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[VALIS]

I've been using uTorrent forever seemingly, but just this week there's a torrent that just doesn't want to write, I keep getting "can't find path" errors with uTorrent, probably because the torrent has a lot of non-standard characters in it and supposedly uTorrent chokes on those (though I've never noticed this before). So I decided to try it with a different BT client (Vuze) and wow! It looks like a supercomputer next to uTorrent, which looks like a calculator in comparison. So many options and... other shit. It's kind of overwhelming.

Is it better, though? I always hear people say uTorrent is the best, yet Vuze/Azureus certainly has a lot of fans. More options, better GUI... I'm intrigued. Opinions?

And I assume this is an okay topic since it isn't about piracy. There's nothing illegal about bit torrent clients.

 

[Ceres]

memory usage. Azureus uses a fuckton of it.

 

[evlcookie]

Have you tried the uTorrent 1.8xx beta versions?

And yea, utorrent is just alot smaller in everyway possible compared to azureus, love it.

 

[dasein]

ok yes um this thread is relevant to a question I had earlier today.

which is the most lightweight torrent app out there? I want something that is ultra light. would that be a firefox add-on or something? can anyone enlighten me here

 

[PataHikari]

Azureus has a billion functions you never use and drains more memory then anything. Never use it.

 

[kathode]

What's the best alternative to Azureus for Mac? One day I updated it and it turned into this Vuze thing, and now I feel like I am peeking through the hedges to find the actual torrent application in there among all the other BS and horrible independent media.

 

[Slavik81]

Azureus used to be good. ;_;

One day I updated it and it turned into this Vuze thing, and now I feel like I am peeking through the hedges to find the actual torrent application in there among all the other BS and horrible independent media.

Tools->Options->Start->UI Chooser->Classic Interface

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

What's the best alternative to Azureus for Mac? One day I updated it and it turned into this Vuze thing, and now I feel like I am peeking through the hedges to find the actual torrent application in there among all the other BS and horrible independent media.

I only use Transmission nowadays.

 

[elaments]

Vuze works great for me, I just start all my downloads before I go to bed and they are all done by the time I wake up or get off work.

 

[Slayven]

ok yes um this thread is relevant to a question I had earlier today.

which is the most lightweight torrent app out there? I want something that is ultra light. would that be a firefox add-on or something? can anyone enlighten me here

Utorrent, lightest one i ever seen. hell you don't even install it.

 

[RiskyChris]

The difference is all of your RAM.

 

[Zoramon089]

Fuck Vuze. Set Azureus to startup in the downloads window and skip the extraneous useless crap

 

[M3wThr33]

About 500MB of RAM.

uTorrent is 260kB.

That's it. Just as many features. A fucking FRACTION of cpu, hard disk and ram usage.

 

[thesoapster]

Vuze/Azureus uses more resources, but since uTorrent isn't on OS X...it's my choice.

 

[Hellsing321]

What's the best alternative to Azureus for Mac? One day I updated it and it turned into this Vuze thing, and now I feel like I am peeking through the hedges to find the actual torrent application in there among all the other BS and horrible independent media.

Like already said Transmission is great. It's small, simple, and gives you the option to ration off bandwidth for uploads and downloads.

 

[Ceres]

Azureus used to be good. ;_;

I was a major Azureus user for several years. Some of the features I used are not on utorrent. But my computer started getting old and Azureus started being more and more of a memory hog. Despite having it setup to automate everything, it was just not pleasant using my computer if Azureus was running.

 

[Dega]

I used to use BitTornado, simple, light, and fast. I tried Azureus a couple times but have never liked it.

uTorrent is light and fast too but with a couple extra features that come in handy.

 

[aznpxdd]

Azeureus for me since my fuckin' ISP throttles torrent files, I have to use it to encrypt my connection. It does take a shitload of ram, but its irrelevant to me since I've got 8gb of ram on Vista x64.

 

[aaaaa0]

uTorrent is written in C++ and is native to Windows (it doesn't use any cross-platform libraries, GUI frameworks, or standard C++ libraries like STL). It is thus fast, lightweight, and clean.

Vuze is written in Java. It is big, fat, and slow.

That is the difference.

 

[MIMIC]

I used Azureus for years but it really is a memory hog. uTorrent is the best alternative, IMO.