TopBT on Vuze - A Topology-Aware BitTorrent Client | FileShareFreakIn an article published back in October, we reported about a new technology for BitTorrent called TopBT. TopBT was originally built on LH-ABC, an open-source BitTorrent client - but it has been vastly improved into a new version of Vuze. Unlike most currently existing popular BitTorrent clients such as Vuze, BitTorrent™, and µTorrent, the unique feature of TopBT is, it actively discovers its network proximity to its connected peers. It does so through actively sending packets to those peers, and inspecting their responses. Besides the topology-awareness, TopBT also considers network transmission rates to its peers, so that it can download fast. Not only that, but TopBT also saves unnecessary BitTorrent traffic that clogs up the Internet, which is great for those who are bandwidth-capped by their ISP. But is TopBT faster than µTorrent? In our tests: Yes.
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