{"id":2009,"date":"2007-07-26T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/get-tyrannical-with-torrents\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:50:15","slug":"get-tyrannical-with-torrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-tyrannical-with-torrents\/","title":{"rendered":"Get tyrannical with torrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"BitTyrant\" id=\"image2011\" title=\"BitTyrant\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/bittyrantlogo.jpg\" \/>There are so many torrent clients out there claiming to give you better speeds that you have to take all the hype with a pinch of salt. However, when one comes along that claims to be 70% quicker than the rest, you have to take note. That&#8217;s what the developers of <a href=\"http:\/\/bittyrant.en.softonic.com\">BitTyrant<\/a> say, promising a more equal distribution between your upload speed and your download speed.<\/p>\n<p>BitTyrant is actually based on <a href=\"http:\/\/azureus.en.softonic.com\">Azeureus 2.5<\/a> but differs in the way it handles traffic. The key lies in the way it selects peers to &#8216;unchoke&#8217;. BitTyrant ranks all peers by their received\/sent ratios, preferentially unchoking those peers with high ratios. The client is called BitTyrant because in this way, it &#8216;tyranically&#8217; uses all available bandwidth and transfer capacity to complete torrents.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, BitTyrant genuinely rewards you the more you upload whereas other clients that claim to do so, don&#8217;t often deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many torrent clients out there claiming to give you better speeds that you have to take all the hype with a pinch of salt. However, when one comes along that claims to be 70% quicker than the rest, you have to take note. That&#8217;s what the developers of BitTyrant say, promising a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-tyrannical-with-torrents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get tyrannical with torrents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337356,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/337356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}