Friday, January 16, 2015

Tixati Torrent Client - 4.5 Out Of 5!

FOR SOME REASON UTORRENT QUIT WORKING. I TWEAKED MY FIREWALL SETTINGS AND MONKEYED AROUND WITH PORT FORWARDING, BUT I COULD NOT GET IT TO WORK AGAIN. SO I SAID THE HELL WITH IT AND TRIED FROSTWIRE, THE OPEN SOURCE TORRENT CLIENT. WELL, MY SYSTEM GOT SO BOGGED DOWN WHILE DOWNLOADING AND WEB PAGES TOOK SO LONG TO LOAD I ABANDONED THAT SOFTWARE TOO. WELL, I WENT TO FILE HIPPO, THE GREAT SOFTWARE REPOSITORY AND WENT TO THEIR FILE SHARING SECTION AND WAS GOING TO TRY VUZE, BUT THIS SOFTWARE RELIED HEAVILY ON JAVA SO I SAID SCRATCH THAT JAVA=SECURITY ISSUES! I WENT FURTHER AND READ THE COMMENTS SECTION UNDER REVIEWS AND THERE WERE SOME PRETTY STRONG PROPONENTS OF TIXATI. FILE HIPPO DOES NOT CARRY TIXATI IN ITS CATALOG BUT A QUICK SEARCH LED ME TO THEIR HOMEPAGE AND AFTER A QUICK DOWNLOAD AND A HASSLE FREE INSTALL, I WAS UP AND RUNNING SEEDING TORRENTS IN NO TIME. 

THE TIXATI TORRENT CLIENT IS LIGHTWEIGHT, DOES NOT CONSUME MANY RESOURCES AND RUNS IN THE BACKGROUND SO YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT'S THERE. TIXATI CAN BE SET TO A NUMBER OF PREFERENCES AND SO FAR I'M REALLY PLEASED WITH IT'S PERFORMANCE. SO GOOD-BYE UTORRENT - HELLO TIXATI! I'LL GIVE IT A 4.5 OUT OF 5. THE ONLY REASON I DON'T GIVE IT A FULL 5 IS THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN USING IT LONG ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU MY FULL SEAL OF APPROVAL. HOWEVER BY THE LOOKS OF IT, TIXATI IS A PRETTY NIFTY PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER DEPLOYING.

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