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What Torrent software is everyone using?
« on: January 04, 2012, 11:52:42 AM »
EASE OF INSTALL AND SET UP IS PARAMOUNT!

The CD burner thread piqued my interest...

I gave up on Torrents years a go...and want to try again...This will be on a Laptop over WiFi and a desktop with Ethernet cable to WiFi router
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 01:49:16 PM »
Can't get any easier than Opera's built in torrent client. Just click the torrent link and Opera does the rest, no configuration necessary and as far as I know the only thing you can change is the port Opera uses for torrents.

That said I usually use transmission since dime doesn't update my ratio when using Opera's built-in client - dime recognizes my download but doesn't credit my uploads. That's the only problem I've encountered with Opera's client.

< eta I use Linux (w/transmission) as an OS so don't keep up with what is current in the Win/Mac world >
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 01:58:22 PM »
I think uTorrent is probably the most used client today.  It's been my favorite ever since Azureus morphed into Vuze and became a bloated mess.  One thing to beware, though, is that I spent about 2 months troubleshooting BSOD problems on a new computer build a year or so ago.  It drove me nuts, and ultimately I traced it back to an incompatibility between the (then) new version 3 of uTorrent and my Realtek LAN driver.  I downgraded to a previous 2.x version of uTorrent on that system and it's been running flawlessly ever since.  I'm not even sure what version of uTorrent is out now -- maybe I would be okay upgrading now, but I've never felt the need.
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 02:04:34 PM »
Is it safe to assume you need a torrent client for a Windows machine?

As for myself, I've been using an old (1.6 or 1.7, maybe?), pre-BitTorrent acquired, self-contained version of uTorrent for years with no issues.

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 02:04:52 PM »
I use utorrent.
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 02:35:11 PM »
I used uTorrent until I moved to a seedbox (which has been awesome...but it costs $$ monthly and is a little more work than a local machine).

Here is a guide for uTorrent.

http://www.utorrent.com/help/guides/connection-setup
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 03:21:26 PM »
ah...yeah Windoze...I went to the dark side of computing in 2005...had been a original Mac adopter back to the SE30...but the call of Laptop computing and the wife was ready for a home PC to telecommute...
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 03:31:29 PM »
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2012, 03:38:05 PM »
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2012, 04:57:14 PM »
uTorrent.
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2012, 05:44:33 PM »
EASE OF INSTALL AND SET UP IS PARAMOUNT!

uTorrent for Windows, but Transmission for Macs. 

Only reason to use anything else is for a particular client's special capabilities, but you specify ease of use.  I use Vuze in the "classic/Azureus" mode solely for its queuing capabilities, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone who didn't want/need that capability.   
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 11:03:45 PM »
Deluge.

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2012, 12:22:44 PM »
uTorrent.
Yep.

And if you need a foolproof guide with pictures, I made one. Step by step process.
Quite a few people have used it here.

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2012, 02:30:15 PM »
Transmission.  (on a mac)

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2012, 03:01:55 PM »
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

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2012, 03:56:55 PM »
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/

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2012, 05:32:34 PM »
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
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2012, 06:13:35 PM »
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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2012, 11:27:31 PM »
qBittorrent on a dedicated Ubuntu box

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

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Re: What Torrent software is everyone using?
« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2012, 03:09:25 PM »
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.
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