Low resource torrent client?

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I have an old laptop with a Celly 2.6 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM. I'd like to be able to use it as a low power torrent box, allowing me to shut off my gaming PC when not needed, and in the end saving a lot on electricity.

I've tried Vuze on it. While I like its features and overall dependability (Its what I used on my desktop), I dont like the fact that it uses ~90% CPU usage downloading one torrent. Something tells me there are better options out there.

So that said, I am looking for a lightweight torrent client with RSS-downloading abilities as well as the ability to monitor a directory for torrent files and start their download automatically, so when I want to download a torrent and I'm on my desktop, I simply drop the torrent file in the monitored folder, and the client takes care of the rest.

Any ideas? I know uTorrent is popular.
 
+1 for uTorrent, it has a small footprint, though if you are downloading many torrents at once it will use a lot of ram. Very flexible and lots of useful features.
 
Just use Bittorrent/utorrent.

I think they have a webui too, so you can manage your torrents from your phone/tablet or another computer.
 
A lot of people bash uTorrent for being 'bloated' but I don't see that in the memory usage. It just has a lot going on, on screen.
 
definitely utorrent. I would recommend either that or vuze, but you've already mentioned you need something else.
 
Tixati

If you really want uTorrent stick with v1.6 which is the last version [strike=]to be open source[/s] before the sellout to Bittorrent http://www.oldversion.com/download-uTorrent-1.6.html
anything 1.7 or newer is [strike=]closed source and[/s] owned by Bittorrent.

IMHO Tixati > uTorrent (old or new doesn't matter)
Tixati is arguably the leanest client I've seen short of running the official Bittorrent client back in the day that was nothing more than a downloader. The official client today is based off uTorrent.
 
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zero2dash said:
Tixati

If you really want uTorrent stick with v1.6 which is the last version to be open source before the sellout to Bittorrent http://www.oldversion.com/download-uTorrent-1.6.html
anything 1.7 or newer is closed source and owned by Bittorrent.

IMHO Tixati > uTorrent (old or new doesn't matter)
Tixati is arguably the leanest client I've seen short of running the official Bittorrent client back in the day that was nothing more than a downloader. The official client today is based off uTorrent.
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Just one correction. uTorrent was never open source.
 
450 said:
whats wrong with the modern closed source utorrent?
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They've added unnecessary bloat and garbage; OP is looking for low resource. uT was fairly fast still (the last time I used it, but that was a few versions ago). I still don't really like all the added stuff. Toolbars, apps, media players etc. I don't need any of that.
I also don't particularly like the fact that uTorrent is now owned by BitTorrent who also has a paid version of uTorrent. I like to keep my freeware simple....no questions. Normally I'm not a conspiracy theorist but given the subject nature of the program in question.....I don't put too much faith in the uTorrent program anymore, especially since there are many alternatives out there. :)

Luda said:
Just one correction. uTorrent was never open source.
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I was under the impression that it was, however I cannot find any information confirming that; sorry for the confusion. :)
 
Does Transmission for Windows support RSS downloading (it doesn't look like it)?
 
Darakian said:
Transmission works on windows. It does not work well on my system. It's slow to boot, slow to import torrents and has crashed a few times. I love the linux/mac versions of transmission, but windows transmission is just not there.
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Interesting. I must not be a very heavy torrent user. I used to run a linux server and used Transmission.

I recently moved to a Windows 2008 R2 server and use the Windows build of Transmission and it seems to work the same from what I can tell. Since it's on a server I only ever use the WebUI or a .NET remote Windows UI.
 
Another vote for uTorrent.

I had the same problem as you -- wanting to torrent 24/7 but not have my i5 4.5Ghz machine on 24/7, along with a boat load of fans and 6 hard drives spinning.

The absolute best "no hassle" setup is to also setup Drop Box on your laptop as well. Have uTorrent auto load any torrents it sees in a special Drop Box folder. You can sit at your desk, drop a torrent in your desktop drop box and a few seconds later your laptop is working on it.

The remote management is great too -- setup a device name and password and you can access all the features you need via a web interface

Have uTorrent save everything to a folder that's shared on your network so you can go into the laptop remotely and move anything you need to your main rig.

With this setup - you can literally put the laptop off in a corner or something and just leave it running 24/7, unless the PC itself crashes then you never have to open it or mess with it.
 
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