Sirje31337
Limp Gawd
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In your opinion what is the best client for torrents?
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Rtstrider said:I use bittorrent...What are the downsides to that (sorry to threadcrap)
Please explain your logic behind this. As it has been stressed more then enough times that the protocol is the same between all clients.Decker87 said:In my experience, BitComet has always gotten me faster download rates than anything else.
DermicSavage said:Please explain your logic behind this. As it has been stressed more then enough times that the protocol is the same between all clients.
Because the matter of performance being looked at is not the implementation of the protocol, it is the means the protol uses to communicate. I want a specific explanation as to why his claim the BitComet downloads faster than other clients. It uses the same protol to communicate to all other clients, and to say that just because it is implemented differently, the other clients will treat that implementation with a higher priority lacks a lot of base.mikeblas said:Can't the protocol be the same while the implementation is different? Are all network cards that implement the same media equal in performance?
DermicSavage said:I want a specific explanation as to why his claim the BitComet downloads faster than other clients. It uses the same protol to communicate to all other clients, and to say that just because it is implemented differently, the other clients will treat that implementation with a higher priority lacks a lot of base.
Which is exactly my point. It is not the BT client used that determines the downloading speeds, it is almost entirely at the whim of the other seeds and peersmikeblas said:The other clients don't have to treat different implementations with more or less priority to notice a performance change. They simply block more for slower partners and block less for faster partners.
DermicSavage said:Which is exactly my point. It is not the BT client used that determines the downloading speeds, it is almost entirely at the whim of the other seeds and peers
no problems, and it is pretty fluff-freeFatal said:I've pretty biased towards Azureus as it is the only one I've used. Check it out. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
I was trying to infer through questioning(sorry I'm a philosophy major and have taken a liking to this method) that the protocol was reliant on the seeds/peers to send their data by their own selection and not the user's selection(of himself)mikeblas said:Your initial assertion was that all the programs implement the same protocol and therefore have the same performance. Different implementations of the same protocol can exhibit different performance characteristics.
I'd expect network throughput and latency to the other hosts to be the governing factor for download speeds in bittorrent. But it's not impossible for the implementation of the client to affect download speeds.
I'd certainly look beyond azureus if youre losing dataJeriko_Cherry said:Azureus corrupted my HDD, twice.... I then used ABC which worked well, but finally started using uTorrent and found it to be pretty good, smaller and less cpu intensive than ABC which makes it better for my HTPC system.
DermicSavage said:I'd certainly look beyond azureus if youre losing data
yea.Retardo said:am i the only one who uses bittornado?
I'm the best, but Azureus comes in a close 2nd. J/KXephian said:Azureus is the best.
djnes said:I had been using uTorrent for a while. It's true the app is tiny, but it would bog down any web-browsing whenever it was running and downloading something. I switched back to the generic BitTorrent app, and the problem is gone. It's a nice idea, but needed more testing.