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"Can only speak from personal experience, but several years ago I tried several clients, (eg the one built in Opera, Azureus, Bitcomet, uTorrent and one or two others that I can't remember).
Now upload/download speed quickly became a non issue for me, as none of these clients appeared to me to be significantly faster or slower than the others. It is impossible to be sure as there are so many other factors (eg the speed of your connection, how many seeds are available and what connection they have and where they are based etc), so it is not accurate to simply repeat a download using a different client to see if it is faster or slower.
However what was obvious was there was quite a difference in speed of use between the clients. Some of them were extremely sluggish and memory hogs (possibly with memory leaks) which affected use, so this quickly became my main concern.
So, now if I need to use a client, I just use uTorrent, which is small,fast and efficient and I like the user interface.
I remember reading about BitTryant a year or two back, but not much since. The sceptic in me would say that if it really was 70% faster than the rest in real-life situations, then I would expect it to have had a bigger effect. (So either the technology has migrated to other clients since then, or else it was yet another theoretical improvement which didn't translate to real-life.)
All IMHO."
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