Recommendation of a Torrent client for XP

[jaem]

Hey all,

I'm looking for a good torrent client for my sister on XP. She's not really a techie, and will only be downloading straight from one site, so I'd prefer something like the standard Ubuntu bittorrent client - straightforward, with no bells and whistles - just open and download. My only other requirement is that the download site is free of sketchy ads. (I know a lot of torrent sites are quite questionable, and I don't really want to send her to one of those).

Thanks,

Jeff

[jken146]

utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/) is a nice lightweight client for Windows. As for torrent tracker sites, that really depends on what she wants to download. A search on isohunt (http://isohunt.com/) yields lots of results for most things.

[ubuntu27]

Like the above poster said µTorren (http://www.utorrent.com/) is a nice bittorrent client that has no bells and whistles. It is lightweigh and fast.

http://www.utorrent.com/

[jaem]

Thanks. I'll look into that.

[myusername]

utorrent is the best... It has a built in hash checker... Also a good place for torrent files is mininova.org and thepiratebay.org

I don't use isohunt because you can't check for comments on how good the file is... So stick with MN and TPB

[r76]

I asked this question (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=573920&highlight=bittorrent) recently and the answers were in favour of utorrent, I've been using it since - it's fast, simple to use and doesn't slow my system up. +1 for utorrent :)

If you're avoiding any dodgy ads, then as one person pointed out you could settle for the official bittorent client (http://www.bittorrent.com/), but I didn't see any on the utorrent site either.

[rickyjones]

Another vote for utorrent.

-Richard

[sayakb]

Try FlashGet... A torrent client + excellent download manager..

[TheLions]

+1 for Azureus

[myusername]

I don't like azureus its too much of a system hog... That and I think it has too many useless features

[darksidedude]

FROSTWIRE

open source limewire /bittorrent client

did i mention its open source?

[bhavi]

Frostwire and utorrent is great..

[TheLions]

I don't like azureus its too much of a system hog... That and I think it has too many useless features

but it's cross-platform, simple and uses 100% of internet bandwidth ...

BitLord is great for leeching but contains spyware

[ubuntu27]

Guys, the OP wants a torrent client that is lightweight or simple a torrent that does its work without the "bells and whistles"
So Azureuz is out of the question.

[uberlube]

Lightweight= utorrent, abctorrent

Heavyweight= Azureuz (Fastest downloads ive had)

Torrentsite= BTJUNKIE- the best

[solitaire]

I've used Ktorrent I'm quite happy with it.

used Utorrent on windows it was good.

Azureuz was ok, only ever used it on Windows.