What is the best torrent software?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

At first, I used Azureus, which really is a fine Bittorrent program.  
However, I've also discovered that KTorrent, which comes with KDE and 
doesn't require Java, is also a mighty fine Bittorrent program.  I 
mostly use KTorrent now.

Which one is "best"?  It really depends on your personal preferences.  
The "fastest" will depend a lot more on the speed of your Internet 
connection than whether or not you turn on/off encryption.  I have mine 
set to accept both encrypted and unencrypted connections, because (being 
a Free Software advocate) I share GNU/Linux ISO's, and therefore I want 
the most people to be able to connect to me.

I'm on a cable modem with 2Mbps upload speed.  Therefore, I allow 20 
download slots per torrent.  That means I could potentially upload to 20 
people, though in actual practice, it averages about eight at a time.  
Be sure to adjust your "number of people who can connect to you" setting 
appropriately!  For example, I have three GNU/Linux ISO torrents 
(CentOS, Ubuntu Jaunty, and Slackware 12.2).  So, I set that number to 3 
torrents times 20 connections/torrent = 60 possible connections to me.  
No, this does not kill my broadband link.  Remember, Bittorrent being a 
peer-to-peer protocol, peers can and will download from any other peer, 
not just me.

One other very important thing!  If you're behind a NAT device, be sure 
to do the appropriate port-forwarding on your router!  Otherwise, you 
can connect to others, but they can't connect to you, so your downloads 
will be S-L-O-W.  That's because Bittorrent requires you to upload as 
well as download.  To help with this, I also turn on DHT.  This can be a 
big help.

Hopefully this helps,

--TP
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Knapp wrote:
> I was looking at all the torrent software. There seems to be a lot of them.
> Deluge, Bittorrent, cTorrent, rTorrent, ktorrent and others. I see it
> as a plus if I can use it on the CLI. But which is the fastest? Which
> has the most features? Thoughts?
>
> Also for settings? I use encrypted settings now and that seems to
> result in faster downloads but there are a lot of other settings that
> might speed things up.
>
> Thanks all!
>
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