BitTyrant
BitTyrant is a new, modified version of the popular Azureus BitTorrent client that is optimized for faster download performance by up to 70% over regular versions.
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BitTyrant is a new, modified version of the popular Azureus BitTorrent client that is optimized to increases download speeds by up to 70% on public tracker sites!
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.
Q: How is BitTyrant different from existing BitTorrent clients? BitTyrant differs from existing clients in its selection of which peers to unchoke and send rates to unchoked peers. Suppose your upload capacity is 50 KBps. If you’ve unchoked 5 peers, existing clients will send each peer 10 KBps, independent of the rate each is sending to you. In contrast, BitTyrant will rank all peers by their receive / sent ratios, preferentially unchoking those peers with high ratios. For example, a peer sending data to you at 20 KBps and receiving data from you at 10 KBps will have a ratio of 2, and would be unchoked before unchoking someone uploading at 10 KBps (ratio 1). Further, BitTyrant dynamically adjusts its send rate, giving more data to peers that can and do upload quickly and reducing send rates to others. Q: Will BitTyrant work for cable / DSL users? Yes. BitTyrant’s intelligent unchoking and rate selection still improves performance for users with less capacity. All users, regardless of capacity, benefit from using BitTyrant. Q: Isn't BitTyrant just another leeching client? No. BitTyrant does not change the amount of data uploaded, just which peers receive that data. Specifically, peers which upload more to you get more of your bandwidth. When all peers use the BitTyrant client as released, performance improves for the entire swarm.
BitTyrant requires Java 1.5. If you're having problems getting things started, try updating your JVM. **Important: For BitTyrant to be most effective, it is crucial that you accurately set your upload capacity during configuration. For regular versions of Azureus click here.
RELATED GUIDES: What is BitTorrent? A Beginner's Guide - Easy, step-by-step guide for those wanting to learn more about what BitTorrent is and how it functions. Improving BitTorrent Download Speeds - How to make sure that you're getting the most from your connection speeds.
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