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KTorrent

KTorrent

KTorrent is a popular BitTorrent program for KDE.

It has a large feature set (see the list below) including supporting trackerless torrents and UPnP.

Check out Deluge for an alternative to KTorrent. Deluge is designed for the GNOME desktop environment.


 KTorrent 3.2.2

Price
Free to download

Size
2.5MB
License

GNU GPL v2

Developer
Joris Guisson, Ivan Vasic and Adam Treat

Website
ktorrent.org

System Requirements
KDE

Support Sites:
KTorrent ForumKDE Extragear

Selected Reviews:
Softpedia

Features include:

  • µTorrent compatible peer exchange
  • Zeroconf extension to find peers on the local network
  • WebGUI plugin
  • RSS plugin
  • Statistics plugin
  • Grouping feature to put torrents into groups
  • Downloads torrent files
  • Upload and download speed capping
  • Internet searching using various search engines, you can even add your own UDP Trackers
  • IPv6 support
  • SOCKSv4 and v5 support
  • Port forwarding with UPnP
  • IP blocking plugin
  • Importing of partially or fully downloaded files
  • Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version)
  • Protocol encryption
  • Bandwith scheduling
  • Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in certain directories
  • Trackers can now be added to torrents
  • File prioritization for multi file torrents
  • Speed limits for individual torrents
  • Diskspace monitoring
  • Flat list mode
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Last Updated Sunday, August 09 2009 @ 01:32 PM EDT


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