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CNET Editors' review
Torrent Swapper mashes a perfectly reasonable torrent client with the idea of a burgeoning community.
Many Web-based communities have been successful at creating torrenting networks, but there hasn't been one that's been tied to the torrent client itself until Torrent Swapper. The Torrent Swapper community is a well-designed recommendation system that lets you rate torrents and grab the torrent file itself from your "Friends."
Once you've opened a torrent, you can access the two community functions. The white star toolbar icon gives you access to Recommendations and Download History. Recommended torrents show a rating, the number of sources sharing them, the number of files in the torrent, and the torrent's tracker location. You can set the list to only show torrents with a recommendation above a minimum threshold, helping you avoid bad torrents. From within your Download History, you can rate the torrents you've downloaded.
The Manage Friends/Encountered Peers icon lets you add, edit, and remove Friends, while the Encountered Peers list keeps track of everybody who has opened any of the same torrent files that you've opened. This makes it easier to add and find friends, ostensibly with similar sharing habits as you.
Given the basis for Torrent Swapper's community, it's impossible to mask your IP address as you can in other torrent clients. Swapper also feels a bit clunky, and frequently lags when starting downloads. But if you'd like more direct feedback, or if you miss the immediacy of communicating like you can in LimeWire and Kazaa, you might want to swap in Torrent Swapper.
Publisher's Description
From Torrent Swapper:
Torrent Swapper is an open sourced sociable peer to peer file-sharing client based on the Bittorrent protocol that is ideal for high-speed distribution of large files that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users. Torrent Swapper supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, and ip-filter.
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3.3 starsout of 52 votes
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3.3 starsout of 52 votes
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"Best Torrent site"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
Pros
I'm a member of torrentzilla and i must say this has to be THE best private community torrent sites i've ever been a part of.you get games as fast as 1 week before retail release dates,movies music and the best of all i have never in the three to two yrs i have been a member i have NEVER caught a virus.so join up now it's always room.tell them elsithrey sent you lol.torrentzilla.org
Cons
you have to keep your ratio up or your out,you should be sharing anyway.
Summary
this is in my humble opinion the best torrent site i know of.
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"Never got it to work"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
Pros
nothing since it would not work and the documentation/help was non existant
Cons
I kept getting an error message that port 57666 was not available
Summary
Error messages on connection attempt, no documentation or help. Don't bother!
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"Found others files"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
Pros
Very good at finding other peoples files
Cons
After 4 hours (tied no fire wall, no virus protect) Not one bit..Stayed at, Progress 0. Using Windows XP
Summary
Would be a great program...IF it worked.
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"It's the best"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
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"very nice thankyou"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
Pros
veyr fast cleaning the laptop.
Cons
nothing all is veryvery goooooood
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"best stuff"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
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"Didn't work for me."
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
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"GREAT."
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
Pros
THE POSSIBILITIES.
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"great"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
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enjoy programs
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download you
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"Been using 2 months - WORKS well - gets me what I want"
Version: Torrent Swapper 1.0
Pros
I was new to torrents. This is simple basic for a learner. The down load bitrate is very small, but I have never lost a connection and the files do eventually finish. They are large files, to be fair. Really has got me what I want totally FREE, no ads, upgrade nags.....made by students.
Cons
There is often a 3-5 sec delay when I make a command, but it does follow through. It doesn't like to close properly, usually an error at shutdown. However, that it doesn't want to let active connections go is also a good thing. Always opens again properly upon restart of computer (using 'stop all' before closing, probably a good idea). Why is the bitrate so incredably small? Like i said I'm new to this.
