Tuesday, May 12, 2009

torrent clients

Torrent clients

There is a large amount of free applications, that are able to download with torrents. You can choose here from the most commonly used (and also the best, they're most used for a reason).

Setting a torrent client

If there are no other complications, usually the only thing you need to set is your upload speed (your internet connection speed in the direction out from you). If you don't know it, you can easily find it out on speedtest.net (remember, 8kbps equals 1 KBps, so if you need your speed in kilobytes, divide the kbps by 8).

Download the clients


The most commonly used torrent client. It is very popular for its simplicity, reliability and also its size - only around 200KB. It has a very nice web site, including extensive forums - if you have any problems. The clear choice for newbies! The "u" at the beginning of the name means micro, they rather use "u" because it's easier to write and there are no problems with encoding.

utorrent.com (official website)
download (version 1.7.7,
Azureus

Another very favourite client, written in Java (You need to have JREinstalled, but that is very common). It is highly customizable, whilst it has no complicated controls. This application is open-source. The program's logo is the Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus). The Azureus name was given to the project by co-creator Tyler Pitchford, who uses the Latin names of poison dart frogs as codenames for his development projects.

azureus.sourceforge.net (official website)
download (version 3.0.5.0, 7,5MB)
BitSpirit

A client famous for its possibility to download from private trackers without registration. Most commonly used to download from TorrentLeech.org, because this tracker usually provides downloads at amazing speeds. Can often fill all of your connection speed.



167bt.com (official website)
download (version 3.3.2.100, 2,6MB)

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