<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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 <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> Knapp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:%3Cf495db580908130349r234f444r51397813d32f71e2@mail.gmail.com%3E" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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! </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>