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Title: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: Slacker on May 17, 2012, 07:22:13 AM
For those of you that would like an alternative to uTorrrent.

Many of these are very nice alternatives, but please be aware I've listed many clients to make this a more complete list. Some of these might not be so great, so play around and see, I'm sure they won't blow up your computer, LOL... ;)


BitComet - Read to many negative things, but you might like it
http://www.bitcomet.com/ (http://www.bitcomet.com/)

BitLord
http://www.bitlord.com/ (http://www.bitlord.com/)

BitSpirit
http://www.bitspirit.cc/en/ (http://www.bitspirit.cc/en/)

BitTorrent - Yes the people that started it all, also a pretty big client, but you might like it
http://www.bittorrent.com/ (http://www.bittorrent.com/)

Deluge
http://deluge-torrent.org/ (http://deluge-torrent.org/)

KTorrent KDE Linux
http://ktorrent.org/?q=screenshots (http://ktorrent.org/?q=screenshots)

qBittorrent
http://www.qbittorrent.org/ (http://www.qbittorrent.org/)

Tixati
http://www.tixati.com/ (http://www.tixati.com/)

Transmission
http://www.transmissionbt.com/ (http://www.transmissionbt.com/)

Transmission - Unofficial Windows Version - Also check on Transmission's forum about Windows clients
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/)

Tribler - As their website states; 'A different BitTorrent client'
http://www.tribler.org/trac (http://www.tribler.org/trac)

vuze - A bit bloated but you might like it
https://www.vuze.com/ (https://www.vuze.com/)

Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: Reuben on May 17, 2012, 02:50:41 PM
Some further comments.

Transmission on Mac is a pretty well respected client.
Vuze (formerly Azureus) is the only Mac client I know that has full SOCKS5 support for the P2P traffic. Transmission only proxies the tracker communication.

For linux, I like rTorrent :D
Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: Slacker on May 19, 2012, 12:34:40 PM
Transmission on Ubuntu and Ubuntu based Linux versions is the standard client installed, so it's pretty common...

In Linux I've really liked Deluge...

Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: nzbrocket on September 04, 2013, 05:30:52 PM
Additionally to this torrent thread: there is a free media player Rox Player (http://roxplayer.com/) that is able to stream torrent files. While it streams it also downloads it so make both things at the same time.
Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: Slacker on October 04, 2013, 09:36:50 AM
I just added above KTorrent for KDE users in Linux...

http://ktorrent.org/?q=screenshots (http://ktorrent.org/?q=screenshots)

Actually a really nice client too.
Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: maxbudin on October 06, 2013, 04:20:43 AM
Since we cant view the IPT forums to varify, anyone know which of these listed here are approved clients/versions?  As there might be a update/change to approved clients where some were not allowed for whatever reason and now perhaps given the green light due to fixes made as new versions.  I am interested to try out some of these but am not willing to test on public sites for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: Slacker on October 13, 2013, 06:00:47 AM
Since we cant view the IPT forums to varify, anyone know which of these listed here are approved clients/versions?  As there might be a update/change to approved clients where some were not allowed for whatever reason and now perhaps given the green light due to fixes made as new versions.  I am interested to try out some of these but am not willing to test on public sites for obvious reasons.

I don't know, but if you're asking, don't you have access to IPT? I'm sure like most Torrent Trackers they list the approved and disapproved clients you can and can't use...
Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: maxbudin on October 14, 2013, 03:01:58 AM
Well bro, I've done a DUH .... havent I.  :P   I looked high and low in their FAQ and rules; couldnt find their list of recommended and disapproved clients, 'till I hit their home screen which I had always bypass.  Even still their list of approved clients is certainly limited compared to those mentioned here for 'testing' without getting banned.
Title: Re: Alternative P2P - Torrent Clients
Post by: Slacker on October 14, 2013, 08:06:48 AM
Ahh ok, just send them a message to find out if you want to use a different client to make sure it's ok... :)