Wired News has cast its beady eye over stand alone clients and come up with the best five.

Do you use any of them?

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I use BitComet at the moment, but going on the reviews I might give µTorrent a go later on!

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I use utorrent, although for a long time i used Azurus (until i heard about utorrent)
As the review says, its a tiny tiny file, but does lots of good things - multiple trackers being something i use quite often. Also, I dont know if the different clients have an effect on the speed of the downloads, but for me, utorrent *seems* to be faster.

Whats the policy regarding torrents on this site, Will? Are we allowed to discuss them? I dont download music or films, but i do grab loads of TV programmes i've either missed, or that havent been shown in the UK yet. At the moment im working my way through a couple of shows that are just being aired in America - 'Studio 60 on the sunset strip' - written/produced by the bloke who did 'The West Wing', and 'Ugly Betty' about a girl who goes to work for a fashion Publishers

Also, I was watching this beauty last night - its fantastic. He puts the 'T' into mo-T-vation :)

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I use utorrent too. Azeureus has a nice interface, but too demanding on my computer. Utorrent is nice, simple and bloat free.

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I don't understand all the torrent jargon about http trackers and stuff but even a novice like me can use µTorrent.

when I first downloaded it though it was set to upload more than download which caught me out a bit.

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Although you only download TV programmes you can't get in this country and so therefore feel that this different to downloading music and movies you are breaking the same copyright laws.

I do download all my music from file sharing networks.

The only reason I don't download movies and stuff is simply my home connection is too slow.

Do you do what? I don't feel any guilt about it either....I don't know why not.

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I use bitlord to download torrents.

I consider music downloads as 'research' since I am a poor student.

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Oh yes, i realise that its illegal, its just that the American tv studios dont seem to be trying to take everyone to court in the same why that the Film & Music industries are.

British TV shows from uknova may be technically illegal, but as i pay my licence fee, i would argue that its just the same as lending/borrowing a video recording to/from one of my mates. its also interesting that the BBC were trialing torrents as a way to distribute previously aired shows

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I'm a BitTornado user myself, I tried Azureus but it was way slow... BitTornado fits the bill (most importantly bandwidth-limiting so I can actually work at the same time).

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I use Bitlord and it suits me fine! It's simple and not too big, I can adjust my upload rate to download my weekly Lost fix and then increase it afterwards to reseed it!
To be honest though, I'm not terribly au fait with the different clients and which ones do what and why! uTorrent looks pretty interesting though so I may give that a try!

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