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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.
New lightweight client based on uTorrent, local peer discover, a configurable bandwidth schedule, an RSS downloader, and other new features. Version 6.0.1 build 7859 comes with BitTorrent DNA, which stands for Delivery Network Accelerator.
What's new in this version: Version 6.0.1 build 7859 comes with BitTorrent DNA, which stands for Delivery Network Accelerator.
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3.7 starsout of 687 votes
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Current version:
4.1 starsout of 22 votes
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"dynamyc and curios"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
eazy and popular
Cons
not very fast
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"wow this is great :]"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
im not really sure
Cons
i dont really know
Summary
i havent tr
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"Good but not so good."
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Cons
The download speed is too slow.
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"IT SUCK'S WIND BIG TIME"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
CAN'T DOWNLOAD NOTHING WHITH IT
Cons
NOTHING
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"great torrent client."
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
it finds peers very quickly, doesn't overload my dsl connection (wich b|+ç0m3+ does), lightweight client, small download, no adware, virus free. best i've tried.
Cons
haven't found yet.
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"easy to find porn movies"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
easy to download movies and tv series.
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"not bad"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
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"fast and reliable"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
read above :)
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"its quick and easy"
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
ive only used this 3 times but its doing what it should, easy to understand.
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"Simple, fast."
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859
Pros
-Well it seems like those other user reviews are junk.-
It really is simple. You don't really have to touch the settings if you can't handle it, yet there's a few things you can play around with if you can. Doesn't seem to be too resource-hogging and it's certainly not obtrusive. I can't speak in comparison to other torrent clients from experience but it's certainly better than your average 'bittorrent-built-in' from P2P's (your music downloader or whatever).
Cons
Please note that torrents, by their nature, tend to take a lot longer than direct-downloads. However, whether you are new to torrents or not, I would recommend this. 6.0 had a tendency to crash, but apparently that is fixed.
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