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What is a good, free torrent client (other than utorrent)
Edit: The problem is no more. I'm going to re-purpose this thread. I was curious to know what is a good, free torrent client, other than utorrent.
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2013-04-23, 14:40 | Link #2 | |
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Concerning about the torrents not showing up. Do u see the groups in top left corner? Maybe you have one selected that doesn't show any.
Magnet link (got it from a site) Quote:
If you re-add a torrent it will just see if there is new trackers to add to the one already open. No big deal.
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2013-04-23, 15:11 | Link #3 |
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D'oh! I found where they went. I clicked on one category in the filter frame and found a "hidden" category. They were there. I don't know why they went there.
Well, I'm going to re-purpose this thread. I was curious to know what is a good, free torrent client, other than utorrent.
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2013-04-25, 20:05 | Link #4 |
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I use qBittorrent. Open-source, no fuss, high compatibility. Just works.
There's the old favorite Vuze (formerly Azureus), Tixati for the configuration freaks -- albeit what the hell are you trying to configure so much about torrents anyway? -- and Transmission for non-Windows users. But I like things to just work, with minimal clutter, so qBittorrent for me. |
2013-04-26, 00:41 | Link #6 |
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Mm. Something about ads.
That and there were some software bloat for unnecessary functions and the like. uTorrent became super popular because it was a lightweight, Just Works client unlike how Azureus was, so as it "grew" people started asking questions. Many have experiences that uTorrent 2.x is faster than 3.x (I didn't really notice myself*). There is also the "sellout" aspect as the original Bittorent, Inc. bought uTorrent. *DO NOT, however, use anything older than 2.2.1. There are well known security exploits. |
2013-04-26, 17:26 | Link #7 |
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Since you didn't specify operating system, I'll throw in a recommendation for Transmission, a Mac and Linux client. I've been using it for the past few years and like it quite a bit.
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uTorrent builds older than 2.0.4 (stable) contained known security exploits. uTorrent builds newer than 2.0.4 (stable) but older than 2.2.1 (stable) contained known security exploits.
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2013-04-26, 21:32 | Link #9 | |
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2013-04-26, 23:41 | Link #10 | |
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I have Windows 7 64-bit.
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2013-04-29, 07:45 | Link #11 |
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The following are a list of BT clients:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...orrent_clients Since you're using Windows, there's Free Download Manager (no ads), which also acts as a BT client. Or there's Deluge.
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2013-04-29, 21:22 | Link #13 |
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So recommendations are qBittorrent, BitTorrent, Free Download Manager, and Tixati.
Now I'll have to find out which one to choose. Maybe there is an article on a site rating the top torrent clients of 2012. Thanks for the recommendations to those who gave one.
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2013-04-30, 01:21 | Link #15 |
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Laddies and gentlemen, I hope you haven't forgotten about our main focus - BitTorrent.
AnimeSuki as a site focuses mainly on those, so if a question is any Torrent besides uTorrent, you might want to be interested in BitTorrent. |
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BitTorrent, the official client, is being developed by the same company (Bittorrent, Inc.) that is developing uTorrent. I have no idea why people would choose the "official" client as a genuine alternative to uTorrent with the circumstances being so -- whether good or bad, one would expect them to be quite similar. Of course, I don't know myself how much code they actually share between them under the hood, given then they are both proprietary software. Quote:
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2013-04-30, 11:10 | Link #18 | |
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2013-05-04, 06:03 | Link #20 |
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uTorrent, once you turn off the ads (and it's really quite simple).
Preferences -> Advanced -> everything under "offers.*" set to false or blank. You may wish to set "gui.show_plus_sell" to false as well.
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