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same here, i just need it for limewire now

Looking for Limewire alternatives? Try either of these:

Frostwire - http://frostwire.com

Cabos - http://cabos.sourceforge.jp

Glad to see the dudes at uTorrent got the kinks out of Unicode. Blazingly fast progress on their part.

I honestly don't see any reason why any Windows user shouldn't be using utorrent for their torrent needs. Not one single client compares.

Seriously.

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Looking for Limewire alternatives? Try either of these:

Frostwire - http://frostwire.com

Cabos - http://cabos.sourceforge.jp

No i prefer limewire over both these,as these both use java also. What i'm after is a limewire clone which is lite and doesn't use java, and uses the gnutella network. Don't think one exists, maybe ?torrent should make this, ?download:shiftyninja:a:

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is it just me or does it seem like they are releaseing updates like crazy... (i remember it was only a few days ago(?) since the past update.. lol)

that's good thing right?

its only a 100kb download, opera finish downloading it by the time i locate the directory to download it to :p

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No i prefer limewire over both these,as these both use java also. What i'm after is a limewire clone which is lite and doesn't use java, and uses the gnutella network. Don't think one exists, maybe utorrent should make this, udownload :shiftyninja:

So I guess it's a Java-less Gnutella client with a Limewire-like interface you're after. Good luck. I'd recommend Gnucleus if you just want a lite Gnutella client. Just dump Limewire period, you're stuck with using old versions since the new versions filter out "illegal" content.

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not bad i guess. but im sticking with bitcomet

aye that's what i use at the moment too

im not sure if it's time to make the switch. last time i did, utorrent only get me around 40kB/sec and fluctuate too much. and no it's not firewall. bitcomet goes around 150kB/sec. so yea. can u ppl post how fast u can downloading using utorrent? and list some speed with other bt client for comparison. :)

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I honestly don't see any reason why any Windows user shouldn't be using utorrent for their torrent needs. Not one single client compares.

Exactly.

aye that's what i use at the moment too

im not sure if it's time to make the switch. last time i did, utorrent only get me around 40kB/sec and fluctuate too much. and no it's not firewall. bitcomet goes around 150kB/sec. so yea. can u ppl post how fast u can downloading using utorrent? and list some speed with other bt client for comparison. :)

It maxs my connection if there are good seeders, 250kb/sec.

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I top out at around 92 KB/s, the same speeds I got with BitComet. Honestly I don't see myself making another switch. I used Azureus up until a year ago when I switched to BitComet. Azureus was too much off a behemouth for my tastes. It's not like I'm running a relic, but if I can get comparable or superior performance with a smaller footprint I'm going for it. BitComet seemed like a good choice but I still saw it topping out at ~30 MB of memory usage. That became unacceptable to me when I saw uTorrent in October. I tried it, and slapped myself for not making the switch earlier.

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So all you guys are experiencing faster/same speeds as BitTornado, Azureus etc?

Utorrent is the same in speed. The only problem is that it takes a bit of time to climb up to faster speeds because it connects to peers slower than other clients, to reduce CPU usage.

In this version, I think they adjusted the peers connection so it should be the same as Azureus.

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