Best Bittorrent Client available?

[SuperBeatBoy]

Just as the topic title says. i have been having some trouble with azureus lately, after about half an hour all my downloads will stop downloading, i have to restart it to get everything downloading again, but then after awhile same thing happens again. dont know what the heck it is.

[canuhavebabies]

thats weird!, azureus is working perfect for me, i've never had a problem with it in the years i've had it.

try reinstalling it.

[ExpertKing]

?Torrent for windows I guess and rtorrent for a really simple *nix client.

[Roddie]

Yeah I'd cast another vote for utorrent, never had any problems with it.

[SuperBeatBoy]

cheers, i totally forgot about utorrent. use to use it awhile back and stopped using it for some reason. thanks for the help guys, utorrent seems to be working a treat.

[anephric]

Azureus is a resource monster: uTorrent's okay but dl speeds seem to be a real problem for me with it.

[bootmonster]

make sure you have port forwading set up correctly, major speed boosts if you do.

[kernow]

i use transmission-gtk

[anephric]

Tried using uTorrent again (been a while) after finally getting sick of Azureus and its now-naff dl speeds - torrents that were lingering on 5-10kbps with 30+ seeds jumped right up tp 50kbps+ with uTorrent.

I'm sold.

[supersmithy]

I've never had problems with Azureus other than it hogging resources.

Utorrent, all the freakin way though

[anephric]

I've tried every tip, patch, port forward and update/plugin with Azureus. Unless I was downloading a torrent with like 80 seeds and 2 leechers, I get/got about 10kBps max on an 8meg ADSL Max line. And that was with me seeding loads (though not throttling my up bandwidth). It was a joke. Saying that, now that uTorrent's been going a while, it's dropped off to about sub-20kBps speeds. Maybe it's my crappy line attenuation or something. I get mega FTP speeds, though, so I don't know what's going on. I've patched my TCPIP.sys etc, all to no avail. And Azureus was fine for ages, it's just turned to crap recently.

[kernow]

you patched your tcpip.sys? hmm,

the next service pack or windows update will probably overwrite that

bittorrent is bittorrent, whatever I do I always find it fepping slow, I just live with it.

[anephric]

yeah, updates always overwrite the patched file, and then the patches get updated and you patch again...

[babs]

Sounds like your ISP may be doing some traffic throttling. Pipex are most notorious for it (I'm with them), and typically throttles to a 20K/s maximum. Fortunately you can beat it with utorrent (and azureus for that matter) with header encryption.

Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > Protocol Encryption = "Forced".

Also make sure you do throttle your upstream, and ideally limit the number of outbound connections. Too much upstream can have an adverse effect on your downstream (or at least this was the case the last time I checked).

[supersmithy]

Oh ****, I said exactly what babs said about upstream