BitTorrent
I last checked out BitTorrent a year ago. It looked like an interesting concept, and the speeds were quite reasonable. However, the client was no more than a new download window for each file within Internet Explorer. Resuming long downloads after a system restart was not convenient and the available files seemed to be limited to current TV episodes only. Managing individual downloads was such a pain that I moved on to Kazaa Lite.
Now, it seems this kid is all grown up. I’m using TorrentStorm (a windows based client). Finally I can get a list of all active and inactive torrents in a single download window, with combined speed statistics. Adding new torrents is as simple as clicking on a hyperlink in Internet Explorer.
As for torrents themselves, I get them off SuprNova and TorrentReactor. Appz, games, movies, albums and comics. If it’s something new and popular, you’ll find it here, and download speeds will be excellent.
The TorrentStorm client does need improvement. It should allow adding multiple tracker URLs to the same torrent and switch between them if a tracker goes down. It should allow better file management for downloads in progress and downloads that have been completed… something as simple as renamed files will do. Shared file locking seems to be a problem in Windows XP too.
If someone can integrate a search function within the client, and extract a categorized list of torrents from multiple servers… that would be a killer feature.
Posted on March 3rd, 2004 under P2P • 
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