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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.

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Frustrated that your BitTorrent downloads aren't completing fast enough? BitTyrant is a new BitTorent client (based on Azureus 2.5) that claims to increase download performance by as much as 70%.

How does it work? Simple. When you start a download you start downloading a file, BitTyrant scans the upload speeds of other users and gives preference to those with higher upload speeds. Not only will you download the file faster by downloading from users with speedier uploads, but BitTyrant will reward users with faster upload rates by increasing your send rate to that user.

Real world example: You're downloading a file and are connected to a couple dozen users. Most of them are uploading at a rate of around 10 to 20 KBps. A few are uploading at 30 KBps or above. Those few are the ones that BitTyrant will give priority.

At first glance, this sounds like a win-win situation. You get your downloads faster, as do the users you're downloading from. But the problem is that this high-speed love-fest is cutting off users with slower connections. They were having a hard enough time downloading their files, and here you come with your high and mighty BitTyrant client just to ignore their pleas for peers to download from. The more users begin using clients like BiTyrant, the slower downloads will become for users with slower connections.

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Originally posted by Bart

At first glance, this sounds like a win-win situation. You get your downloads faster, as do the users you're downloading from. But the problem is that this high-speed love-fest is cutting off users with slower connections. They were having a hard enough time downloading their files, and here you come with your high and mighty BitTyrant client just to ignore their pleas for peers to download from. The more users begin using clients like BiTyrant, the slower downloads will become for users with slower connections.

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Originally posted by John
I'll stick to utorrent.

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Originally posted by John
I'll stick to utorrent.

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