Does everything right this time around

Pros: Excellent performance. Uses less than 3 MB of RAM at most usually. Very stable. Has most of the features of any other client within this footprint including some Easter Eggs(not bad ones, good ones like ability to use an ipfilter.dat file, eliminating need for products like Peer Guardian). Accurate stats reporting and good hash checks. Respects private flag. Most of all, it finally respects your hard disk using a good disk cache, unlike earlier versions. This makes the client go from near perfect with a fatal flaw to as close to perfection as any BT client has ever achieved.

Posted: 29-Nov-2006 03:37:30 PM

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.

Posted: 09-Jun-2006 01:47:22 AM