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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Vuze 2.5.0.4
Pros: Very customizable. May take a little time configuring to your own settings but this is the fastest, safest and most reliable download client there is. Good connection. Doesn't use up much RAM memory (just leave in the background). Lots of plugins including 3D map, country flags and world map showing where your seeds are based. Simply the best.
Cons: Cannot preview media files until download is complete.
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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Vuze 2.3.0.4
"Good one but pushes you system too hard"
Pros: Azureus is a decent torrent client. No other client can beat it in handling magnet links. It connects to almost all peers possible. It has good speed in uploading.
Cons: It has problems connecting to the DHT network and this makes finding peers take long. But, this is nothing much.
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17 out of 25 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Vuze 2.3.0.4
"One of the bittorrent clients"
Pros: Its free.
Its open-source.
Downloads are the fastest among all BitTorrent clients.
Supports plugins.
Many clients base its interface directly off of Azureus.
Client provides a lot of information about the torrent that you probably will never use anyway...but its there.
Supports DHT.
Supports multiple tracker downloads.
Allows upload speed limiting.
Works on any Operating System that has Java installed.
Program autodetects updates and lets you download them while you are in the program.
Has built in torrent maker and allows you to host your own torrents.
Allows user to set priority on downloads.
Allows user to pick and choose which individual files within the torrent he or she desires to download. No one is forced to download all the files.
Program not only shows progress for each torrent but progress on each individual file within the torrent.
Cons: Program is a RESOURCE HOG! That is due to the program being built off Java as well as it being a BitTorrent client.
Program shuts down very slowly after downloading for a while.
Program takes an excessive amount of time to check completed downloads for consistency.
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6 out of 10 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Vuze 2.5.0.4
"The only BitTorrent program I'll ever use."
Pros: Extremely customizable, excellent options for giving priority to torrents that need attention, multiple levels of complexity for beginners to power users, manages huge numbers of torrents very well, tons of plugins for extra features, built-in UPnP so you don't have to manually forward ports, very well-written Wiki to receive help, connects to peers/seeds efficiently.
Cons: Uses a large amount of system resources (59MB on my system), very complex, slow to release UPnP mappings on exit.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Vuze 2.4.0.2
"The paragon of excellence of BT clients."
Pros: Very intelligent behaviour for both downloading and seeding. Can get full bandwidth in either direction and is most evenly distributed I seen for any client. Follows BT protocols precisely. Very powerful options including advanced ones to help techies get the most out of this client and a custom IP filter. Very nice and sleek GUI. Excellent hash checking and intelligent banning of IPs that send bad data. Built in tracker if you ever want to run a small one from home. Support for everything imaginable including peer caches and UDP trackers. Open source with endless plugins including stuffer to ban unfair clients like Bitcomet, Safepeer to ban bad IP ranges, Firefrog for a pseudo firefox interface and lots more. Resource usage not bad for a Java app. On top of it all, it'll run on any platform with Java installed.
Cons: May not be easiest for newbies to use due to all the options to manage. Must have a good running Java environment for this to work well. A few buggy plugins out there but are easy to remove without reinstalling the app.
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