CyberNotes: Cross-Platform BitTorrent Solutions

Jun 03

CyberNotes: Cross-Platform BitTorrent Solutions

Time Saving Tuesday

Windows Win; Mac Mac; Linux Linux
If you have ever switched to a new operating system you know how tricky it can be to find certain applications to replace the ones that you had. That’s why today we wanted to point out five excellent BitTorrent solutions that each run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. That way if you ever do decide to switch operating systems you’ll not only know which BitTorrent downloaded to grab, but you’ll also be familiar with it already.

–Deluge (Homepage)–

This is the most full-featured cross-platform BitTorrent client that you’ll come across. Much like Firefox it benefits from being an extensible application via plug-ins, which over a dozen of are included out-of-the-box. Deluge includes a plug-in for a web user interface so that you can remotely view and manage your BitTorrent downloads.

Web UI
Ability to select files from a torrent before beginning the download
BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
Mainline DHT
Local Peer Discovery (aka LSD)
FAST protocol extension
µTorrent Peer Exchange
UPnP and NAT-PMP
Proxy support
Web seed
Private Torrents
Global and per-torrent speed limits
Configurable bandwidth scheduler
Password protection
RSS

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Thanks for the tip Curtiss!

–Azureus (Homepage)–

At one point this was my favorite BitTorrent client, but it has transformed itself into a rather bloated application. The only thing that I really like about it is that it doesn’t render my network useless while downloading things. With some of the other clients no matter what limitations I place on them they continue to hog all of the network resources available.

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