December 04, 2009 by sharky
Not too many BitTorrent clients are able to compete with uTorrent & Vuze, but if total control over your torrent transfers is a must, then Tixati is definitely something worth checking out. This new client offers an absurd array of advanced features; including trackerless torrent support, magnet links, and robust flexibility.
Tixati Features:
- • Detailed views of all aspects of the torrent swarm, including peers, pieces, files, and trackers.
- • Low memory usage.
- • Support for "magnet links", so no need to download .torrent files if a simple magnet-link is available.
- • Super-efficient peer choking/unchoking algorithms ensure the fastest downloads.
- • Peer connection encryption for added security, as well as IPv6 support.
- • Full DHT (Distributed Hash Table) and PEX implementation for trackerless torrents as well as for torrents with an announce, including detailed traffic graphs and customizable event logging.
- • Advanced bandwidth charting of overall traffic and per-transfer traffic, with separate classification of protocol and file bytes, and with separate classification of outbound traffic for trading and seeding.
- • Highly flexible bandwidth throttling, including trading/seeding proportion adjustment and adjustable priority for individual transfers and peers.
- • Bitfield graphs that show the completeness of all downloaded files, what pieces other peers have available, and the health of the overall swarm.
- • Customizable event logging for each download, and individual event logs for all peers within the swarm.
- • Expert local file management functions which allow you to move files to a different location even while downloading is still in progress.
- • 100% compatible with the BitTorrent protocol.
- • Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and Linux-GTK native versions available.
Why We Recommend Tixati:
While we wouldn’t go out of our way to suggest using Tixati on many of your private tracker accounts, this client is hard-to-beat for public torrents & magnet links. Connectivity and download speeds are above average without a sacrifice for high memory consumption. In our own words, here are just some of the advanced features we discovered:
- • Meta-Info: (Magnet link-to-torrent, and vice-versa). Magnet links from jobs added as .torrent files are displayed and can be copied from within the app, to share as direct links. Inversely, jobs that were originally added through magnet links can be saved as .torrent files.
- • File Priority: The ability to prioritize the files (pieces) sequentially in a downloading torrent. Great if you want to be able to preview a partially-downloaded file.
- • Auto-downloading: The ability to automatically add .torrent files from a target location. Tixati will scan a chosen target directly, and add/start .torrents that have been added here.
- • Multi file ’save’ locations: Finished files can be (globally) set to move to a predetermined location - but even better, individual jobs can be set to move to a desired location while downloading. For example, you can tell a music torrent to complete in C:\Music, and direct a movie to C:\Movies.
- • Ultra-fast magnet-link connections - no need to wait for the magnet link to connect to the swarm.
- • Support for both tracker proxying and/or peer TCP proxy.
- • Tracker filtering: The ability to globally block certain trackers from connecting.
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