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Downloads:
14,594,510
- Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
July 31, 2007
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Publisher's description of BitTorrent 5.0.8
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 5.08 includes unspecified updates.
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Editor's review of BitTorrent 5.0.8
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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User reviews of BitTorrent 5.0.8
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 500 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.8
Pros: It's stable, it does what it says it does, but there are better programs.
Cons: Bit bloated. uTorrent does more and has a much smaller footprint (memory usage, HD usage, etc...)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BitTorrent 5.0.8
Pros: It allows you to continue working and surfing the net without a large decrease in internet speed.
Cons: It might not slow down the internet speed, but sometimes the program slows down the computer itself.
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Version: BitTorrent 5.0.8
Pros: its fast
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Version: BitTorrent 5.0.8
Pros: its ok
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