Transmission vs uTorrent

[sallam]

Greetings

Ubuntu 11.04 comes with Transmission version 2.13, although 2.22 is the current version. I didn't know that uTorrent is available for Linux, so I'm thinking of installing it. Did anyone try it on ubuntu? which one is faster?

[3 frags left]

Umm, uTorrent is available only in browser form. You need to execute a script via command line to make it open. It's not very good, and pretty slow, actually.

My torrent client of choice is Transmission (the best I have use so far), but you may try Deluge or Azureus as well. YMMV.

[CVGH]

Transmission is lite and runs very fast here. Does everything I need to grab torrents!!

[dniMretsaM]

The Linux version of uTorrent is is only CLI/WUI so you probably don't want it. Personally, I use qBittorrent and I love it. I've tried Transmission and Deluge but qBittorrent is better IMHO.

[cymbaline42]

I prefer Tixati, mainly for the ability to import multiple blocklists and set them up to update automatically at regular intervals.

[ajgreeny]

I have used ktorrent in the past when I used KDE, and that had so many options that it was a bit baffling, just like most other KDE apps seem to be now that I'm a confirmed gnome lover (not unity, - yet!).

I find transmission to be very fast downloading, and has all the customisation options I need; after all, it is really only a means to d/l fast for most of us, and if transmission does that, why bother with anything else?

[Cfhs_1]

I'm also a long time transmission user. It has always worked perfectly for me, and comes included with ubuntu so I have never even considered looking for another torrent application. Transmission seems to be the best there is, and I also think it's more stable compared to μtorrent on windows. :popcorn:

[Opie Wick]

I first used Transmission on Mac OS X and was ecstatic to find it installed out of the box in the first version of Ubuntu that I used (I think 8.04 maybe). Like it has been said above, Transmission has a nice gui and preferences/settings that are powerful enough for almost every user.

[robgraves]

i like qBitTorrent, i use it all the time

[jtarin]

i like qBitTorrent, i use it all the time
You should only use it when your on your computer.:p

[DogMatix]

I use Transmission on Ubuntu and Mac OS X. I used to use Opera's bit torrent client but Transmission is in a different league.

[firefox834]

I find that U Torrent through Windows 7 is best....too much triuble using LInux based

[werty2010]

You should only use it when your on your computer.:p

as a newbie i have to ask:
why? i mean, what is the difference from being away from your computer?

[cgroza]

I am with Deluge all the way. But I think uTorrent works with one. I remember running it once on Hardy Heron.

[henz103]

uTorrent, Transmission and Deluge are all great BitTorrent clients, choosing which one is the best will be subjective.

[IWantFroyo]

you should only use it when your on your computer.:p

+1

[jtarin]

as a newbie i have to ask:
why? i mean, what is the difference from being away from your computer?You don't know sarcasm when you trip over it.:P

[duleep]

is there possible upload speed limit less than 5KiB for in transmission? if not what torrent client can limit less than 5KiB upload speed

[jtarin]

is there possible upload speed limit less than 5KiB for in transmission? if not what torrent client can limit less than 5KiB upload speed

Most torrent clients can be set to "0".Transmission is no exceptionn.

[fractalman]

I use 'Deluge' its the closest one i found to the Bittorrent client i used in *******. much prefer it to transmission :-)

[tushar maroo]

I prefer Transmission bittorrent client.it have a nice gui and customised controls.

[philinux]

Moved to Recurring Discussions.

[ratcheer]

I don't know about BitTorrent on Ubuntu, but I am having much better luck with Transmission on Ubuntu than I am with BitTorrent on Windows XP. I cannot get BitTorrent to download anything.

Tim

[dniMretsaM]

IMO the best BiTorrent clients are uTorrent (not the Linux version yet), qBittorrent, and Deluge (I have problems with it though. If you choose from one of those, you'll be pretty well off.

[ratcheer]

I don't know about BitTorrent on Ubuntu, but I am having much better luck with Transmission on Ubuntu than I am with BitTorrent on Windows XP. I cannot get BitTorrent to download anything.


I finally managed to get BitTorrent working on Win XP, not that anybody cares. It was an XP Internet Options setting buried deep in the dialogs, something about allowing downloads across domains. It took me two days of web searching to find it.

Tim

[screaminj3sus]

I am fine with transmission as its the default. I do my major torrenting on my windows machine that runs utorrent anyway.

If you really like utorrent deluge is the best linux alternative.

[Kafubie]

I never really torrent things. But when I periodically do, it's on Transmission.

Very, very, intuitive.

[Lucradia]

If uTorrent were in Linux form, it'd be exactly like Deluge, so I already have what I like.

[Randymanme]

I have used ktorrent in the past when I used KDE, and that had so many options that it was a bit baffling, just like most other KDE apps seem to be now that I'm a confirmed gnome lover (not unity, - yet!).

I find transmission to be very fast downloading, and has all the customisation options I need; after all, it is really only a means to d/l fast for most of us, and if transmission does that, why bother with anything else?


First off, I think that I should admit that my understanding of the mechanics of bittorrent technology is a little hazy. I've read about, but I just don't seem able to readily grasp what all happens during the bittorrent process. It's apparently something I would never have dreamed up.

Plus, I only have a foggy notion of the role(s) that hardware and resources play on the client-side of how efficiently one can use the bittorrent process.

Having said all that, my personal experience is that when I discovered bittorrent, Transmission was already on my os (Mint) by default, so that's what I used. At some point, a torrent site recommended that I use Vuze and I did. But I accidentally found that Transmission consistently provided more seeds and faster download speeds than Vuze.

The Vuze installer tests your connection and recommends what it claims to be your ideal download rate (which I've found to be less than what my computers have been capable of when using other bitttorrent clients). So I began opening torrents with both and then deciding on the one that seemed to me to be the more effecient.

Then I found out about Deluge. Deluge seemed to be better than Vuze or Transmission. But, ultimately, I found that sometimes Transmission out-performs Deluge; so I always test before choosing.

More and more, I've found using Windows natively to be much more efficient (for me) than trying to use W.I.N.E.. Windows seems to promote uTorrent. It would seem to me that with the proliferation of Windows, uTorrent would be really fast and with very large swarms. But (in my experience) not so. Maybe bittorrent popularity is a demographic kind of thing and that the Windows crowd just isn't much into it. I find uTorrent slow and unreliable. I've opened torrent files with uTorrent and didn't get any seed connections -- ever.

Deluge looks the me to have the ability to connect it's leechers to other client swarms and has an app that monitors what leecher is leeching from which ever other clients/swarms and show the individual leecher which clients/swarms they are getting parts from! Perhaps that's why the installation of Deluge drags in so many other dependencies that other bittorrent clients don't, afaik.

One day, while using Deluge and having accidentally found its monitoring app, I noticed that Ktorrent had 200 seeds in its swarm. So I quickly downloaded and installed Ktorrent, opened the torrent file with it, and for the first time ever, found myself leeching from over 100 seeds at one time.

Since I haven't become proficient at installing tar balls (there's been a couple of times when I've tried and succeeded by accident), I haven't been able to install Ktorrent on Windows. uTorrent isn't available for Linux, afaik, except as an alpha package.

For an older or low resource computer, I'd recommend Transmission -- it's cross-platform and comes in bittorrent-qt (as Transmission-qt, if you prefer). For every one else, Deluge, by all means; if only to show you which clients to use for your instant purpuses (and then in conjunction with some other).

Cheers

[Lucradia]

Just wondering, is there an open-source GUI Torrent program for Windows? uTorrent recently went downhill and added Paid-only features.

[Randymanme]

http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/04/16/deluge-get-a-powerful-yet-user-friendly-torrent-client/
Deluge is a full-featured open source bittorrent client that runs on multiple platforms. It is designed to be low on system resources utilization while providing powerful features and a user friendly experience.