bittyrant.cs.washington.edu — Researchers from the computer science department at the University of Washington have released BitTyrant, a new BitTorrent client that is designed to improve download performance via strategic selection of peers and upload rates. The client is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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caffeineloverJan 4, 2007
You have a version of Java on your system that is incompatible with the version used to create this application. You probably have 1.4 or lower - this looks like it is 1.5.Download the latest JRE from java.com and install it. Should work then.
mookiexlJan 4, 2007
Yes, It's a bit selfish but IMO this is good for BT. Good uploaders will get fast downloads and idiots with up limited to 1kb/s get what they deserve too (nothing).Now add this function to utorrent or halite and i'm in.
rnscwas123Jan 5, 2007
Not true at all. I used to use ?Torrent. On my cable (7mbps/384kbps) connection I would normally max out my upload yet my downloads would rarely ever be able to exceed 150 KB/s, and that was with ports forwarded and everything optimized. Now that I've tried Bittyrant I don't think I'll ever go back to ?Torrent because my torrents can achieve a speed of 600KB/s while I only upload at around 20KB/s. This proves Bittyrant is effective for Cable and most likely DSL (with at least 384kbps upload I would guess).
pacobellFeb 23, 2007
You do realize that he wrote this in 2005, right? A lot has happened to Java since then. Perhaps you should take this into consideration before appealing to authority.
pacobellFeb 23, 2007
Gah, you need to read more than just the headlines. It does not abuse the _protocol_ at all. It just has a different peer selection algorithm. It still speaks bittorrent just like any other client out there.
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