Topic: Someone made a bittorrent client just for me!

[idolminds]

BitMate

The aim of BitMate is to drastically improve the download speeds of peers on low-bandwidth connection (5 to 20 KB/sec), to make BitTorrent more effective in places where people might need it the most. If we believe the claims of the researchers, they have succeeded in making a difference.

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During the latest tests the researchers found that compared to traditional clients, the download speeds on low bandwith connections can receive up to a 70% boost with BitMate, while upload contributions may improve by up to 1000%.

“In our target conditions, Bitmate can almost double the download performance. At the same time, it performs at least as well as the traditional BitTorrent clients for high-bandwidth peers,” Saif noted.

The beauty of it all, is that other peers are not negatively affected by these improvements.

“BitMate enhances the performance of low-bandwidth nodes without cheating, circumventing the fairness policy of BitTorrent or adversely affecting the performance of other peers,” Saif told TorrentFreak.

I'm downloading now and will report back. I use uTorrent now but the downloads do end up taking a much longer time than a direct download. Part of that is it trying to upload data as well, but it never seems to "hold" a connection so the download just crawls. I'm hoping using this new client can help.

Its too bad uTorrent isn't open source so they based this one on Vuze. BitMate is 18MB vs uTorrents 400K. Having a low bandwidth-optimized torrent client that wont take 2 hours to download would be great.

[W7RE]

I can't believe you're still on dialup. I bitch non stop about my connection because I only get 200-250KB/sec on average, sometimes jumping as high as 500KB/sec on a good day.

In WoW I was consistently at 150-200ms.


I can't imagine being on dialup still...

[bullshark]

Yeah no kidding, I get annoyed when it takes longer than half a second to load a page these days.

[Ghandi]

Awesome! How is it?

[idolminds]

I havent had a chance to really give it a go. Last night I bought Infinity Blade for my ipod so Im going to be downloading that for a few days.