Best torrent to use?

[Unwell Cat]

I confused so many different torrent clients to choose from. Which do you guys recommend? It's got to be farily easier to use.

[Anpanman]

Utorrent for me.

Faster than Bittorrent in my experience and 'U' is just a small exe file, don't need an install to get it running.

[paul]

I'd also recommend Utorrent.

[sj33]

utorrent has long been regarded as the best, and least resource intensive. It's now been purchased by Bittorrent and has now become the official client, though I still prefer to use the utorrent version.

[eastyy]

again u torrent for me as well
also has encryption which is handy if your isp places blocks on downloading torrents

[Unwell Cat]

Ok, thanks. I've just downloaded it so I'll give it a try.

[k0pp0]

Another vote for Utorrent. Although I still think it has problems managing connections..

[Cornflakes]

How is about deluge? I've heard that some people are having trouble with it, but if it work it is apparently pretty good. Good thing about it, is that it is available on most OS and opensource.

[pacrifice]

if ur gonna get utorrent, make sure it's version 1.6.1. anything after that, apparently the RIAA have it monitored or somethin. jus make sure u get 1.6.1

[sj33]

^Got a source for that? Not being an ass or anything, it really is the first time I've heard such a thing tbh.

You should do the following things though (these tips don't aid piracy as such, just stop your ISP unfairly throttling bittorrent traffic):

1) Make sure your utorrent port is not the default. Anything between 50000 and 60000 is recommended, and make sure that port is forwarded on your router.
2) Disable DHT Network, DHT for new torrents and Peer Exchange. These help find other users when the tracker is messing up, but also messes up your recorded share ratio on the tracker, which means you could be uploading and not get credited for it. DHT is even a bannable offence on some trackers.
3) Set Protocol Encryption to Enabled (not Forced) and tick 'Allow incoming legacy connections'. This will enable you to connect to users using encrypted connections (some users need to, to bypass ISP limiting).
Forced will only allow you to connect to Encrypted peers, which 99% of cases you will not use, but some particularly annoying ISP's may need it.
See this page http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs

[anephric]

If uTorrent was that dodgy now, all of the major trackers would have banned it, since they know where their traffic is going to, and they haven't in any revision, afaik.

I haven't seen any evidence that uTorrent reports anything to anywhere, and on the Bittorrent site it states, in black and legally culpable white, that there is no monitoring contained in the software.

There was a lot of talk about 6 months ago about this, and no-one provided any evidence to back it up, beyond paranoia and Peer Guardian blocking some ports uTorrent wanted to use. If you put any faith in Peer Guardian, then you're on to a loser.

[pacrifice]

^Got a source for that? Not being an ass or anything, it really is the first time I've heard such a thing tbh.

You should do the following things though (these tips don't aid piracy as such, just stop your ISP unfairly throttling bittorrent traffic):

1) Make sure your utorrent port is not the default. Anything between 50000 and 60000 is recommended, and make sure that port is forwarded on your router.
2) Disable DHT Network, DHT for new torrents and Peer Exchange. These help find other users when the tracker is messing up, but also messes up your recorded share ratio on the tracker, which means you could be uploading and not get credited for it. DHT is even a bannable offence on some trackers.
3) Set Protocol Encryption to Enabled (not Forced) and tick 'Allow incoming legacy connections'. This will enable you to connect to users using encrypted connections (some users need to, to bypass ISP limiting).
Forced will only allow you to connect to Encrypted peers, which 99% of cases you will not use, but some particularly annoying ISP's may need it.
See this page http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs

I read it on the torrentspy.com website. i can't find the link to the actual page that states it but if you're certain that it's safe then it's good enough for me. I've been sticking to 1.6.1 all this time for fear lol

And thanx for the info.

[shanaleonhart]

Personally I use Azureus 2.5. Never had any problems with it.

[SteJay]

I was a happy Azureus user for a few years but decided to give uTorrent a try a couple of months back and haven't looked back. I seem to be getting much faster downloads with it.

[SubparMario]

You probably don't want to disable DHT unless you know you'll be using private trackers where you really care about your ratio