- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: March 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 4,151,497
- Downloads last week: 413
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 49 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 49 votes
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Torrent Swapper
Pros: This could be so much better. A decent interlace and ready installed features like global mapping of seeders/leechers (for some reason they don't think the far east exists!). Can view what other users are downloading. Easy to use.
Cons: I don't recommend this with Vista. Every time I downloaded something it kept freezing after about 5 minutes. It did a few other strange things to my system and I concluded there is a bug in it or worse still. Had to uninstall and do a system restore. Be warned! This application needs to be improved before it's a serious contender to Azureus. The taskbar shortcut is a joke.
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20 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Version: Torrent Swapper
Pros: bittorrent is the best p2p protocol EVER, that goes without a doubt. it used to be a never ending quest to find new files to download, but now there are tons of good sites that lists torrent downloads, but this client has made life even simpler that you can look at what other users are downloading and sharing and there is also a recomendation mechanism that allows you to rate the downloads, i think everybody should start using this client and make sure to vote on the downloads so i won't download another fake 700mb movie ever again :P
Cons: i liked it all
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Torrent Swapper
"Great new idea - Recomendations"
Pros: Simple interface that does job nice. For every torrent you download you may see what other peers are downloading and how many of them.
Cons: There's no grouping of downloads. Sorting columns in display sometimes stuck.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Torrent Swapper
Cons: Have to swap between searching and downloading
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13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: Torrent Swapper
"the stumbledupon bittorrent client"
Pros: a very novel idea of combining user recomendation with a p2p client (has it been done before?) which enabled you to find files that other users recommend.
as far as a bittorrent client goes, this one has all the standart features, and low CPU consumption. 5 stars overall!
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