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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 04, 2006
- 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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CNET editors' review
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's software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games. Available in over 20 languages, it leverages our community of over 70 million users to securely deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there. Features include detailed graphs and stats on the health of digital media files provide you a safer, more controlled downloading experience, local peer discovery and automatic port mapping increase file transfer speed without the need to reconfigure routers or other hardware, and dynamic bandwidth management allows you to download content without disrupting Web browsing, e-mail, or other applications. By using software that was built by the same team that invented BitTorrent, you are guaranteed access to the latest, most efficient methods of getting digital content to your desktop.
Version 4.26 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of BitTorrent 4.26
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 564 votes
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28 out of 28 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.26
Pros: This is the original Bit Torrent client, this is the only merit it has.
Cons: What I didn't like:
- Very, very slow when compared to uTorrent, and speed is all that counts when it comes to dowloading large files, right?
- It tooke me 1 hour to get a 100 Mb file, then just for the test I downloaded the same file in 15 minutes with uTorrent.
- Ugly and unfriendly user interface, complicated to use.
- When I tried to uninstall it, it gave me an error.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.26
"I'll never go back to Kazaa, ever."
Pros: Simple to use once it's installed, just point to the torrent, click, and the file starts downloading; no signing up for anything, nothing to log into. Only thing is, you gotta do a bit of searching to find the file you want, and you gotta hope that it's seeded. Some nice places to start searching is suprnova.org, and for anime fanatics like myself, animesuki.com and downloadanime.org For those who wanna limit the upload rate so that your surfing doesn't slow to a crawl, try a different client such as Azureus and BitTornado (search Google for either), they've got all sorts of features that the standard BitTorrent client lacks, upload cap being one of them. Then get out there and start Torrenting like a champ.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.26
Pros: You can find anything you need on bittorent. It have everything you want
Cons: The speed are too slow
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.26
Pros: Very nice GUI, much more eye pleasing then the old console version (BitTornado look)..
Multiple torrents per window is nice addition
Download speed has been good for the torrents i tested.
Please stop posting reviews for the PROTOCOL, this is a PROGRAM... BitTorrent as a protocol may not live up to your expectations, but as a Program dont discredit it
Cons: Doesnt give as many advanced settings as the old version did...
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 4.26
Pros: BitTorrent is a very useful yet simple program to download torrent files. However, If you are thinking of getting this version, dont, as you should get bittorrent version 4 instead. It has more options and a better interface. There is also no spyware or adware that is bundled with this software. Overall a fantastic piece of software
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