Excellent, nice to know I'm prioritizing my uploads to those who give the most in return. If only I could use it on every tracker (it's not an approved client in a few places so I have to fire up azureus for those occasions).

I'm pretty happy with Azureus, but I decided to give this a try. I was in the middle of downloading a torrent at around 90-120K/sec in Azureus, so I cancelled the download and resumed it in BitTyrant. I gave BitTyrant about half an hour to "get going", and the result was that it downloaded at about 25-60K/sec, but it uploaded faster than Azureus had been. That's not quite what I expected!

This particular torrent was fairly well seeded - about a 1:1 seeder:downloader ratio. I assume BitTyrant is geared more towards new torrents that don't have so many seeders. Also, they admit that the results on cable modems like mine will not be as good as what is advertised (I don't know what kind of connection their numbers are based on). So maybe that's why the results were so underwhelming. However, I would expect something that's supposed to be so geared for download speeds to be at least as good as "normal" clients in "normal" circumstances. Bummer.

BitTyrant had some trouble using UPnP. I don't know why, since Azureus works just fine and BitTyrant is based on the same core. Eventually BitTyrant did start working, but only after a few attempts and a relaunch. Could've been a fluke, I guess.

After a while downloading with BitTyrant and seeing no positive results, I went back to Azureus. It went back to the 90-120K/sec range within 10 minutes or so. So the speeds were NOT just a fluke.

I've decided not to make this a full-fledged rated review since I have not yet tested it with a wide variety of torrents (I don't download torrents all that much, so it might be a while before I have the opportunity to test it on a non-well-seeded torrent). I'll keep it around for testing in the future, but plain ol' Azureus is still my go-to client when I need advanced features. (Transmission is great when no features are needed and you know how to manually configure your router/firewall.)

From what I've seen so far, I do feel comfortable saying that it is NOT hands-down better than Azureus. But it still might be better in some circumstances.

We definitely have a lot of "fluff over stuff" folks rating this application poorly for whatever reason. Some people prefer a full featured client over some toy that does little more than download torrents when you plug in a tracker address. There is definitely a place for that, and there is a place for more. Currently none of the suggestions offered here come near Azureus/BitTyrant in features.

Further, to post suggestions to applications with normal download algorithms in an area for a specialised client only further reveals your ignorance.

Fortunately, while BitTyrant may not be as "pretty" as some of these other gutless clients, it is very easy to use. Don't let the "Delicious Crowd" fool you.

I have tried many Mac clients and only a few are accepted on Private trackers at the moment, out of all of them I have found the btpd-front application to be the best, available here : http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23255

it is a pleasure to use compared to the Azureus bloatware.

this kinda bugs me, my connection is adsl that means BY DESIGN it downloads faster than it uploads this just capitalizes on the fact