BitTorrent for Windows 6.3

3.8 out of 5 stars 3.8 (436 votes)

(October 22, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Open Source / 181,417 downloads

BitTorrent is a protocol for distributing files. It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate seamlessly with the Web. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load.

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    shantanu

    Reviewing 6.1.2 (Nov 13, 2008)

    "Feature creep" ... I agree.

    The license says "Open Source" ... kinda misleading ... the source is available till version 5.

    But we all know that this is basically uTorrent with a different default toolbar ?

  2. 2 out of 5 stars
    bigmama

    Reviewing 6.1.2 (Nov 12, 2008)

    whats the diff between this and ?torrent?

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    Wardev1

    Reviewing 6.1 (Sep 9, 2008)

    Regular bit-torrent.. it's standard stuff... KISS, keep it simple stupid. Don't add stuff where it's not needed. Feature creep is all well and good if it doesn't slow down the program, and actually enhances it's usability in some important way.

    I really liked azureus before they got bought out (or sold out) and became "vuze", even if it was a bit bloated I liked Azureus's interface.

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    Papa Lazarou

    Reviewing 6.0.3 (Mar 18, 2008)

    I rolled back to 6.02 . Vesion 6.03 puts something in the temp folder that previous versions didn't causing endless pop-ups from Online Armor asking if I wanted to continue , no matter how many times I said yes it was there again on program launch ,[ in the temp folder but with a different number] 6.02 doesn't do this.

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    LRN

    Reviewing 6.0.3 (Mar 3, 2008)

    Guys, you don't get it. This IS uTorrent. Let me repeat it: Bittorrent v6.x = uTorrent. Different name, same application. Same source code.

    As for software, it is decent. Though it may have a few problems in unusual environments. And featureset is not very large. If you need small%fast (fast overral work, not the downloading speed) - uTorrent/BitTorrent v6.x is your choice.

    Azureus has more features, and is less error-prone (and even if it has errors, you usually can fix it by yourself). But Azureus is also a bit slow (again, i don't mean downloading speed) and consumes a fair chunk of memory.

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