Hi. I'm interested in knowing which is the best BitTorrent client in terms of download speeds. I used Azereus for a while, but it slowed down my computer badly. I liked the features though. I now use BitComet. I suspect that the download speeds on this one are slower than Azareus. Please post your thoughts here so that I can make an informed decision. Thanks.

I use Azerius but never noticed a slowdown. What are you running for CPU and memory?

My usual BT machine is a 2.6 GHz P4 w/512 mB memory on a cable modem which maxes at ~5mb/sec down, 300 kb/s up. (recently upgraded to 600 kb/s up, but haven't done a lot of BT since then.

edit: oh, yeah, the speed. A really good download (dependant on the swarm) is a gigabyte in an hour.

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DonP, I hate you

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Azureus is the best. Because it's written in Java, it could be a bit sluggish on slower systems. Also 2.3.0.0 had some bugs that have been corrected in 2.3.0.2, so it should perform much better now.

I have tried several.
Azereus was OK.
I liked ABC better. Less busy, and a reputation of being more stable than Azereus.
Both got about the same speed with the same torrent.

Edit:

I have seem some posts saying that Azereus and ABC are most compatible with the torrent announce. Looks like some clients don't pick up all torrents properly.

I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ running on 512MB RAM. But the motherboard is a cheap one. However, most people seem to recommend either Azareus or ABC. Maybe I should switch to ABC then?

In my computer, Azureus was too sluggish. BitComet runs much better, and looks much simpler. I haven't tried ABC.

I use Azureus, with no problems.
But I don't use often BT, and I have P4 2800, 1 GB RAM in dual channel and an Asus MB.

After trying all of the above, I settled on Bitlord. I'm a little bit sceptical about the gui layout and the wasted screen space dedicated to a dodgy torrent search engine, where it would be better served to give this up for monitoring download progress.

All that to one side though, it gives unrivaled throughput on an ancient Duron 750 MHz with 256 Mb I have sitting in the corner. All the other clients mentioned above would eventually crap the PC out completely with multiple downloads, or at least slow it right down.

My pipe probably aint as big as DonP's, but on the above PC, I can still get 1 Mb/sec down and 256 Kb/sec up without dramas.

Azureus in particular has a swag of excellent features but could never achieve the same throughput, and would always bog the old PC down over time. Bitlord thankfully has many of the same features that I require, like partial downloads etc, but without the resource issues.

My 2 cents.

Dennis

I favour Azureus for its awesome feature set but it uses a lot of system resources and unfortunately it kept popping up from the tray since I had installed a personal firewall. :/

I tried BitComet but it had too few features (not enough local options for single torrents). ABC is rather fine though, with the exception that it sometimes does not exit properly and thus corrupts its torrent status file so you have to load some torrents again...

I have tried most of them (BitTornado, Azureus, Bits On Wheels, Tomato Torrent, ...).
But I always return to BitTorrent. Currently using version 4.1.1 beta!

It's Azureus! P.S. I also prefer it.

I'm using Tomato Torrent right now. What made you decide to switch back to the official client?

Here are my main reasons:
* I dont like how it use one window for each torrent (not tested latest version).
* Based on "old" code (BitTorrent 4.0.1 was out at least 1 month before Tomato Torrent left 3.4.2).
* No trackerless torrent support (like BitTorrent 4.1.x).
* No 'Single port' support.

Dont get me wrong. Tomato Torrent is a very good client, but for me it ranks #2.

I've tried several, and am currently using Azureus. It used to be slow, but recent versions have mostly eliminated that problem. Upgrading my Java helped a lot too.

Speedwise, I can usually max out my connection, which is 3 megabits per second, or about 1.2 gigabytes an hour.

BitTornado here, works great, but I'm not a regular torrnet user

BitComet, because of its UPnP support, excellent throughput (1210KB/sec download), and it does not consume much resource as Azureus.

thread from the dead.

has anyone ever used G3 Torrent?
I just discovered it and must say that I'm pretty impressed feature wise.
stuff like multiple downloads, quick information of how many seeds for a file there are while downloading, convenient file and folder management, many up- and download rules and modes, etc etc.
it seems to be based on BitTorrent 3.x though makes a real good impression to me...

bittornado for me... i don't need any of the fancy features of some of the others

BitComet runs best for me. Love it!

I personally use XBT. It's probably about as light as a BT client can get. It has most of the features I need (ie. File priority/exclusion). It's also got a web interface that lets me manage it from school. Now it's not pretty to look at, and it could definitely use some better ways to present data, but it works great for me.

Meanwhile, I've continued to use BitComet. I like it so far except that for some reason it almost stalls my computer once every five minutes or so. For example, if I am watching a DivX movie, the picture goes out of synch with audio and then suddenly, it's all okay again. This thing is quite annoying.

Otherwise, the throughput is good and it has all the common features. Thanks.