Comments on: BitLet - The Online BitTorrent Downloader

By: netster007x

netster007x — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:56:01 +0000

Wuhu, I finally finished downloading the 4.7GB entire season 1 of 24! That was a very unhealthy torrent. Luckily, each episode is in mp4 format, so I just have to wait for Zune software to convert.

By: Tinhed

Tinhed — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:44:42 +0000

It was about time that something like this was introduced. I never got used to Opera and so was using utorrent in the meantime. This can be very useful for beginners. I remember tutoring atleast a dozen people on using bit torrent and most seem confused by the “2 step process”. Plus the firewall configuration. The only thing that lets me down is “JAVA”.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:27:07 +0000

I use Opera for my torrents. It’s pretty quick now, and very stable. You always have to keep something running when downloading a torrent. Why not have it be your browser? W/ Opera you can even hide it to the tray.

Hey Ryan, how often do you shut down your PC?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:02:54 +0000

I think I close my browser once every few days.

By: horus

horus — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:26:27 +0000

@Dkong Points 1 and 2 apply also to bittorrent clients like uTorrent (and, obviously, to Opera). Moreover, I know a lot of people who commonly leave the browser open even when they are not in front of their pc.

I can’t really understand what’s the difference between bitlet and another client when thinking about point 3.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:14:31 +0000

Yes, you can resume your torrents which is something I really wasn’t expecting it to do. The speeds on my test were pretty good, but I was downloading Linux distributions that were well seeded.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:45:42 +0000

@DKong: Ryan said the downloads can be resumed across browser sessions.

I think the big question is, how’s the speed on this thing? It probably isn’t as reliable as a desktop torrent downloader, or the one in Opera.

I’ve been downloading a 4.7GB torrent in Opera for the past several days (with occasional stops during the day, and usually stopping during the night). I’m at 61.5% right now. It’s a pretty unhealthy torrent, ranging from 0-3peers.

By: DKong

DKong — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:58:41 +0000

Personally, I don’t find that there’s much of a learning curve with uTorrent. If you want to get in depth with it, sure…but if you really want to you could just download uTorrent and not do anything with it and it’ll be fine.

The issues I have with this is: 1. you have to leave your browser open the entire time you’re downloading it
2. If you have to restart your browser or it crashes, I really don’t want to know what would happen with this thing
3. This probably isn’t a good option if you want to download something that would take multiple days.

Then again, if it’s something small that would only take like a half hour or something, this could be useful.