BitTorrent 4.22.4

• 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:

  September 22, 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 4.22.4

BitTorrent's software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games. Available in over 20 languages, it leverages our community of over 70 million users to securely deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there. Features include detailed graphs and stats on the health of digital media files provide you a safer, more controlled downloading experience, local peer discovery and automatic port mapping increase file transfer speed without the need to reconfigure routers or other hardware, and dynamic bandwidth management allows you to download content without disrupting Web browsing, e-mail, or other applications. By using software that was built by the same team that invented BitTorrent, you are guaranteed access to the latest, most efficient methods of getting digital content to your desktop.

Version 4.22.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Editor's review of BitTorrent 4.22.4

• 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.

User reviews of BitTorrent 4.22.4

• Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 500 votes
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• 5 stars

  9 out of 12 people found this review helpful

  Version: BitTorrent 4.22.4

  "Nice, plain, and basic."

  by Africanjamaicanyouth on September 23, 2006

  Pros: It doesnt uses much cpu which is good for old computer. Easy ro use!

  Cons: It should give people a list of torrent sites that we can know where to find files at.

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• 1 stars

  Version: BitTorrent 4.22.4

  "Complete waste of time"

  by RavnFan on September 24, 2006

  Pros: Easy to uninstall

  Cons: Slow, worthless

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• 5 stars

  5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

  Version: BitTorrent 4.22.4

  "Great!"

  by greenbunny45 on September 23, 2006

  Pros: * I love the tray icon with the progress. It shows only the important and simple stuff, like the progress, so its easier to see how much longer it should take than looking through the complicated program itself.

  *Its very powerful (at least I think it is)

  *Its simple and easy to use (I'm 14 years old, and I still figured out how to use it in a few minutes, although I am one of the more computer competent teenagers). There is alot of complicated things in it though. But it is all optional, and you can download a file fine without having to go into that stuff.

  Cons: *Kinda slow. I'm kind of new to this program, so maybe its because of the amount of peers and seeds (whatever those are - that's how much of a noob I am), because if you were using a normal download manager, like Firefox's, it would go alot faster. Its still fast enough.

  *Basically all its used for is to illegaly download stuff. I understand that there are many legal downloads out there, but if you search on, lets say, Torrentspy.com, you can find ripped movies from dvds, etc. BitTorrent itself is fine, but the whole idea of torrent files are, unfortunatly, missused.

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• 4 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: BitTorrent 4.22.4

  "A bit harder to use then Limewire but overall is a very good program."

  by KCRMYZ on October 2, 2006

  Pros: Lots of sources if you know what your looking for.

  Easy to use on most part.

  Between limewire and this are one of the top used P2P program clients

  Cons: If unexperienced, finding sources and/or files are hard to obtain.

  Files sometimes contain viruses and are hard to detect.

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• 3 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: BitTorrent 4.22.4

  "it`s great"

  by kitty_sanrio on September 30, 2006

  Pros: that i can get all complete tv series easier that another programs

  Cons: it`s really slow

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