Windows help with bitTorrent clients plz

i've been trying to get into bit torrent but i've been having some difficulties...

first, someone reccomended !burst and abc. I tried each one individually and they gave me the same error: when i tried to install, running the .exe file opened a window that said "extended memory manager already installed" and some driver wasn't installed...

then, someone reccomended i try torrentstorm, which installed just fine, but when i tried to download (using torrent files from novatina.com, which i'm told is a good source) i got lots of "bad info. from tracker" "scrape invalid" etc...some i would just be constantly be "connecting," although i actually started downloading a file once, but after a few hours the rate never exceeded .1 kb/s even though i'm running a cable connection and there were 5 or 6 seeders for that file...

can anyone reccomended me a good client or some advice on how to fix the above problems to use these clients.

PS: i uninstalled each before trying the others and no, i don't have a firewall.

 

I personally use Azureus. It is full of features and easily customisable.

 

Azureus here!!

just make sure that your firewall is set to allow outgoing/incoming on ports 6881-6889

 

I third Azureus

 

ABC works fine - 4662-4669, as well as opening them in my router too.

I suspect your problem is deeper routed than just installing a bit torrent client.

 

bit comet

 

Azureus is the king of clients. The only downside is its a resouce hog, and really benefits from an occasional reboot.

Rufus is another good one that people don't really know too much about. It has a lot of the features of Azureus. Rufus is basically an updated version of the G3 client with the majority of the bugs removed. Definitely worth a look.

 

bit comet over here

 

Azureus is a memory hog, use BitTornado... or DC++ (not bittorrent).. bittorrent is dieing with loki torrent and suprnova shutting down.

 

Where is your factual evidence for that?
BT isn't dying at all, it was never intended to be used to share copyrighted files, so maybe illegal P2P filesharing has gone down a little since the shutdown of suprnova and lokitorrent. BT is just as useful and widely used as ever, you just have to know where to look to find your torrents .

 

And fourthed.

It is a huge mem hog, but I've found that if you turn off Disk Caching (or whatever it's called) it helps a ton. But you don't want to be running torrent downloads when gaming anyways

I'm still semi-tempted to try out exeem but I think it has a lot of adware in it

But last I knew, bittorrent traffic was some one third of ALL internet traffic... not exactly dying.

 

Yeah the only problem with Azureus is it's a memory hog... mostly I find becuase it uses java to be cross platform capable.

Bit Comet unfortunately was (is) unsecure becuase it shares its tracker with others. Meaning if your using a secure torrent site it will share those secure torrent lists with others and then you get nabbed.

 

Being a n00b to all things BT, I installed exeem last night. No adware (according to AdAware), it's apparently paid for with the ads. Might try some of these others though.

 

BiTTornado........nice an simple........works very well with a well sourced Torrent file

 

i use ABC.. tried to get azereus working but didnt want to for some unknown reason..

 

Tried lots, hated Azereus, loved Bit-tornado

I found Azereus to be a bit of a RAM hog, whilst Tornado was simple and clean allows download priority, bandwidth limiting etc.

 

If you're finding Azureus to be a RAM hog make sure you have the latest Java installed. Mine's fine now, doesn't hog at all.

Back to the question though, which ISP are you with? They might have a transparent proxy that's giving you grief?

You can check it here:

http://proxyjudge.org/

 

personally i find the basic bit-torrent client to be more than adequate for what i need (i .use the nix version, and the curses interface, its lean and mean)

as for your speed, are you behind a router? i see a *LOT* of people behind routers having massive issues getting good speed with BitTorrent. the solution is dead easy. (at least, with the standard BitTorrent client). just forward ports 6881-6889 TCP to your machien in the router, and watch your speeds go up like a rocket. if you need to use port triggering, iirc the tracker port is outbound on 6969 TCP.