KTorrent is a
BitTorrent client
The following is a general comparison of BitTorrent clients, which are computer programs designed for peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol.
The BitTorrent protocol coordinates segmented file transfer among peers connected ...
that is part of the
KDE Gear
The KDE Gear (also known as the KDE Applications Bundle or KDE Applications) is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, an ...
.
Features
KTorrent is often received as a client intended to be feature rich. Features include:
*Upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling
*Internet searching with torrent search engines using
KHTML
KHTML is a browser engine developed by the KDE project. It is the default engine of the Konqueror browser, but it has not been actively worked on since 2016. Moreover, KHTML will be discontinued for KDE Frameworks 6.
Built on the KParts fra ...
part.
*Support for
UDP trackers.
*
IP address
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blocklist plugin
*Port forwarding with
UPnP
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that permits networked devices, such as personal computers, printers, Internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the n ...
(Universal Plug and Play)
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Protocol encryption
*
DHT (mainline version), and support for trackerless torrents
*
μTorrent
μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation) is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc. with over 150 million users. It is the most widely used BitTorrent client outside China; globally only behind Xunlei. ...
peer exchange (PEX) support
*File Prioritization
*Ability to import partially downloaded files
*Directory scanner to automatically watch directories for new torrents
*Manual addition of trackers to torrents
*RSS feed support
*Web interface plugin with default port number 8080
*IPv6 support
*
SOCKS
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v4 and v5 support
*
μTP support
*Generation and parsing of
magnet links
*UDP tracker scraping
*Enhanced usability of the queue manager
*
Super-seeding
In file sharing, super-seeding (aka 'Initial Seeding') is an algorithm developed by John Hoffman for the BitTorrent communications protocol that helps downloaders become uploaders more quickly, but it introduces the danger of total seeding failu ...
support
*Streaming of video while downloading
See also
*
KGet
Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems (such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image). It forms a core part of t ...
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qBittorrent
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client written in native C++. It relies on Boost, Qt 6 toolkit and the libtorrent-rasterbar library (for the torrent back-end), with an optional search engine written in Python. ...
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Comparison of BitTorrent software
The following is a general comparison of BitTorrent clients, which are computer programs designed for peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol.
The BitTorrent protocol coordinates segmented file transfer among peers connected ...
References
External links
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KTorrent's KDE Extragear pageBright Hub Multi-part article about Ktorrent
BitTorrent clients for Linux
Extragear
File sharing software that uses Qt
Free BitTorrent clients
KDE Applications
MacOS file sharing software
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