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- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 01, 2003
- Total Downloads: 14,890,601
- Downloads last week: 33,109
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 564 votes
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Reviewed by: CNET Staff
BitTorrent hadn't seen a major update in about two years, but that was before it bought out uTorrent. Now, adopting its new sibling's interface has completely reinvigorated the original BitTorrent client.
Previously, BT had lacked features that other torrent innovators had spent time testing and investing in. Now, in one fell swoop, BT has access to everything it lacked. You can pick which files in a torrent you want to download, throttle your Internet connection to suit your whims, muck about with the Web UI and, basically, do everything that uTorrent can do.
There's an RSS tracker and search bar, just like in uTorrent, but there's where we encounter one key difference. Where uTorrent's search takes you to the MiniNova torrent site, BitTorrent's goes to BitTorrent.com, a pay-for-most-content site. There's also a menu bar item in the BitTorrent client called Get Stuff, with links to Movies, TV, Music, and Games at the BitTorrent content site.
Without a doubt, BitTorrent has taken drastic steps to reverse course and unsink its sinking ship. Although BT still eats more memory than its new sibling, it's hogging significantly less than before. The install file reflects the new code, shrinking from nearly 6MB for version 5 to less than 1MB for version 6.
BT also comes with a small piece of software called DNA. The BT site calls it protocol for "Delivery Network Acceleration," but beyond a nebulous description, it's hard to tell what exactly it does.
Publisher's description
From BitTorrent :BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed for transferring files. Users connect directly to send and receive portions of the file, while a central tracker coordinates the action of all such peers, yet manages connections without knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed. With BitTorrent, users upload at the same time they download, so that network bandwidth is managed as efficiently as possible. In contrast to other file-transfer protocols, BitTorrent is designed to work better as the number of people interested in a certain file increases. The latest version now takes command-line arguments and also includes several bug fixes.
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