Saturday, June 21, 2008

The 13 Best Torrent Downloaders

torrent Acquisition is torrent client, which allows to share files with tens of millions of Mac and Windows users around the planet. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Opera is the fastest, and most secure free Web browser available. You don’t need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.

Arctic Torrent is an Open Source minimal BitTorrent client. It won’t have all the pretty features that other Torrent apps have, but focuses on low memory and cpu usage. Because it was written in C++, you dont get the high memory requirements of Java or high CPU usage of Python. Arctic is tested on Windows XP and should work on 2000, XP, and 2003 in 32-bit and 64-bit. It uses Unicode and thus will not run on Windows 9x.

Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users. Runs on all operating systems.

BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely free. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more. Runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Windows 98/Me can use the ZIP version.

Torrent Swapper is an open source sociable peer to peer file-sharing client based on the Bittorrent protocol that is ideal for high-speed distribution of large files that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users. Torrent Swapper supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Works with Linux, OS X and Windows.

BitLord is a powerful C++ BitTorrent Client. BitLord is a p2p file-sharing freeware program fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.Works with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003.

μTorrent is a BitTorrent client that includes bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification and peer exchange. Windows only.

BitSpirit is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, UPNP port-maping, NAT traversal(UDP transport), select downloads from multiple files torrent package, disk cache, chatting with other peers, torrent market,ip-filter, etc. Runs on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003.

BitTornado is a BitTorrent client. Works on Windows, Linux, OS X, BSD.

BitTorrent for Windows brings together BitTorrent’s proven expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent’s efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client.

BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. Works with Linux, OS X, and Windows.

FlashGet is a leading download manager and has the highest amount of users on the Internet. It uses MHT(Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has excellent document management features. FlashGet is a freeware without any adware or spyware.

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