Halite is a open-source BitTorrent client and is based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. What makes Halite stand out is its remote control interface allowing you to monitor and control the program from a mobile phone. Hailte is written in unicode so it will only run on Win2k or higher.

Features:

* Multiple downloads.
* Displays more detailed information for the selected torrent.
* Connection limits both global and per-torrent.
* Transfer rate limits again global and per-torrent.
* Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol).
* IP filtering with eMule ipfilter.dat import.
* Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary.
* Association with ".torrent" files.
* Option to limit the number of instances to one.
* Estimated time remaining indicator.
* Full Unicode support through UTF-8 and native Windows wide-char strings.
* Login support where tracker requires it.
* Ability to edit trackers specified in the torrent.
* Low in resource usage

Download: Halite BitTorrent Client 0.2.9 Revision 313
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
Link: Halite Home Page


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(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by JoeyRation on 09 Oct 2007 - 07:53
anyone tried it?
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Azmodan on 09 Oct 2007 - 12:44
Looks like it aims to be a uTorrent-like application. It's small, yes, but looks like it lacks some nice features.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by nonick on 09 Oct 2007 - 16:16
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Looks like it aims to be a uTorrent-like application. It's small, yes, but looks like it lacks some nice features.


Such as?!
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by Azmodan on 09 Oct 2007 - 19:29
Quote - (nonick said @ #1.2)
Such as?!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Homestarnnr on 09 Oct 2007 - 18:18
I have used this and the beta version that was released about 2 months ago. It is nice that it's open source and it has pretty much all the functionality of µTorrent. What is not so nice is that it connects to only a fraction of the peers and seeds as µTorrent. That is, whereas µTorrent would show me connected to 35(80) seeds [connected to 35 seeds and 80 seeds in the swarm], Halite would connect to maybe 3(7) seeds on the exact same tracker.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by Azmodan on 09 Oct 2007 - 19:48
Sincerelly, there's two clients I would recommend: uTorrent and Azureus. If you want a comparison, uTorrent might be a swiss knife, but Azureus is a space station. The problem with uTorrent is the claims of being used by BitTorrent Inc. as some sort of listening post. Hence why the current popular support of Halite (Also because it's OSS).

Maybe you have problems with Halite because there are restrictive trackers that allow only a set of clients, and Halite is pretty new.
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Halite is in an early stage of development supporting basic features


However, I'll keep on testing and reporting bugs.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by night_stalker_z on 09 Oct 2007 - 18:41
It does the job but the icons need ooltips to see what they mean.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by The Cub on 12 Oct 2007 - 19:49
Can't wait for this to mature.
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