Whenever scarywater is down, tracker info will show something along the lines of 'Torrent not found in tracker' or a similar error message. In such situations, you can only leech a file if your BT client supports
DHT or a decentralized tracker.
The following is a list of features of the current top three BitTorrent clients in order of rank:
µTorrent supports:
Priotarization
DHT tracker/network
Selective DownloadingEncryption
Tracker
Remote Control
Super Seeding
RSS
UPnP Port Mapping
Besides that, it uses only 7000k memory.
Azureus supports:
All the above features plus it got all sorts of fancy features and makes you happy. However, it's one of the worst memory whores and will kill your CPU unless you're on a accelerated system. You also require Java. Recommended to anyone with a fast system and who cares more about perfection than CPU usage and do not find having Java installed a problem.
BitComet supports:
Most of the stuff above. What it doesn't support are:
Remote control
super seeding
Memory usage is 20000k to 30000k, although I am damn sure it was lower before. Undecided It apparently is the best choice client for slow connections like dial-up. There is a leech-only mode too...although that's not a nice feature of-course. You can preview incomplete files and for several other features, I like BitComet the best.
Apart from that:
The 4th position is held by XBT which is a very 'serious-looking' client ^^;; and doesn't support encryption, RSS unfortunately no DHT. So for scarywater's sake, DO NOT USE IT. ABC holds the 5th position and is a confusing but nice looking client which looks simple but is really bad for slow connections and definitely not recommended for non-advanced users of BT clients. It is similar to a client we all know, BitTornado, which holds the 6th position. BitTornado is one window per torrent and it doesn't support queing, best way to describe it will be the modern version of the classical first BitTorrent client, the BitTorrent. Both ABC and BitTornado do not have DHT backup network so not recommended till scarywater stops having issues.
The first time I ever used BitTorrent, I became a victim of the Artic torrent. That's the most horrible client ever. Looks horrible like a DOS window, non of the nine essential features that most of us require for smooth download. Plus the hashing isn't accurate and saving incomplete. Only recommended to users who do not download batch torrents, do not mind frustrating speeds in the order of 100bytes/sec. ~_~ and do not care about what they're doing and are also on a <500MHz system. So I'll recommend it to my grandma. Wink
I'll add more stuff as I come along them.
-Tsubasa
Most of the info taken and summarised from
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-client-comparison.
