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Torrent software

GrundlestiltskinGrundlestiltskin Behind you!Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Does anyone have a good recommendation for software to download torrents with? I've been using BitComet, but ever since I started using it I've started getting blue screen crashes (some IRQ problem), without fail, every few hours. It may or may not be related, but...

just to be on the safe side, what else is out there that's comparable to BitComet in quality and functionality?

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You didn't mention your platform.

    Transmission is best (if you can use it).

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  • GrundlestiltskinGrundlestiltskin Behind you!Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Lewisham wrote: »
    You didn't mention your platform.

    Transmission is best (if you can use it).

    Ah, sorry. Windows XP SP2.

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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I really like uTorrent. It's easy, and it works great. I used to use Azureus, but uTorrent seems better in pretty much every way.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    For Windows µTorrent is probably the best. (It's my favorite, anyway)

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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yeah, that one.

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  • ihmmyihmmy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    also utorrent for me

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    uTorrent for its simplicity and the WebUI. If you can manage to get that set up, it's indispensable.

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  • GrundlestiltskinGrundlestiltskin Behind you!Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sounds pretty unanimous :) I'll check it out after work. Thanks all.

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Another vote for uTorrent!
    I love the program, and have tried many.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I use uTorrent myself, it really is the best for windows.

    (Also, I've used Transmission before, it wasn't nearly as featured as uTorrent, or even things like Azereus. I'm not entirely sure how that makes it "the best")

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I just started using Bitlord and I really like that. I used to use Azureus, but it's gotten so crappy and filled with junk that I quit using it.

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Silvoculous wrote: »
    uTorrent for its simplicity and the WebUI. If you can manage to get that set up, it's indispensable.
    Yeah, I used to use Azureus with a web UI plugin, but it had stability issues out the proverbial ying-yang. It would intermittently crash with a particular error, and when I looked up that error on Azureus' support site, their response was essentially "oh that's a bug in Java, go complain to Sun". Right, because Sun is going to drop everything to get this fixed so I can torrent stuff... After continually encountering the problem through multiple releases of Azureus and Java, I gave up on it. I've since switched to uTorrent, it's way more stable, has a much smaller memory footprint, and the web UI works really well for my purposes. It'd be nice if uTorrent was open source, but I can live without that. You couldn't pay me to go back to Azureus now.

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  • HlubockyHlubocky Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well, after all the bashing up Azureus, I'm going to throw my hat in and say I use it all the time and love it. I haven't tried uTorrent though...

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I, too, recommend uTorrent. Even on Linux (through Wine). I deeply appreciate the Boss Key.

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  • Cynic JesterCynic Jester Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    uTorrent. All the way. Easy to use, low memory footprint, awesome web UI and last, but not least, it looks good in my taskbar.

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  • NostregarNostregar Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Somewhat unrelated, but by Windows XP SP2 do you mean you haven't installed SP3? Because you really should...

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  • GrundlestiltskinGrundlestiltskin Behind you!Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Nostregar wrote: »
    Somewhat unrelated, but by Windows XP SP2 do you mean you haven't installed SP3? Because you really should...

    Um...is this something it would have done automatically? >.>

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Nostregar wrote: »
    Somewhat unrelated, but by Windows XP SP2 do you mean you haven't installed SP3? Because you really should...
    That is not what I have heard.

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  • .kbf?.kbf? Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Nostregar wrote: »
    Somewhat unrelated, but by Windows XP SP2 do you mean you haven't installed SP3? Because you really should...
    That is not what I have heard.

    For instance the installation of SP3 on my machine caused any and every source based game to crash on load.

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