BitTorrent sucks.

[wizwaz3]

Ok, now that I have your attention, what's wrong with BitTorrent? Every time I use it, it becomes slow or it stops completely. Lots of times it clogs up my WiFi reducing my Airport signal to 2 bars. The only fix I've found is to force quit and start it up again, but this only lasts a little while. Is there another Torrent downloader that doesn't have these problems?

Thanx for any help!

 

[lancestraz]

I use Transmission.

Ok, now that I have your attention

Oh, you're clever.

 

[squeeks]

i second that, transmission is the best torrent app ive found

 

[mahonmeister]

Not that it needed to be said again, but I also love transmission. It has all the features I need and is very light-weight. Use it. Love it.

 

[M@lew]

Do you even know how torrents work? You do know that the speeds you get attribute to how many people are seeding it right?

 

[Joshua8o8]

Whats the difference between limewire and torrents?

 

[thegrifman]

Whats the difference between limewire and torrents?

Limewire, if I recall correctly, lets you search for a file and it searches each nodes (user) shares for files with that name. Torrents contain a collection of data like entire albums and such instead of single songs although you can with most bittorrent clients (I believe transmission can do this) deselect items in the collection that you don't want. Torrents are in a central location and use a tracker to keep track of (imagine that) how many people have the entire torrent and how many only have parts of it. You also download pieces of the torrent from all the users that have it so it's much faster than Limewire which will only download from the peer you download the file from.

 

[Iamtherealwoody]

Like others have said, download transmission, make sure you have it set up properly for your connection, make sure your port is forwarded.

 

[aristobrat]

make sure your port is forwarded.

This is so important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't done this, then you're really crippling your potential speeds.

 

[tveric]

Azureus is also really great. Very easy to control how much bandwidth is used overall AND per torrent.

Even better, it's not partnering with major media companies (20th Centry Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., etc.) like Bittorent is.

 

[és:]

This is so important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't done this, then you're really crippling your potential speeds.

How do you do this?

 

[aristobrat]

How do you do this?

This page might help.

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

Pick your router and then pick your BitTorrent software and it should give you a step-by-step guide.

 

[Fevida]

I don't want to spam, but I just wrote a short review of 4 torrentclients on my website. Maby it's a help to you.

http://www.fevida.com/torrent-client-4-way-roundup/

 

[és:]

This page might help.

Pick your router and then pick your BitTorrent software and it should give you a step-by-step guide.

Thanks, but you forgot to put the link

 

[aristobrat]

Thanks, but you forgot to put the link

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

 

[wizwaz3]

Thanks everyone! I've downloaded Transmission and now I'm going to do the port forward.

And yes, I know how torrents work... That's why I was sure it was the software.

 

[AJ Muni]

I love torrents. I love Azureus, but then again thats more for the advanced user. I'm also kinda looking forward to uTorrent for the mac coming up..

 

[Compile 'em all]

Ok, now that I have your attention, what's wrong with BitTorrent? Every time I use it, it becomes slow or it stops completely. Lots of times it clogs up my WiFi reducing my Airport signal to 2 bars

How on earth can running bittorrent on your machine reduce the power transmission of the antenna of your router . Now, that out of the way , download transmission and forward your ports.

 

[None Such]

I'm a total newbie to torrents. How do you "forward you ports"?

 

[aristobrat]

I'm a total newbie to torrents. How do you "forward you ports"?

It's different for each router. The website below has instructions for quite a few of them.

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

 

[None Such]

It's different for each router. The website below has instructions for quite a few of them.

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

Thank you.

 

[Willie Sippel]

I don't want to spam, but I just wrote a short review of 4 torrentclients on my website. Maby it's a help to you.

http://www.fevida.com/torrent-client-4-way-roundup/

Nice article. You made a small mistake, though: Azureus is not the only multiplatform client in your roundup - Transmission is multiplatform, too. Available for OS X, Linux, *BSD and BeOS.

 

[ReanimationLP]

If your ports arent forward, downloading is gonna be slow and painful.

I use uTorrent personally, but atm thats only for Windows.

http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf (Be sure to have your sound on.)

 

[Joshua8o8]

im new to torrents, if you guys wouldnt mind helping me, I just downloaded transmissions. How do i use it?

 

[aristobrat]

It'd take a mini-novel to really explain it all in a post, so hopefully this helps a little:
http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/