What torrent program should I use?


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Lately I have been using Azureus for my bit torrenting needs, but being a Java application it uses ridiculous amounts of memory. I was wondering what programs everyone here recommends. I need the basic functions such as blocking ip addresses and a scheduler. Any ideas?

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A quick search would have shown numberous threads like this already, but utorrent is by far the best. It's extremely lightweight in comparison with Azureus (which I used to use quite a few years back), and is very feature-rich :)

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+1 for Deluge

It could feel a little bloated compared to apps like Transmission or such, but then again it's a lot better than Azureus.

You could also try rTorrent (guide). Once you set it up properly, you'll have a lightweight app managing all your torrent files without a GUI (all you have to know are a couple of shortcuts, CTRL+S, CTRL+D, everything else would be set up in a config file, and torrents can be automatically loaded from a folder).

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I just use the Transmission client that comes with Ubuntu.

Prior to that I used Azureus for a while. And even the bittorrent CLI (no GUI) app.

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Bitcomet tends to be faster in download speed due to the fact that it manipulates the bittorrent protocol in a malicious way. It makes other clients think your computer is more capable of uploading than you actually are, and they reward you with faster downloads. So, if you have no dignity, like me, you should use BitComet, other than that uTorrent is very good as far as saving on RAM and cpu. You don't even need to install it...

And Azureus uses Java I think, so of course it's going to be slow :p

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rtorrent is nice, if you run it in a screen session you can just run it on a remote box, or run it then detach it and never have to look at it again.

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I really wanted to use Deluge, seems where i get my torrents from its a banned client. So I guess I'll just stick with Azureus for the time being.

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+1 for rTorrent. You need to spend sometime to memorize the keys (such as a, s, d, z, x, c, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+D...etc, you need them frequently), after you have learnt them, rTorrent is very efficient.

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