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Leightweight Bittorrent client

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cblackburn

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Jul 5, 2005
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Hey all,

At the moment I use Azureus for all my torrenting needs but it absolutely hoses my computers resources until it crawls. Is there a nice leightweight (Obj-C)? bittorrent client out there that supports the following?

  • Using a SOCKS proxy for all communications
  • Limiting of Upload and download rates
  • Limiting of number of total connections

Thanks

Chris
 
cblackburn said:
Hey all,

At the moment I use Azureus for all my torrenting needs but it absolutely hoses my computers resources until it crawls. Is there a nice leightweight (Obj-C)? bittorrent client out there that supports the following?

  • Using a SOCKS proxy for all communications
  • Limiting of Upload and download rates
  • Limiting of number of total connections

Thanks

Chris
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I don't know about the above requests..but I finally just trashed Azureus the other day cuz it sucks IMO...other than being able to specify a particular file to download...it's annoying to me.

So,

Now I use Bits on Wheels..and I love it..

Transmission is also great, but can crash on you once in a while..

Check out Wheels, you'll never go back to Az.
 
From the maker of handbrake: Transmission. It's small and lightweight. I use Transmission and then I tried Azureus for about a minute, deleted it, and opened Transmission again. It's really nice, and fast and small. Also free, but what bittorrent client isn't?

Although I'm not sure about SOCKS and those other features... try Transmission anyways.
 
how about a client that allows selective downloads (choosing one of a batch)?? the only one i know about is azureus but i can't get that to work very well. any ideas?
 
Azureus has never given me any problems, resource-hogging or otherwise, and I have had it running for months solid, 24/7 at times. Nonetheless, I'm always open to new ideas, so perhaps I'll give one of these programs a try as well. Thanks for the recommendations. :) :cool:
 
hhhmmmm

~Shard~ said:
Azureus has never given me any problems, resource-hogging or otherwise, and I have had it running for months solid, 24/7 at times. Nonetheless, I'm always open to new ideas, so perhaps I'll give one of these programs a try as well. Thanks for the recommendations. :) :cool:
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Must admit, I've always heard of Azureus slowing down ppl's computers - can't say iv noticed it. I m running 2.5GB RAM though, so it could be that.

I think all new code should be multithreaded by default - to make use of multi core or multi processor machines. I'm sticking with Azureus - run great, and come to think of it, has not crashed in over 1.5years! :) literally 100's of GB's have gone through that code - i woud love to see a report from my ISP telling me how much BitTorrent data has gone through my connection!
 
I used to use transmission but it started crashing a lot lately so now I use the normal bittorent client 4.2, it is lightweight and hasnt crashed since I started using it(4 days).
 
FireArse said:
Must admit, I've always heard of Azureus slowing down ppl's computers - can't say iv noticed it. I m running 2.5GB RAM though, so it could be that.

I think all new code should be multithreaded by default - to make use of multi core or multi processor machines. I'm sticking with Azureus - run great, and come to think of it, has not crashed in over 1.5years! :) literally 100's of GB's have gone through that code - i woud love to see a report from my ISP telling me how much BitTorrent data has gone through my connection!
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat, and I only have 1 GB of RAM on my iMac - no heavy duty system, here, so I don't really know what some people are talking about. But hey, different things work for different people, that's cool.

I, too, would like to see my SP's stats on how much I've transferred - gotta be a few TBs by now... :eek: :cool:
 
I use the command-line version of the official bittorrent distribution. I don't think you can get anymore lightweight than that. It's basically a python script.
There are 2 variants: one that can run headless, another that uses ncurses for a more interactive look. If you're adventurous enough, do try it out.
 
superwoman said:
I use the command-line version of the official bittorrent distribution. I don't think you can get anymore lightweight than that. It's basically a python script.
There are 2 variants: one that can run headless, another that uses ncurses for a more interactive look. If you're adventurous enough, do try it out.
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Doesn't do SOCKS AFAIK.

Chris
 
I tried Transmission a version or so ago and while it took far fewer resources, it had problems resuming downloads that I paused, so I went back to Azureus.

I think I'll take a look at it again now that a new version's out.
 
howesey said:
Isn't SOCKS a Windows thing?
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You're thinking of WinSock which is the windows interface to TCP/IP sockets. SOCKS is a method of prosying communications via a 3rd party. It's much more efficient that HTTP proxying.

Chris
 
Man I hate bittorrent anything! It's so slow to download, taking days sometimes over a DSL connection. I've tried it a couple of times but never actually finish because it's so lousy.
 
Bern said:
Man I hate bittorrent anything! It's so slow to download, taking days sometimes over a DSL connection. I've tried it a couple of times but never actually finish because it's so lousy.
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Wow, you mus have bad luck or a crappy/uncooperative SP. I love using torrents, I've transferred TBs of data with torrents, always with great success and almost always with excellent transfer rates. :cool:
 
cblackburn said:
You're thinking of WinSock which is the windows interface to TCP/IP sockets. SOCKS is a method of prosying communications via a 3rd party. It's much more efficient that HTTP proxying.

Chris
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Thanx.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Transmission vs Azureus is like a Ferrari vs a Kia, I find no comparison.

Transmission is a great Bittorenter-er
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Azureus gets better gas mileage is is more fuel efficient? Okay, I can live with that. :p ;) :D
 
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