Azureus vs. µTorrent

[Roto13]

I've heard good things about both of these programs and I'd like to switch BitTorrent clients. Which of these two is better?

Subtopic: What BitTorrent client do you use? (Did I make a topic like that already?)

EDIT: "is be" the better one. I'm awesome.

[Jowy]

I use Azureus but it likes to suck up your memory.

[Iceglow]

Roto, I currently use U-torrent because I have to it's good it's not quite as gadget filled as Azureus but it also does not require a java applet to be present to run. I think Azureus is more detailed but U-torrent works great for me, just a little easier at times. Only hard part at first was the restrictions settings on my upload speeds and down speeds once I figured that out it was great.

I'd say to chose between the two as to which is better, personal taste and preference, U-torrent works just as well as Azureus but Azureus has a nice couple of options on it such as the swarm which allows you to see the packages being delivered in style...I used to watch that if bored for like 5 minutes and then go do something else.

Java applet is what makes azureus take up so much processing power...in relation to jowy's post.

[Dr Unne]

rtorrent: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/

[I Took the Red Pill]

I use Opera's built in Bittorrent Client, and haven't really tried anything else.

[XxSephirothxX]

uTorrent will get you faster speeds if you can get it to work optimally. I think it handles DHT better or something. I like both clients, personally, and used Azureus for a pretty long time until one of my friends nagged me into switching over.

Interestingly, on my dorm internet, where they have some sort of firewall or something set up to block a lot of P2P traffic, Azureus often worked better than uTorrent. But it also crashed my connection a lot more. If you are an open connection and will be able to connect normally, uTorrent should give you better speeds, and it's way less system-intensive.

[edczxcvbnm]

Azureus for me. Nice slick interface with loads of options and plug-ins. It might not run the fastest but that extra 3 or 4 KB per second isn't making the difference on a 200 meg file which is the average file size I download with a torrent.

I also have 1 gig of RAM so I never notice the memory hogging that it takes.

[Citizen Bleys]

BitComet. <3 Protocol Encryption, since my ISP throttles BT.

[stuffing]

I've never heard of any of those

but anything that starts with Az wins in my book

[DK]

BitComet is what I use mainly, too. On torrents that don't allow it, I use BitTornado.

[escobert]

µTorrent
Like Azzie my buddy nagged me to switch over.
Unlike edlkhflkjdhlihfksoifhislolz I still noticed Azureus hogging my :skull::skull::skull::skull: with 1 gig of ram (but I do have a evil pentium 4 that runs hotter then the deepest fires of hell)

[Moon Rabbits]

uTorrent.

[edczxcvbnm]

µTorrent
Like Azzie my buddy nagged me to switch over.
Unlike edlkhflkjdhlihfksoifhislolz I still noticed Azureus hogging my :skull::skull::skull::skull: with 1 gig of ram (but I do have a evil pentium 4 that runs hotter then the deepest fires of hell)

I have a P4 also...I guess I just rock? When I get home from work I will start up a bunch of :skull::skull::skull::skull: and let you know how awesome my computer is kickin'. I also run a :skull::skull::skull::skull: load of leaky firefox to top it all off XD

[Dreddz]

Azureus is only for people who like all the flashy extras which mean.......to be honest, nothing. I only use it because Blackcats usually have torrents only able to run with Azureus. Lame, but I have to deal with it. My prefered client is Bitlord, a very under-appreciated client.

[yanis]

Azureus user here!!!
I heard that it's better, that's why I'm using it!!!

[Baloki]

Torrenting is illegal, especially if your downloading Linux distros...

*closes*

[Roto13]

So far, uTorrent seems to appeal to me more. I've been toying with both of them for the past couple of days but it was too close to call. :P Azureus seems kind of confusing. I like the simplicity of uTorrent, and now that you mention it, it does seem to be incredibly light on system resources. I think I'll stick with uTorrent.

Thanks for your input.

[crono_logical]

I use both :D

Azureus on my linux machine that's got plenty of RAM which hardly gets used since linux is so much less bloaty than Windows :p Plus I use it in console mode :p

I use an old version of utorrent on Windows though (1.5) - anything later than 1.6 I won't trust now as since that release, it's joined forces with the official bittorrent company so who knows what spying features/"data copy restrictions"/bloat and other hindrances it'll ship with in newer versions :p

[McLovin']

I use...BitTorrent.

[edczxcvbnm]

Azureus is only for people who like all the flashy extras which mean.......to be honest, nothing. I only use it because Blackcats usually have torrents only able to run with Azureus. Lame, but I have to deal with it. My prefered client is Bitlord, a very under-appreciated client.

I like all the flashy extras ;_; I like to see the swarm, how much of each file is left, what parts of the file I am downloading and other useless information. So much information.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I have used both though I prefer Azureus. At one point Azureus kinda just not working for me; every time I started it it would go to "not responding" so I switched to mu-Torrent. I liked it but I am more used to Azureus than mu-Torrent.

I really do not have a problem with Azureus eating at my memory. The only time it is noticeble is when a torrent finishes downloading and it is in the process of checking it before it seeds it. Besides that, I do not even have 1GB of RAM and I barely notice anything. Also if I start having download rate of like 500kb/s then I will notice something too, but yeah, for the most part it does not slow me down much.

Azureus FTW!

[Yeargdribble]

I like all the flashy extras ;_; I like to see the swarm, how much of each file is left, what parts of the file I am downloading and other useless information. So much information.

I use µTorrent and I get all of those things.

[Dr Aum]

BitComet. <3 Protocol Encryption, since my ISP throttles BT.

[Magic Guy]

I use Azureus. I've never tried µTorrent; so I have no opinion as to wich one is better. I have no complaints with Azureus though.

[Roto13]

I used to use BitComet but I started having some pretty bad problems with it that I can't be assed to try to fix any more.

[Xaven]

I like uTorrent. Simple and very functional. I like my RAM, as scarce as it may be, too.

[krissy]

bittornado

[Walshy.indeed]

What is a bitorrent anyways?
What do they do?

Someone please explain.

[Roto13]

They're for pornography.

[Jowy]

And when you don't feel like going to Best Buy.

[LunarWeaver]

I am all about uTorrent. At first, just because it's kinda green, but later because it was also good.

[Tasura]

And when you don't feel like going to Best Buy.

Or Japan.

And uTorrent here, I've used a few different ones, but uTorrent is the only one that works well on my university connection, the otehrs worked, but at a max speed of 500b, not kb, b.

[Nominus Experse]

uTorrent is the one I use, mainly due to the fact that Azureus likes to randomly whore resources.

Azureus has a frog, but uTorrent has u-Tris!

EDIT: Damn... I voted for the wrong one...

[starseeker]

I use Azureus and it's decent. Better than the Bittorent one. I'm too lazy to change clients, despite Azureus being a system hog and odd-tempered.