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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
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A selfish
BitTorrent client that improves performance.
I must quote the site here as I have not
used it and have no opinion, but it looks interesting.
BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is
optimized for fast download performance. BitTyrant is...
* Fast – During evaluation testing
on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an
average 70% download performance increase when compared to the
existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing
more than three times as quickly.
* Fair – BitTorrent was designed
with incentives in mind: if a user is downloading at 30 KBps, they
should upload at 30 KBps. However, due to the unique workload
properties of many real-world swarms, this is not always enforced.
BitTyrant is designed to make efficient use of your scarce upload
bandwidth, rewarding those users whose upload allocations are fair
and only allocating excess capacity to other users.
* Familiar – BitTyrant is based on
modifications to Azureus 2.5, currently the most popular BitTorrent
client. All of our changes are under the hood. You’ll find
the GUI identical to Azureus, with optional additions to display
statistics relevant to BitTyrant’s operation. |