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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 06, 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 5.0.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of BitTorrent 5.0.5
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 564 votes
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30 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.5
Pros: This program is one of the best or if not the best downloading program out there. You can download whatever you want at very high speeds if you confgiure it right. It also has no spyware embedded in the code which makes it even better and for people saying that it has spyware, they should watch what they download. Overall this is an awesome program that i'd recommend to anybody.
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17 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.5
Pros: .
Cons: Azureus is better, and open-source as well. Get that
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17 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.5
"not bad ,does its job,definatly worth a go as p2p goes"
Pros: easy to use, and again good average download rates
Cons: could be quicker as there are others out there that i would say are faster and more stable-Azureus or utorrent1.6, I,(depending on seeds) can get between 45 to 220 kbytes per sec download throughout the day on other2 where i find bittorrent alittle slower and less stable when downloading a few files at once,mind u depends on internet settings,and PC speed,anyhow -each to there own
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19 out of 37 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.5
Pros: gues you havent tried BitComet, it is mush better and faster than Kazaa and all the other P2P. If you dont like this prog, or if you like it, download BitComet, very fast download speed.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.5
"Reliable and one of the few that is free of spyware."
Pros: It's one of the few torrents without spyware and it's safe and reliable to use, and you don't need to be a tech genius or hastle with settings.. Alls you need to do is download and go.
Despite it being a bit slow it is far worth it rather then dealing with spyware, and hassling for long hours with technical issues ad port forwarding issues..
Cons: A bit slow but better then the rest overall
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