program.. wonder why people get caught?.. I don't.

closed source apps with suspect outgoing connections to a known copy protection software company.. hmmm.. something smells bad here. I ban all incoming and outgoing connections to macrovisiontorrent clients.. I won't have you connect to my nice secure open source program thanks.

Originally posted by ammad123:

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please someone clarify for me what Exactly Is the Difference between Utorrent and Bittorrent.. i happen to find that they are essentially the same thing no?

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Originally posted by ammad123:

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please someone clarify for me what Exactly Is the Difference between Utorrent and Bittorrent.. i happen to find that they are essentially the same thing no?

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Yeah, newest official bittorrent clients are based on uTorrent code. I haven't actually used the official so I don't know how much it looks like uTorrent.

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Originally posted by varnull:

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just turn that stuff off.. and please carry on using your macromedia owned torrent program.. wonder why people get caught?.. I don't.

closed source apps with suspect outgoing connections to a known copy protection software company.. hmmm.. something smells bad here. I ban all incoming and outgoing connections to macrovisiontorrent clients.. I won't have you connect to my nice secure open source program thanks.

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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And yet "the community" haz not found it to be spyware...yet...

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i think varnul was referring to vuse,which i have to agree i wouldn't trust with anything.

I was downloading the old 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' BBC TV series with Bitcomet & noticed that my Listening Port was blocked so only about 4 kbs !!! After hours of playing with my Router/Firewall i read a post saying simply use Utorrent coz it automatically configs everything so i got it & you know what ? same torrent 100 times faster ! That's right 100 ! 450kbs on average to be precise . So that is the difference mate - enjoy .

I still use tweaked uTorrent 1.61 tbh haha, maybe some paranoia there :P

I use 1.6.1 as well. That was the last build before they sold out to the original creator of bittorrent and got all closed about their source code and such.

ammad123, in a previous artical about the same thing they lumped the two together as essentially one. They are the same.

They appear to be the most resistant to 'spider bites'. Bitcommet was the most gullable. The frog was inbetween. I call the apps that tap into DHT and other nets to get IP addresses then try to get in to your computer and or create mischief, spiders. Their first trick was to fool the system into thinking something at 99% was done. BC went for the bait way too often a year or more back. Fortunatly, ut and bt could finish the job. That was enough for me.

I use BitComet because I can preview video downloads at 10 to 20% of the download. Can the top 3 do previews?

Originally posted by joepet200:

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I use BitComet because I can preview video downloads at 10 to 20% of the download. Can the top 3 do previews?

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I use BitComet because I can preview video downloads at 10 to 20% of the download. Can the top 3 do previews?

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yeah, we call it VLC.

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Originally posted by joepet200:

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I use BitComet because I can preview video downloads at 10 to 20% of the download. Can the top 3 do previews?

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yeah, we call it VLC.

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OK, good to know. I just tried viewing a download in progress (approx 50%) with VLC. It first notified me that the file was "broken" and offered to try fix it. Then played the file for a little while before jamming. BitComet uses MPC and you can preview directly from the app. It also tries to download the first 5% of the file in higher priority for you then offers the "preview" funtionality.
To each his own.

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uTorrrent is one of the best, I've been using it for years.

Azureus- tried it but it was a rescource hog - that may have changed.

BitComet - banned from most private trackers - I wonder why?

Bram Choen is the original developer of bit torrent and all his open source is used by every other client going.

Unless of course you know different.

Utorrent is the best

Just an interesting footnote to this...

A mate of mine has found that his ISP - Exetel in Australia - is choking his torrents. He has written to me just now that he is getting "some great speed" from switching over to Bitlord... perhaps it fits into that 'unknown' class on the table rather than 'other'.

Bitcommet does not relyably measure upload and down load info. None do but BC is by far the worst offender. It can be off by way more than 25%. I have seen it off several 100%. Nothing is happening but it says at the bottom you are doing double digit traffic. If you are interested in realistic ratios you can't use BC. Their falure to do things right when they had the reasorces has really hurt them. As persons reduce their use of public trackers to try to avoid all the attention, BC users will be forced to change.

Torrents is just too good a concept to last forever, so get it for free while you can.