BitTorrent 4.20.4

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 500 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  14,594,510

• Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  July 17, 2006

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version BitTorrent 6.0.1 build 7859 BitTorrent 6.0 BitTorrent 5.0.8 BitTorrent 5.0.7 BitTorrent 5.0.6 BitTorrent 4.26 BitTorrent 5.0.5 BitTorrent 4.22.4 BitTorrent 4.26 BitTorrent 4.22.4 BitTorrent 4.20.9 BitTorrent 4.20.7 BitTorrent 4.20.4 BitTorrent 4.20.1 BitTorrent 4.4.1 BitTorrent 4.0.1 BitTorrent 3.4.2 BitTorrent 3.3 BitTorrent 3.2.1

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Publisher's description of BitTorrent 4.20.4

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) client designed to efficiently manage the downloading of large, high-quality, digital files such as video, music, and games. The client is used to search the Internet for legal torrent files, which can then be quickly downloaded to a user's machine. As files become more popular, the speed in which they can be downloaded increases through the use of a central tracker and peers. This technology saves time over traditional methods, while maintaining the integrity of the file.

Version 4.20.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Editor's review of BitTorrent 4.20.4

• 5.0 stars

• "A shot of uTorrent for BT"

BitTorrent hadn't seen a major update in about two years, but that was before it bought out uTorrent. Now, adopting its new sibling's interface has completely reinvigorated the original BitTorrent client.

Previously, BT had lacked features that other torrent innovators had spent time testing and investing in. Now, in one fell swoop, BT has access to everything it lacked. You can pick which files in a torrent you want to download, throttle your Internet connection to suit your whims, muck about with the Web UI and, basically, do everything that uTorrent can do.

There's an RSS tracker and search bar, just like in uTorrent, but there's where we encounter one key difference. Where uTorrent's search takes you to the MiniNova torrent site, BitTorrent's goes to BitTorrent.com, a pay-for-most-content site. There's also a menu bar item in the BitTorrent client called Get Stuff, with links to Movies, TV, Music, and Games at the BitTorrent content site.

Without a doubt, BitTorrent has taken drastic steps to reverse course and unsink its sinking ship. Although BT still eats more memory than its new sibling, it's hogging significantly less than before. The install file reflects the new code, shrinking from nearly 6MB for version 5 to less than 1MB for version 6.

BT also comes with a small piece of software called DNA. The BT site calls it protocol for "Delivery Network Acceleration," but beyond a nebulous description, it's hard to tell what exactly it does.

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  Version: BitTorrent 4.20.4

  "Not many options for the standard prog."

  by running4jesus on August 5, 2006

  Pros: The pros? It works!

  Cons: Very basic design. Get BitComet to have real management capabilities over downloads. This doesn't give upload to download ratios to remind you to seed or internal searching, etc.

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