Topic: What Torrent software is everyone using?

[Fried Chicken Boy]

While the torrent software suggested above (utorrent for win/transmission for mac) is easy to set up and get running, the potentially frustrating part of properly setting up a bittorrent setting is getting the ROUTER configured to forward the appropriate ports to the computer running the bittorrent software.  Without port forwarding properly configured, the bittorrent software won't be able to effectively respond to upload requests and will, in turn, be limited on its download bandwidth.

Let us know what wifi router you're using so we can help direct you to instructions on how to forward the necessary ports

Exactly.  For me, it was just the matter of setting up a static IP address on my machine and then forwarding the ports on my router.  Everything else fell into place after that.

This website is indispensable for helping you do that and covers just about all OS's, firewalls and  routers. > http://portforward.com/

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

I'm under the impression that if your router supports UPnP it will work with uTorrent to make sure you're good to go.

Just enable UPnP and NAT-PMP and the same in uTorrent and the router will open the required ports.

Sorry I can't check that in uTorrent since I don't run torrents at home anymore.

I'm running Tomato Firmware on my router. All it takes is a couple of check marks to enable UPnP and NAT-PMP.

Don't want to get off topic, but if you want to check out Tomato you can see if your router is supported here:

http://www.polarcloud.com/firmware

[cybergaloot]

qBittorrent on a dedicated Ubuntu box

[F.O.Bean]

I use utorrent.

[tim in jersey]

qBittorrent on a dedicated Ubuntu box

qBittorrent looks a great deal like Deluge. But with more options. Gonna give it a spin... Thanks.

[cybergaloot]

qBittorrent on a dedicated Ubuntu box

qBittorrent looks a great deal like Deluge. But with more options. Gonna give it a spin... Thanks.

It has a bunch of quirks and could use some additional features. On my machine, if I do anything to a file just as it moves from downloading to completed, it hangs up the program. I have also found that torrents that seem stalled can sometimes be kick-started by restart the program, sometimes two or three times. Error messages sometimes wont go away until you restart the program. But it works and I haven't been able to get uTorrent to run in Wine on Ubuntu.