However, its reputation as piracy's go-to tool has caused a few VPNs to kibosh torrenting on their platforms. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( See how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).)īitTorrent is an easy way to move big files across the internet by sharing the burden among peers.
Feature-wise, it is one of the powerhouse, but it does take up lot of memory and system resources which doesn’t make it suitable for old machine. We have also covered it previously in great detail.
It has a great library of HD stuffs that you can download for free. Vuze is a powerful bittorent client cum media player that allows you to search, browse, download, share torrents and playback media files. This is another one that we’ve checked out in detail previously and it still stands out as a great tool to handle two of the most popular sharing mediums simultaneously and seamlessly. It’s open source and built on Limewire so you have access to Gnutella search as well as torrents. To add in a little bit of Gnutella P2P with our torrents, we’ve got Frostwire. It’s missing some of the fancier features of newer clients, but its speed and small footprint keep it a good option for many. While apparently no longer under active development, BitTornado is a very simple, lightweight client for CLI and GUI that can still get your files fast. A particular useful feature of KTorrent is that instead of manually prioritizing files as High, Medium, Low, you can put them in a simple list of the order you’d like them to download. In this case, there’s a small browser window inside the program and a search box to go with it. We’ve covered it in detail previously, as it’s a very capable client, and one of the few that include browseable web content. If you don’t need anything fancy, Transmission gets the job done.Īs the name implies, KTorrent is a Bittorrent client for KDE.
It’s reasonably fast and powerful, but it does not include some of the fancier features like web content browsing or support for non-torrent filesharing. As a baseline for comparison, we’ll start with Transmission, the default client in Ubuntu.
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