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What's the Best Current Bittorrent Client?

posted by Woods on Thursday July 10 2014, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
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Appalbarry writes:

I'm running a fresh install of Mint 17 Cinnamon, and have been using Transmission for torrent downloads. I suspect that my ISP is throttling Bittorrent traffic, as things seem rather slow. Right now I'm downloading a file with dozens of seeds, and hundreds of peers, and it's topping out at 300k DL, and is usually struggling to stay above 100k.

I've been Googling this, but most advice seems to be at least two or three years old an eternity on the Internet, so I'm looking for current advice.

1) What are the recommended Bittorrent clients these days? And why is your choice better?

2) Can anyone point me to current specific advice on how to handle downloads without my ISP slowing everything to a halt?

Please note, when I say "current", it's because I've wasted way too much time the past chasing down leads which turned out to be out of date or which no longer were usable. And FWIW, almost everything that I download is actually legal Linux ISOs etc.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 10 2014, @04:04PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 10 2014, @04:04PM (#67130) Homepage Journal

    I'll second qBittorrent. I'll also add that qBittorrent is very much like uTorrent, as regards features and performance.

    http://www.qbittorrent.org/ [qbittorrent.org]
    qBittorrent Features

            Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
            Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
                    Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
                    Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
            All Bittorrent extensions
                    DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, ...
            Remote control through a Web user interface
                    Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
            Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
                    Torrents queueing and prioritizing
                    Torrent content selection and prioritizing
            UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
            Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
            Torrent creation tool
            Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
            Bandwidth scheduler
            IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
            IPv6 compliant
            Sequential downloading (aka "Download in order")
            Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD

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