What is your favorite Torrent Downloader/Client/Manager?

uTorrent has one of the lowest memory footprints. I would give it another shot. When it’s configured properly, it is my favorite Windows cilent. Transmission is my favorite Mac client.

I didn’t give uTorrent to much of a test drive, actually. I used it for about a day and I found that it seemed to download slower than my torrents on Vuze did, so I just switched back. I’ll give it another try eventually, I also want to try other ones like BitComet.

Vuze is too bloated for my little mac to handle. I really love Transmission. I found that xtorrent downloads more quickly, but unfortunately, it’s shareware, with horrible nag warnings, and a download cap after an hour.

MrMont, you should look up and understand all of the settings involved for any torrent client. Once you can set the connections manually, every torrent client is going to give you about the same speed (with the same settings).

I mostly use rtorrent now but not everyone has a dedicated Ubuntu box for torrents.

@bodyhead I’ve been looking up these things and trying to understand more about torrents and I understand most of it, just sometimes a bit fuzzy on some parts. :P

Hollar if you have any questions. I typically set my connections (per torrent) at max/min at about 30/50.

Azureus was great, Vuze is crap. uTorrent is great if you don’t have a lot of RAM, but I’ve yet to find a torrent client as fast as BitLord. I usually get 500kb/s with BitLord, while the max I ever hit with uTorrent was 200kb/s.

I have a mac now, so I’m using transmission and it’s really slick. when I had a PC it was uTorrent hands down. To answer your question, I have used the built in option that Opera has, and frankly I’m underwhelmed.

transmition ftw

I used to actually use quite a bit of those Azureus/Vuze plugins. Emailing torrent completion, the first client to do UPnP firewall configuration, IM notification, DHT, built in support for RSS, and more than a handful of remote access options. I found the memory argument against using it aren’t quite the case anymore, but it’s still a little nutty.

Transmission is great, and the web/rpc interface is really slick. It’s a bit more spartan than Az/Vuze, and sometimes I miss some of the extra info you could get on what’s going on on the network, if only to satisfy my curiosity.

I only have one gripe being a mac person, and that Azureus/Vuze nor Transmission handles files in a Mac like way. I’m used to being able to move files around at any time, but if you move a torrent file while it’s downloading, the whole thing poops. I’ve yet to try Tomato Torrent or Bits on Wheels, so I can’t speak to how they work.

I enjoy my uTorrent.