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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when I say "current", it's because I've wasted way too much time the past chasing down leads which turned out to be out of date or which no longer were usable.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: 1) by Shijiyaku on Thursday July 10 2014, @04:04PM

    by Shijiyaku (1553) on Thursday July 10 2014, @04:04PM (#67131)

    For my XP and W7 boxes i use tixati - this was the only p2p software that worked fine on monster torrents >1TB

    and Deluge

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