When comparing BitLord vs BitTorrent, the Slant community recommends BitLord for most people. In the question“What are the best Torrent clients?” BitLord is ranked 14th while BitTorrent is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose BitLord is:
You don't have to wait till the complete video is downloaded, but can start streaming and watching directly.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Direct streaming
You don't have to wait till the complete video is downloaded, but can start streaming and watching directly.
Pro Easy and friendly interface
It has an easy and friendly interface, so it is easy to learn how to use it.
Pro Search torrents inside the application
It has an embedded browser to search for torrents and download or stream directly from it.
Pro Lightweight
Pro Full-featured
BitTorrent covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching, Sequential downloading and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and web interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, web seeding, Embedded tracker, Super-seeding and proxy servers. And it auto-updates.
Pro Clean and easy to navigate user interface
A clean, visually-appealing interface that’s incredibly simple to navigate and cuts down on clutter by allowing unwanted elements to be hidden.
Pro Easy to make your own skin
Pro Additional features with the purchase of BitTorrent Pro
If you pay $19.99, you will get features such as removal of advertisements and added support for an internal HD media player.
Cons
Con Can feature malware
Con No Linux support
Only Windows and Mac are supported.
Con Not open-source/libre
Although free, BitLord do not publish the entire source code for their software.
Con Does not have many available options
It does not have many options for configurations on Torrent downloads, although it has the most used ones.
Con No tracker exchange
Tracker exchange functionality allows peers to exchange information about trackers of a given file. It is another way of ensuring that the file is downloaded from the optimal source. BitTorrent lacks this functionality.
Con Proprietary
No source code is publicly available. As such there's no way to independently check what security and privacy features are implemented and how as well as whether there's any malicious code or not.
Con Data Leech
Uses way too much background data, while task manager and bittorrent up on the foreground and Bittorrent showing a combined 300kb/s up/download avg on the torrents & TaskManager showed it was actually using an avg of 1000kb/s. There is no way it should be using this amount, and makes one wonder what it's up to.
