Comments on: Lightweight BitTorrent Client

By: marc

marc — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:31:26 +0000

Oops. My bad. I was confusing BitTornado with BitComet. D’oh. Apologies to all.

One thing, though. Vuze has the option to use the classic Azureus interface, without all the razzle-dazzle. If you prefer some anonymity when file sharing it’s easy to configure with Tor.
The drawback to both Azureus and Vuze has always been memory usage, so unless you have lots of RAM to support it you may be better off with something else like (gulp) BitTornado or the always-popular uTorrent.

By: mateo

mateo — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:12:06 +0000

first of all, marc, the article is not telling people to use BitTornado, it’s telling them to try it out because it worked well for Jason and because Vuze has become too bulky for some people.
Anyway, I personally don’t use any trackers that banned BitTornado but what John and marc are trying to say is that a lot of trackers and even bittorrent clients “ban” other bittorrent clients because they feel like it’s a security risk or because one of the features floods their servers, or they just don’t want people to use it, well the reasons vary. So i guess both marc and john have come across many (most likely private) trackers that have blocked bittornado so if you can’t connect to a tracker, try a different client and if it works well you know why. this doesn’t mean bittornado doesn’t work as advertised.

i still recommend utorrent over any other one though (for now).

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:03:44 +0000

>>BitTornado is widely banned for bad behavior.

Please elaborate.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:00:47 +0000

BitTornado is widely banned for bad behavior.

Between David’s obnoxious sales pitches, pay-to-view stuff and recommendations like this, you guys keep losing credibility. Sheesh.

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:07:31 +0000

BitTornado is banned at alot of places.

I use utorrent, for me best client ever and for an even more resource friendly you can use transmission but it doesnt give you all of the same options as the others.

By: Obinna

Obinna — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:37:20 +0000

i use utorrent. this is the bit torrent client you should have mentioned. the installer just copies only one file accross to your system (utorrent.exe) and thats all. it’s very fast and (did i hear someone say) resource friendly.

By: Martyn

Martyn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:52:33 +0000

I used to use bitTornado in the ‘olden days’ but utorrent is the best ive found. Very user friendly, but had advanced options for those who need it. Uses minimal resources too. What more could you want

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:24:23 +0000

Very nice. From reading the details it looks really solid.
I remember now, I actually did look at this one when I was perusing for a BT client and thought the interface was too Azureus-like and, well, came to the conclusion (prematurely I see now) it was a “take over your system” type application so I moved on.

I’m going to stick with BitTornado for now, but will keep this on my bookmark list for the future.
Thanks for pointing it out.

By: Peter J

Peter J — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:06:42 +0000

Yes, I use UTorrent, it is as Drew says quite lightweight – a classic “do one thing well” product

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:33:22 +0000

Isn’t uTorrent even more resource friendly than BitTornado??