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Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks

lifehacker.com — BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for making the most of it. Some are must-haves, while others are a waste of time. Climb aboard for a look at 10 of the best BitTorrent utilities, tools, and resources for finding and managing your downloads

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  • wiserwii, on 01/30/2008, -3/+10http://torrentem.com is a cool tool too. .... they should put it on the list....
    The same with www.bitlet.org and some gresemonkey scripts
    • BMNB1tches, on 01/31/2008, -14/+4This two should be on the list

      BY BSWILSON AT 10:25 AM
      No love for deluge (Linux)?
      BY COMING INTO THE GAME ♪♪ ♪♪♪ #ROC23 -- THE SUPERSTAR RECEIVER, OFYOURUPPERDECK TORONTOOOOOBJSSS AT 11:51 AM
      Also, my very helpful and productive uTorrent tip for getting things done?
      In uTorrent, Punching "T" on the keyboard when viewing the "About uTorrent..." in the Help menu will start a game of Tetris.
    • digitalarcanum, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7I think peer guardian should've came in first place instead of being an honorable mention. What with traffic shaping isps and the MAFIAA on the wild interwebs, you can never be too careful.
    • allenobendorf, on 01/31/2008, -10/+2How can i download torrents from my schools network? It doesn't let me.
      • Dantetheinferno, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4You probably shouldn't be downloading from your schools network anyway.
    • msevely, on 01/31/2008, -3/+0forgot to tell about torrentharvester http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Torrent-Harv ...
  • victorycig, on 01/30/2008, -5/+18I switched to Mac a couple years ago, took Azureus with me, and have never tried Transmission. Is Transmission really that much better than the OS X build of Azureus?
    • MondoMan, on 01/30/2008, -1/+39I use Transmission mostly because of it's amazingly simple interface. Azureus is more of a power app to me, I wanted the bare essentials so Transmission was a great choice.
      • DiFosfor, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3I liked Transmission's simple interface as well, but unfortunately it's connection behavior (it's apparently rather spammy) lead to me getting kicked by some of my favorite trackers, so I switched back to Azureus.
      • zaqarov, on 01/31/2008, -3/+8Azureus is Java, which is supposed to be slower. (because it's cross-platform it uses more memory and stuff, not connection-wise).
        Transmission is really lightweight but I also get the feeling some trackers don't like Transmission. I still prefer it over Azureus though.
        My ubuntu box (home+download server) has deluge on it, an excellent client, so if you're on a linux, you should try that one.
        • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Azureus is a bit of a slug sometimes, but it's so versatile... I would rather use it then all the other crap I see pop up.
        • chousho, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Add me to the Deluge supporters. Azureus is a quality app, however I've found Deluge to be an awesome replacement on my lower spec'ed laptop. The plugins are especially good, including the Scheduler and Web User Interface.
          For anybody using Deluge wanting to import the PeerGuardian list:
          Plugins -> Blocklist Importer -> select "SafePeer Text (Zipped)" and set the URL to "http://www.btack.info/splist.zip" (without the quotes).

          Have fun :D
    • scrappyvintage, on 01/30/2008, -57/+10Too bad you didn't get a PC. The best freeware programmes available are made for a REAL computer, not a shiney toy.
      • vibrokatana, on 01/30/2008, -14/+47The best viruses are made for the crappiest OS
        • Authustian, on 01/30/2008, -1/+20True, but he didn't say windows either, he said REAL computer. *nix me up :)
          • capiCrimm, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4linux doesn't get crippled freeware with pop-up activations. We have to suffer with FOSS programs. :'( I wish I had a PC
        • digitalarcanum, on 01/31/2008, -14/+2the most expensive shiny white cases for the ***** laptops: apple in a nutshell.
          • iruel, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1i'm really not sure how you can call apple's laptops the *****. i mean even hypothetically if they did suck, there is something else out there that is *****. the only major criticism i can think of for them is that they are a bit more expensive than an equivalent machine. you are just being an ass.
        • scrappyvintage, on 01/31/2008, -4/+2If you don't know how to safeguard against a virus, you deserve to get one. Buying a computer to protect from a virus (APPLE), is THEE SINGLE MOST RETARDED thing you can do, worse than Grandma and Grandpa paying for Norton Anti-Virus.
          If you bought your junk apple computer for the OS, you are retarded. And I believe you did.
          • Yodacola, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3Norton Antivirus for Mac is meant to prevent PC viruses, worms, trojans,etc. from propagating via email or storage device to another PC. A vulnerable' Mac is really a misconfigured one, which is actually quite common if you use many third-party apps.
        • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2I think apple makes pretty damn good laptops... That being said, they've never convinced me to buy one of their products since the Mac IIfx was out with a 486 emulator card.

          I might buy one of their systems in the future, but it's really up in the air. I thought about buying a clones when they were out, but apple killed that pretty fast.

          Anyhow, hopefully FOSS will make buying a apple a mute point soon enough.
      • scrappyvintage, on 01/31/2008, -21/+4HARDWARE. . .NOT SOFTWARE you Mac retards! YOU ALWAYS GO BACK TO THE OS (like some ***** up episode of "children of the corn)!!! If I wanted to deal with "Leaper", I'd hack it and put it on my PC. If you are scared of getting a virus, listen. . .IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING A VIRUS, and buying your overpriced shiny piece of garbage is the only justification you can come up with, YOU DON'T BELONG ON THE INTERNET. It's that simple, if you want steve jobs to put everything together for you because you're too dumb to build your own kickass (or half decent) PC, YOU DON'T BELONG ON THE INTERNET.
        Download uTorrent on your Mac. . .YOU CAN'T. Get the LATEST BETA RELEASES of virtually ANY decent open source application. . .YOU CAN'T. Jesus. . you mac FANBOI's never listen to anything!!!!! Your BOXED HARDWARE is *****!!! We're talking CORE ELEMENTS here, not software!!!
        If all you can admit to having is a half decent OS, you're a ***** LOSER. And again, +9 diggs says there is 9 ***** retards out there who don't know what they're talking about. God I hate Apple Fanboi TOOLS. . .
        • Myonosken, on 01/31/2008, -2/+6Roar.
        • Shadow503, on 01/31/2008, -3/+8You make me ashamed to own a PC.
        • deevay, on 01/31/2008, -4/+1What a douche......MAC LIVES ON!!
          • scrappyvintage, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Couldn't find the power button on the PC either, eh? You're right, MAC has a sweet great big power button, you deserve it, douchebag.
        • JMulert, on 01/31/2008, -2/+5Actually, No. YOU are the type of person who shouldn't be allowed on the Internet because you are rude, misinformed, and you generally aren't a nice person to interact with. Stop mucking up our Internet.
          • scrappyvintage, on 01/31/2008, -5/+2No, loser, I do what ever the ***** I'll do whatever I want to! Because this is America, and sometimes you have to yell at morons like MAC users to get them to listen (E.G.; when they compare windows, which is an OS, to a whole Mac computer). If you're stupid enough to make that argument, you deserve to get smacked the ***** down. Being right won't always get you dugg up. And ***** if I want to be grouped into the MAC Yuppie "I don't know how to turn the power off on my PC" scum department.
            What was I misinformed about? Please tell me, honestly, you don't give ANY reason you just make a claim. Please elaborate a little.
          • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -2/+3@scrappyvintage
            Blocked.
          • JMulert, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2scrappyvintage, I have to hand it to you, you are most certainly an *****, and a hypocrite. You just told me that I don't give any reason for my claim. Your whole argument is unsupported by any evidence, and in response to your question; you are misinformed about the average mac user. Not everyone has the time or desire to be an ***** power-user like yourself, so they will pay for a convenient machine that is easy to learn and deal with. Not to mention, people who don't sit at at home and try to add meaning to their life by trying to dominate forums with illogical unfounded comments may actually have friends (do I need to explain what friends are) and an image, and believe it or not people are willing to pay for their image. As for quality of components. I have never had problems with my mac, nor has any other mac user I have known. Also, for every mac sold there are ten PC's sold with lower quality components (Dell? eMachines?). So how about you go sit on it and rotate, and when you are done with that, you should go try to make a friend or two and do something nice for them to add meaning to your useless existence.
          • scrappyvintage, on 01/31/2008, -2/+2@JMulert (aka Repeat Moron)
            You idiot. I can get a comparable Dell or eMachines computer for a HALF the price of a comparable Mac. Illogical? Ask anyone who knows computers about building their own computer (as my argument points out). Now lets get to the personal stuff.
            You're the ***** for attacking me personally. You're the hypocrite. I have quite a few friends, actually. They like that I have an against the grain approach, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CORPORATE AMERICA. YOU MAC DOUCHEBAGS LIKE TO THINK YOU'RE PART OF SOME iCOMMUNITY. That is why YOU SUCK. That's why many of us think you're smug and rather idiotic, you're a bright shining corporate American loser.
            Fact: You pay too much for your computer, just for the privilege of joining an Elitist group of assholes.
            Fact: If built or bought correctly, A PC WILL LAST JUST AS LONG or LONGER than a comparable Mac FOR HALF THE PRICE. Get it through your thick head, because that's a fact.
            Fact: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ma ...
            Fact: Mac users don't care how much they blow on their computer, it is a vanity piece.
            Fact: Mac users don't get many open source applications afforded to the "Lower Class" PC user.
            Fact: The Mac user is a FANBOY. His purchase just entered him/ her into the CORPORATE ***** community.
            So, yeah, YOU SUCK. Don't attack me personally, I'M JUST ANOTHER PC USER WHO IS TIRED OF HEARING WINDOWS COMPARED TO APPLE. WINDOWS = OS (OKAY, DO YOU F'ING UNDERSTAND THIS???????????!!!!!!!!!! GOOD!!!!), APPLE = BOXED PIECE OF ***** HARDWARE. I'll say it again. WINDOWS = OS.................APPLE = JUNK FROM A BOX. So drill that in to your memory good, k?
            Now ***** OFF, and quit harassing my character. It's simply plain to see you have none.
          • JMulert, on 01/31/2008, -1/+0First off, after this post I am not going to continue this useless argument. Secondly, the only reason you were personally attacked is because you attacked me with comments like "loser," and "mac retards." Also, I have never once stated that the PC as a whole was inferior to a Mac. I own a PC in addition to my mac and I run linux and windows on it, and yes it was much cheaper than a Mac, however, I didn't buy my mac because to join an Elitist group of assholes. I bought my mac because I grew up on macs and it is a company that I trust and am comfortable with. As far as your second "fact," I never said that PC's couldn't be great machines, and while there are some awesome machines out there, it doesn't deny the fact that there are plenty of companies making crap PC's. Regarding that web page, it is complete crap. I don't see you trying ending this argument by simply shutting up ( maybe I will be lucky enough for you to prove me wrong). Then you go on to say "The Mac user is a FANBOY." I would just like to point out that while you have been parading the fact that you think PC's are far superior to macs, I, owner of a mac, have not been arguing mac's superiority, but rather arguing that you are unnecessarily aggressive and insulting. I never once spoke poorly of windows, nor did I compare it to an apple. Also, If you are trying to escape corporate America, good luck. One final note, I am not trying to tell you that a PC sucks because it doesn't, all I am trying to tell you is chill the hell out man! Its just a computer.
          • scrappyvintage, on 02/01/2008, -1/+1@JMulert
            'Bout time you bow down to me, biatch. MAC SUCKS BALLS. It's not "Just A Computer", it is a ticket to *****'dom. You pay a ridiculous amount of cash, and what do you get out of it? Questionably a decent OS and hardware you were ripped off on. Noobs buy a mac, EDUCATED CONSUMERS get a PC. It's a law basically.
        • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2If you want to rip on mac users do it because they're snobby pretentious and pompous assholes who like trendy prepackaged proprietary systems.
          • scrappyvintage, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Amen, try telling the Apple Elite Cult movement on digg that.
    • davesawyer, on 01/30/2008, -1/+14I second MondoMan. I was a huge Azureus user when I had a PC, and it was great. But I've been using Transmission ever since I made the switch and haven't looked back. Just barebones file transfer really, which is what I was looking for.
      • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Bare bones sounds good, but does it let me choose which files in a torrent I want to download, and can I set priorities for them? Bare bones, like I said, sounds good, but I still want to be able to kick in stuff like that to speed up my downloads.
        • iparker, on 01/31/2008, -2/+2I don't think it allows for that, but I did read somewhere that the newer version will offer that feature. I'm on a mac and I haven't tried transmission yet. I use azureus mainly for the safepeer plugin which blocks bad ips like the riaa, mpaa, and the people they hire to send bad packets up the pipes or to log ip's. also, azureus isn't much of a resource hog on the mac.. i think my widgets do more damage, cheers.
        • jongam, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Yes you can select which individual files you want to download. You can also set priorities, though only as download first, neutral, and download last.
    • bitspace, on 01/31/2008, -14/+2I used Transmission for a while, but have been using Xtorrent http://www.xtorrentp2p.com/ because of its simple interface and built-in multi-tracker search feature. It's not free, but easily worth the US$30 or so.
      • Ebeach, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11Xtorrent is based on Transmission. Save your money and use the free (and open source) version.
      • HydrogenOxide, on 01/31/2008, -0/+9Is there a torrent for that?
      • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5What kind of P2P user actually pays for his client?
    • Tooch07, on 01/31/2008, -2/+4I use Azureus over Transmission for the ability to edit the tracker list. Sometimes there's trackers I can't connect to/dead/etc that I can remove and speed up the torrent overall. This applies for UDP trackers too, I can never connect to them so taking them out also increases my speeds.
      • askegg, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Did you ever log a request with the developers? I have found them quite receptive to ideas and such a thing could be added with not much effort.
    • skyshock1, on 01/31/2008, -0/+22Azureus is too slow for me. Transmission is nice because it runs quickly (native app as opposed to Java).
    • kylejn, on 01/31/2008, -0/+20YES. Transmission is fast, has all the features I use, and isn't a hog like Azureus. Give Transmission a try; if you hate it, just go back to Azureus, but I'm almost certain you'll love it.
      • mrBitch, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2I love transmission - and even better is a combo of :
        Transmission + ClutchBT : http://clutchbt.com/ ( a FANTASTIC web UI for Transmission )
        ( manage your torrents from anywhere you can access the internet. )
      • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Well, a lot of people here seem to be big advocates for it, so I guess I shall.
      • Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Ya... just got back from trying it out. I'm blown away. Azureus is going out the door...
    • tastypaste, on 01/31/2008, -1/+3Transmission is great and keeps getting better, the only feature Azureus has that Transmission does not is automatic speed adjustments. On my slow ADSL, uploading too fast chokes my connection, so I have to constantly adjust Transmission's upload speed manually. That's not a problem on faster connections, so Transmission it the best bet for most people.
    • pixelbender, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1uTorrent with crossover!
    • etaubeneck, on 01/31/2008, -3/+0doesn't anyone use xtorrent?
      • DagMX, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4no. One because, it's made by a douchebag, and two because its based on an older transmission source that is banned by a lot of trackers
    • DagMX, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Transmission doesn't have DHT if I remember correctly, so azureus will give faster downloads, but ater 'zudeo' azureus is just too bloated. I know you can go back to the classical interface, but even then azureus just feels slow as a program
      • ours, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Wrong, or at least not anymore. From Wikipedia: "Peer exchange (compatible with Azureus and μTorrent)". In order words it supports main line DHT.
    • Amnesia10, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Well I have had speeds of 1800 kbs with Transmission. Much faster than with azureus.
  • BMNB1tches, on 01/30/2008, -6/+13Great Guide. This will definitely help rookies in the underground world of Torrents, or even polish up those veteran skills.

    No more Napster or Kazaa or Limewire or Rapidshare or Megaupload for me.
    • digitalarcanum, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7never underestimate the power of a good *****. www.shareminer.com is a good site for searching file upload site(s) and it's a good backup in the event that you can't find obscure things on your favorite torrent site, or even better, your torrent site is showing torrents with no seeds or peers.
    • RonJon715, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0Underground world of torrents, huh....I would say that when millions of people are using something it isn't that underground. :) Anyone who is remotely interested in tech has probably been using bittorrent for several years. Anyhow, it sucks if your just getting into torrents, all the mass populated trackers we all loved so much have been destroyed. Hopefully things will get better. TPB is good for headlines and the cause, but lets face it, the layout and interface of that site sucks....not to mention the million anti-p2p organizations looking to connect to your ip. I'm scared PeerGuardian is going to explode with the amount of anti-p2p hits I get when I'm using TPB trackers.
    • wukillabee, on 01/31/2008, -2/+0Megaupload >>>>
    • Phatt138, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1RonJon - the 'golden days' of freewheeling music and movie downloading may be over (at least if you want to ensure that you'll never face a $250,000 lawsuit for downloading that last crappy Saw movie), but BitTorrent has only grown in terms of raw users and raw amount of available material. Its days in the sun are far from over. Most new users haven't really 'missed out' on anything except the early throes of what's sure to be a long-lasting standard. It does suck that a couple of the nicer private trackers have gone down, but if you're wanting something - anything - online and can't find it, it's only because you're not looking hard enough.
      • RonJon715, on 02/03/2008, -0/+0yeah, I know...it's just nice to have it instantly laid at your feet. :)
  • nico623, on 01/30/2008, -3/+4www.torrent-finder.com is a good search-all-at-once tool.
  • ColKorn1982, on 01/30/2008, -1/+4BMNB hit it right on the nose. I never got into using torrent software, but after reading this, I think I might give it another shot. I love Top 10 Lists;)
  • TheGonzo, on 08/13/2008, -15/+9I'm new to Torrents...
    • Waskonator, on 01/30/2008, -2/+6RTFA!
    • sfacets, on 01/30/2008, -0/+6Then welcome!
    • digitallysick, on 01/30/2008, -0/+7You will be surprised at what your missing out on
    • rkzda, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7Don't digg the guy down.
      Welcome. Take a look at the list, and have fun!
    • Sabretou, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Oh no! Quick, run while you still can, or the MPAA and RIAA agents will kill you!
  • andrewcsayer, on 01/30/2008, -4/+260every time you download a torrent, God creates a kitten.
    • Braxo, on 01/30/2008, -2/+9amazing
    • sfacets, on 01/30/2008, -1/+20...and then humans download said kitten.
    • ref-d, on 01/30/2008, -8/+111And when you jack-off to your downloaded porn, god kills that kitten.
      • centran, on 01/31/2008, -0/+33It evens itself out.... the circle is complete.
        • cfuse, on 01/31/2008, -1/+18What if you just download the porn but don't watch it? Is it a case of Schrödinger's cat - the cat exists in both a live and dead state until I cum?
          • andrewcsayer, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1downloading porn and not watching it is like masturbating and not climaxing
        • nakp88d, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1What if you download the porn but don't watch it?The cats survive.Why do you think we have Caturday?
      • digitalarcanum, on 01/31/2008, -2/+7the good lord giveth and he taketh away?
    • theOster, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4then stuffs it into the tubes for sharing...
    • adml_shake, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6I want that on a shirt
    • darlyn, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gma5IUNMTn0
      • PathDaemon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1This will NEVER become the next Rick Roll.
      • rockefeller2, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1*****, I can't stop watching it!!!!!!!
        FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!
    • AdrewMc3, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Soon we will be overrun by kittens, stop downloading torrents or we will have to kill kittens, your move...
      • joot2112, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1holy ***** - this must be why we have to euthanize 4 million cats a year. STOP THE MADNESS!! (or adopt more kittens...)
    • psxman, on 01/31/2008, -1/+6Bob Barker must be pissed.
    • MrMaster2, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Fark FTW
  • Makaveli604, on 01/30/2008, -11/+35"Search for the best of the best with youTorrent"

    ROFL. OMG IT INDEXES 3 PUBLIC TRACKERS WIN

    and this was high on the list..
    • BMNB1tches, on 01/30/2008, -2/+14Maybe because it's clean, efficient, variety, 2.0, and You.
      • Anonemousk, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Can you tell me exactly what "2.0" stands for, and how it's technically different? Thanks.
        • Ellipsys, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Shiny. Buttons have beveled edges or some such. Bright colors. And you can interact with it! Web 2.0 is generally marketing drivel.
    • NinjaJoey, on 01/31/2008, -2/+4Actually, I counted 14. Anyway, it's often easier to download from public trackers, since I don't have to worry about my ratio.
      • Anonemousk, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4That's code for "I'm a self-centered leech, who fails at grasping the basic premise of how torrents work."
        • airstrike, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3or "i live in a developing country with ***** bandwidth (1mbit/128k) and keeping the ratio up ***** sucks at times".
        • NinjaJoey, on 02/01/2008, -0/+2Or code for "I'm likely a member of more private torrent trackers than you even know of and sometimes want to download uninhibitied. kthxbai"
          • Makaveli604, on 02/02/2008, -0/+1Uninhibitied?!!?
            lmao
            pretty sure dling on public trackers blows and will never be done after u get PU on damn near any good tracker
  • Birdoftruth, on 01/30/2008, -8/+17God lifehacker is one of the most impressive blogs out there. It seems like it always has something interesting.
  • nitsnipe, on 01/30/2008, -1/+57This list should have included more material on how to protect yourself from getting caught from the RIAA and others.
    • Superfreak77, on 01/31/2008, -0/+15I'm outside NorthamUSACanada, Riaa can suck my balls!
      ne ne ne ne ne!!
    • capiCrimm, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4onion router if you're worried. If that's too slow your neighbors unprotected wifi. If that too slow bite the bullet and think of an excuse for when you're caught(if you're caught)
      • capiCrimm, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4also, change your mac address if your using someone else's router.
    • Yodacola, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Quick Tutorial:
      Go to http://www.bluetack.co.uk/
      Download Block list
      add in app data in a torrent
  • scrappyvintage, on 01/30/2008, -13/+1Check out apex dc++. This may be the next revolution in bittorrent.
  • rickremixx, on 01/30/2008, -3/+10love transmission and my MAC ill never go back
    • digitalarcanum, on 01/31/2008, -1/+13hey, you can have transmission, I've nothing but love for utorrent.
      • mrBitch, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2you are both right, when I was on a PC, utorrent is the best ( light weight, low overhead, feature rich ). Since I have switched - I found Transmission is the utorrent of the Mac OSX world ( Transmission : light weight, low overhead, feature rich ).
    • KMartSheriff, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8Media Access Control (MAC address)?
  • doxidon, on 01/30/2008, -2/+0Id suggest http://www.seedpeer.com for torrents as they have a verified torrents section
  • rstarr, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2I've always used TVShows for Mac but it has been skipping a lot of episodes lately. Anyone out there tried both Ted and TVShows and can weigh in on it for me?
    • sfacets, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2They both use the same database for the shows, in my opinion TVShows is simpler, cleaner and just better.
    • illegalcortex, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3I can't speak to both, but I know Ted occasionally makes me cranky with missed episodes. There are some shows that I've simply had to set up as RSS feeds in uTorrent instead.
  • Marijuana, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2Yes we all have our preferences. Mine are BitTyrant and www.torrents.to.
  • Kenzan, on 01/30/2008, -13/+12It's fun to steal!
  • kenedamick, on 01/30/2008, -16/+8But didn't "RON PAUL" create the torrents?
  • digitallysick, on 01/30/2008, -1/+12My fav on linux was ktorrent, even though they have azureus for linux i always found it to be buggy. Ktorrent reminds me of utorrent, i recommend it for all linux users.
    • ours, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1KTorrent is real cool. It even has an IP blocker plugin that can use bluestack's IP list (in Peerguardian format). General UI is not as clean as uTorrnet but pretty close but just as powerful.
    • enterneo, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Ktorrent is qt based, does not look good on GNOME
  • djbon2112, on 01/30/2008, -5/+16Hrm, they failed to mention that uTorrent runs flawlessly in WINE. Otherwise, very good.
    • skyshock1, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Um, no. I've had it running under WINE occasionally, but now there's an issue where the GUI doesn't show up even though the process is shown as running when running $ ps aux. When it DOES show up, it's fantastic, but it's not flawless yet.
      • JulioChavez, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2Why the ***** would you run a bittorrent app under WINE ?
        • skyshock1, on 01/31/2008, -1/+3Because there's no bit torrent client written natively for Linux that is as good as uTorrent yet? Also, why the ***** not?
        • djbon2112, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Because uTorrent is simply the best Bittorrent app out there? It's got all the functionality you need, in a sleek layout which is very light on system resources (even under WINE). The only bad thing about it (aside from it being freeware and not FOSS) is that it's "only" for Windows.
      • djbon2112, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Which version of WINE, and which version of uTorrent? All the recent releases of both are very compatible, with a small GUI issue and nothing more, which itself is fixed by running the app in "Windows Vista" mode.
    • willr001, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1someone mentioned it in the comments there, and someone was bitching in the comments about torrents slowing their internet down. If i had an account there i'd have told them abouth QoS settings (hopefully) in their router, but i guess they'll have to suffer
      • chousho, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0Seeing as you have an account here, you can tell us :)
  • TheMarenum, on 01/31/2008, -5/+9Lifehacker always has the most useful things.
    • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -3/+2I would like to stab you to death with a plastic spork, but that wouldn't be painful enough.
  • Armor1901, on 01/31/2008, -4/+8Dugg for managing uTorrent through my iPhone.
    • skyshock1, on 01/31/2008, -2/+5Buried for not mentioning managing aria2c through my SSH client on my Nokia N95. :P
      • NinjaJoey, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Nokia N95 kills the iPhone. And it's older. And cheaper. And can copy and paste...
      • avihappy, on 01/31/2008, -3/+2Any good jailbroken iPhone has a terminal and openSSH on it.
  • MattBD, on 01/31/2008, -2/+10I really like Deluge in Kubuntu.
  • LeopardGirl420, on 01/31/2008, -3/+7dugg for mention of Peer Guardian! Although it should have been #1 or #2 on that list.
  • greenlight2001, on 01/31/2008, -3/+5What are people's thoughts on using the newer versions of utorrent past v1.6? There was some rabbling about the company who bought it and the newer versions being released having potential spyware/privacy issues? I still run 1.6.
    • KMartSheriff, on 01/31/2008, -3/+4Take off your tin foil hat.
      • greenlight2001, on 01/31/2008, -5/+3Did I propose a conspiracy theory here? No you piece of *****, I was asking for people's opinion.
        • feebleminded, on 01/31/2008, -3/+4ask a question, get a legitimate response, call the response a piece of *****.
          the "people's opinion" has spoken, keep running 1.6 and don't take your tin foil hat off just get your tubes tied.
    • lump1, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2I've been letting mine auto-install updates, so far everything is working well. Honestly, I can't name one difference that I've noticed since version 1.6. Most of the fixes have to do with internal things and not things that appear in the UI.

      I think that the uTorrent team knows that filesharers will not tolerate ***** and will run like hell from any product that even reminds us of spyware or adware. Luckily, there are many good torrent clients to flee to if uTorrent becomes poisoned.
  • dkern, on 01/31/2008, -4/+5Awesome- you can download all the network's insipid ***** television shows faster? No thanks- I'd rather cruise Revision3, Digg, Youtube and the like and watch funnier stuff from real people that aren't trying to sell you ***** every 0.7 seconds.
    • rstarr, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Yeah, except there's no commercials...
    • Mamesj, on 01/31/2008, -2/+3I know it sounds strange but nintendo 64 kid, guy crying about Britney Spears, 2girls1cup reaction vids, and some-random-guy-who-thinks-he's-funny-doing-something-stupid-or-talking-in-a-funny-voice all don't match up to an episode of the Simpsons...even the newer episodes (or insert any good network tv show here.)
    • Sabretou, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Welcome to BitTorrent, dkern.
  • LemonChicken, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I'm behind a proxy server, anybody know how to get through it?
    • Ghiren, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Get through it, no. Get around it, yes.

      Even if the proxy server doesn't keep logs of who uses it, traffic analysis can still read packets going in and packets going out, then determine where the outgoing packet is headed. Of course, with lots of traffic going in and out of the proxy server for multiple users, "needle in a haystack" is an understatement, but it's still theoretically possible. Now if the outgoing packets were encrypted (like with TOR), then there's nothing to match the incoming packets to.
    • Zaggynl, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2You could tunnel your traffic to your home PC via ssh:
      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tunnel+bittor ...
      http://freebsdcluster.org/~lasse/sshazureustunnel/
  • neiltc13, on 01/31/2008, -8/+7Number one trick - buy a usenet subscription!
    • willr001, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1at my old work (at a university) we would end up getting our interwebs cut off if we were torrenting, cuz an unthrottled upload would hit like 5MB/s (thats B not b). So when we needed files we would hit up usenet. no subscription though, and several MB/s downloads... I can't remember what servers we would connect to though....

      anyone know good free usenet server?
      • Pelapp, on 01/31/2008, -2/+2There is no Usenet.
        Stay with Bittorrent.
    • tekirkedicik, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1you are right usenet is the thing ssssh dont wake them up after torrent those riaa pricks comes after usenet
  • wil2200, on 01/31/2008, -4/+2uTorrent + PeerGuardian2 + ProtoWall (takes a little effort to set up) + custom block lists for PG2 + Bitdefender
  • likwidfuzion, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10µTorrent's small footprint and excellent performance/speeds = Win.
  • ishmael2, on 01/31/2008, -9/+2Pro tip - Be a scumbag and use NetLimiter to limit your upload speed without utorrent throttling your download.
  • twodayslate, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3http://moblock.berlios.de/ is the linux alternative to PG

    deb: http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/
  • sonicjosh, on 01/31/2008, -3/+1I like utorrent; use it on both windows and linux.
  • darkkmind, on 01/31/2008, -2/+2Uhm unless you have the old version. I'd stay away from utorrent if I was you.
    • willr001, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1any particular reason?
      • thethimble, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1utorrent was bought by bittorrent inc. (a company that is inherently evil)
      • pato88, on 01/31/2008, -1/+0bittorrent bought utorrent. v1.7+ is 'tainted' - for lack of a better word. they can monitor your downloads.

        best to continue using v1.6 - unless you're downloading legal and could benefit from the extra features in 1.7!

        http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=utorrent

        ^^ old version.
  • ORMEs, on 01/31/2008, -1/+0http://scrapetorrent.com tends to find more than sites like http://torrentem.com
  • MITAC, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0microtorrent is all you need these days. I remember back in the days that i used emule for rare files. Now i dont need it anymore, torrents simply conquered the web.
  • NeoCenTek, on 01/31/2008, -5/+1I was a former uTorrent user. Now i use Flashget and won't use anything else now. Flashget has encryption and MUCH better speeds than uTorrent. I used the same connection settings and somehow the speeds are much faster! Try it for yourself and see.
    • RonJon715, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3uTorrent supports encryption...it has for a long time.
  • bennovw, on 01/31/2008, -3/+1YouTorrent made my day!
  • hugeposuer, on 01/31/2008, -1/+1cfosSpeed is the best tool available when running any torrent client.
  • JoshyLeeArm, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0This is great but I'm still pissed that I can't get an invite to Waffles.
  • merrychristmass, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Dugg for having BSG in torrent download.
  • stackered, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2Hmmm.... I run Azureus. Is uTorrent really that much better (obviously as a RAM saver)? Anyway thanks for YouTorrent (I pretty much use isoHunt and Google).
    • feebleminded, on 01/31/2008, -1/+2RAM yes, bandwidth no
    • Zaggynl, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1The JVM sure eats a lot of RAM, where uTorrent has been magically shrinked and optimized.
      I heard Azureus is better with bandwidth, haven't tried myself though.
  • Rizmaster, on 01/31/2008, -1/+4Usenet. Way better.
    • Anonemousk, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2I have no clue why you were buried... but dugg for the truth.
    • willr001, on 01/31/2008, -2/+5anyone know a good free usenet server?
  • floatingpoints, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3torrentflux is good for linux file servers.
  • fortestingonly, on 01/31/2008, -7/+0ray123pin@sympatico.ca
    • gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5wtf are you posting this for, you want free gay spam?

      done!
  • heavensent70x7, on 01/31/2008, -4/+1ok, maybe its just me, but all this talk about utorrent, bit-whatever and -blah-torrent is just boring. I use flashget and it works better than any of those have.
  • plizard, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1ug ftw
  • minigamer1896, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Grrh. I dislike how (The wiki that's linked to under #6) http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_BitTorrent_To ... recommends using TOR as it reduces the network capibility for all of the users.
  • uberdilly, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1They also forget to mention how you can virtualize windows and download using your neighbors wireless while connecting to your wireless on your primary operating system simultaneously.
  • Bitgod, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I thought you were supposed to stay away from utorrent after they got bought or something? I've stuck with my 1.7.2, what are the cons of updating?
  • captainjackrox, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0You can also use http://www.torrentspam.com, just put the hash or filename in the search and you can see what file is spam.
    Plus that site has a web-based file sharing chat room which no one else has.
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