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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 12, 2008
- Total Downloads: 15,144,990
- Downloads last week: 19,897
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 569 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 07, 2008
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. BitTorrent DNA, which stands for Delivery Network Accelerator. Version 6.0.2 build 8388 includes unspecified updates.
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Version 6.0.2 build 8388 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews of BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 569 votes
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388
Pros: it finds peers faster than any other client. after opening the port it recquires DL increased. its lightweight. it's multilingual. you can configure your search engines to use them from within bittorrent. altough it manages several connections at a time, it doesn't overload your connection like bitcomet does. when adding new tasks you cand select what files to DL and what to exlcude, you cad add those later.
Cons: haven't found yet.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388
Pros: Quick download speed and easy to use.
Cons: torrents start slowly and when something happens that cuts your internet connection or close bittorrent or stops the torrent from downloading, it takes a long time to return to the original downloading speed.
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388
Pros: find anything
Cons: hard to learn to find what u want
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388
Pros: It requires a few system resources, and it is very fast. It uses an efficient writing and reading cache (giving a longer life to your hard disk). It does not overload your connection (like other clients do). It is simple to configure thanks to the "Speed Guide" menu (CTRL+G): you have to indicate only what is your maximum upload bandwidht.
Cons: No one.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388
"Good Software, delivers whatever it says"
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