Rocket Torrents launches Top Torrents
p2pnet news view P2P:- Rocket Torrents, available for free, says it’s the first BitTorrent client to provide dynamic torrent download rankings from within the software application interface.
The feature, Top Torrents, is found under the Torrents tab beginning with the 5.2.3 software release.
Adware and spyware free, it allows users to view constantly-updated torrent download rankings from aggregate activity across all torrent sites, developer Paschal Rousseau tells p2pnet.
Once content is selected, users can link to a torrent site that’s providing the torrent file, he says, continuing:
“Other companies have been attempting to track global torrent activity, but the data are usually just syndicated out to Web sites where they become outdated.
“Rocket Torrents is the first to provide these data to users, live and in near-real-time, and from right inside the client software.”
Torrent download statistics in Top Torrents can be broken out by categories including, Games, Movies, Music, Software, TV Shows, and Other.
Rankings are also available by genre, ie, TV Shows can be filtered by Action, Cartoons, Comedy, etc.
Moreover, within any Top Torrents category and genre, users can decide if they want to see the top download activity for Last Day, Last Week, Last Month or Last 6 Months.
Based on the classic version of LimeWire Pro, the new Rocket Torrents software supports both Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols.
“Most software companies who build on the LimeWire platform charge $30 to $40 for the Pro version, which is designed to provide more connections and faster results than the standard ‘Free’ version, says the company. But, “Rocket Torrents includes Pro functionality at no charge,” it says.
The software also has proprietary features which not only accelerate downloads five-to-ten times faster than other clients, reduce fake files and spam in search results, but also provide access to popular live TV, movie and radio streams, and games, says Rousseau.
The Top Torrents feature allows users to quickly find and join the Webs most active swarms — groups of concurrent BitTorrent users actively downloading and sharing files, he says, pointing out files in the most active swarms are the most popular and usually the best quality versions.
Joining large torrent swarms is generally known to produce a more consistently positive torrent download experience, says Rousseau.
“Strong active torrent swarms are a critical element to faster and safer downloading,” he says. “Some power-users who were involved in our beta testing of this feature have reported that the new Top Torrents tab has now become their primary way to find popular files.”
And highly-active torrents download faster, are more reliable and are much less likely to contain malware or viruses than less-active torrents,” he notes.
The company says features include »»»
Firewall to Firewall Transfers
Since about 60% of users are currently firewalled; this feature greatly increases the amount of content on the network.
Faster Network Connections
Using new UDP Host Caches, RocketTorrents starts up and connections faster than ever before!
Proxy Support. Users can now use web proxies to route their downloads to protect their identity.
Preview While Downloading
Preview MP3s, Videos, & Movies during the downloading process.
P2P Downloading
Bittorrent technology is integrated into HTTP/FTP download, with which RocketTorrents automatically finds other clients and gets data from them to increase your download speed.
Quick Torrent Resume
Torrents can be seeded or resumed immediately without time consuming scans.
Click here to download Rocket Torrents.
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July, 2009
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July 25th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Sounds .. interesting.
I’ll wait for Surfers take on this.
I can’t imagine it’s any safer than any other BT client, it just sounds
more convenient and it’s not dependent on any one particular Torrent
aggregator site.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Oh, and please .. don’t hesitate to be technical.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:09 am
looks like limewire/frostwire. gets a trojan warning at install. java based, vista refuses to boot it up and close it down..good idea. wants to install a toolbar during installation. had it on for a whopping 3 minutes, got frustrated and uninstalled it, i stick to my torrents and nzb.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:46 am
What is with p2p clients and java?
it appears that it won’t work with freedom scientific Jaws for Windows.
So that’s out the window.
July 27th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
It’s amusing to see quick complaints of trojans in new P2P clients.
I installed it ( haven’t put it to actual use yet ).
WinXP pro Genuine.
3 ghx P4 2gb RAM.
AVG pro ( paid for ) resident shield.
SASW free version
Installation was smooth, easy to understand options to opt out of the toolbar, and other ‘extras’,
which I did.
It required a Java update, which it did without a problem, ans was legit,
( my Java client WAS out of date ).
NO virii or trojans.
Nothing sneaky added to startup items ( msconfig checks, HJ manual check, Registry manual check of
drivers and logon and userinit keys etc .. ).
Most quick trojan complaints some from industry folk who want to frighten people away from
using p2p clients. Also, I still have the unprovable opinion that RIAA agents are the ones seeding
most of the worst trojan infested software on the P2P networks, in order to discourage their use.
So far, after installation, this app is totally clean.
First run of the app had no surprises either.
I’ll play around with it this week to see how well it performs otherwise.
It would be helpful is someone with more understanding of the protocols involved
would do a deeper examination of this, if they have time. Protocol examination is
one of my weak points, while virus, trojan, and other malware detection and
fighting is one of my VERY strong skills.
So far this software is squeaky clean.
July 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Your playing into newton’s hands. He deleted a post which said he was writing up an advertiser without disclosing it was an advertiser.
July 27th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
” Your playing into newtonâs hands. He deleted a post which said he was writing up an advertiser without disclosing it was an advertiser. ”
I don’t really care.
Jon needs to be able to support his work here, an I fully support that.
In the spirit of that support I will strive to disprove negative statements against
those advertisers, when those accusations have no basis in fact.
Cheers Jon, and as I said, I’ll be playing with this for about a week to see how it holds up.
Meanwhile I hope Surfer has some time to peek under the hood.
July 27th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
“Your playing into newtonâs hands”
p2pnet doesn’t have advertisers: it has friends who rent space so they can tell readers about their products or services, and if I can help by posting items of genuine news about them, I do.
I deleted the comment because trolls only serve to take atttention away from content.
Also see http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16253
And if you want to now my thoughts on advertising, http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16878
Cheers! And thanks, Dredd
July 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I am one of the developers of the Rocket Torrents software and would hope everyone would actually download the software and give it a fair evaluation. We have worked very hard to give average user of p2p a better free file sharing software.
We are trying make it easier for users to find the most popular torrents. The most active swarms give a faster downloading experience. Why would you criticize this? Yes we offer and optional toolbar, like Frostwire who is also built of the Limewire Pro code. The software is free but we need something to help pay bandwidth and development costs. What better way than an optional toolbar.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
@ Dredd, Yes please evaluate this and find a way to let us p2pnet lurkers know how it performs!
I’ve used some of these derivitive forms of Limewire in the past, but dont feel like flogging another
new version right now, so thanks for your willingness to check under the hood on this one!!
stw
July 27th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
” Why would you criticize this? ”
Don’t let it get to you Paschal.
That poster is a regular here and always jumps at the
chance to post something negative about Jon, the site, or it’s partners.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Ok
I installed and set this up the way I would use a P2P app like this ( I normally don’t use apps like this ).
I’ll explain that in a bit.
I already described installation, and that went well, but one the that I like the LEAST about these
type of clients has not changed ……
By default, it sets up your shared folder as visible and accessible to anyone else.
It is pretty easy to ‘unshare’ folders and disable partial torrent sharing though.
I set it up pointing to an empty folder to store downloaded torrents, disabled the default shared folder,
( thus sharing nothing ), so that after a download completes I can IMMEDIATELY move it to another
drive for more permanent ( and invisible ) storage.
Once using the File, Connect, option to connect to the Rocket network it works pretty much like most
,
.
clients does.
Click the Music tab brings up a nice list of popular titles, with a ’star’ grading system for rating the quality
of the file. Users vote. This may weed out fakes, but I am not knowledgable enough about the workings
of these clients to know if it can be spoofed.
Downloading from this list can be pretty speedy .. if I actually downloaded, which I never do
even from the worst possible location, my workshop which is pretty far from my wireless router,
so my signal is pretty low. The software detected my firewall, but I really didn’t have to tweak it to
get good speed, that is, if I were to download .. which I never do
The Torrents tab brings up a sizeable list of aggregated torrents on the main screen, with a category list on the left.
so I used the ‘Search’ feature located right above
This makes it pretty easy to locate what you want. The list of torrents is easily sortable in the standard Windows
way … Click on Name to sort ascending/Descending etc ..
Naturally, there wasn’t anything on this list that I would DL
the category list.
It’s a Google search
.
It brings up a browser window of a google search for the torrent you wanted …. nice little poke in Googles nose.
Using this search I found the latest version of Ubuntu ( I’m still on Hardy Heron so this I WOULD DL ).
Once again Dl speed was actually pretty decent for my location … I was impressed, since I didn’t have to
do ANY tweaking to get acceptable performance.
Nice and easy for the novice.
I haven’t played with the movie and TV streaming yet, but I twiddled with the streaming radio a bit and it
worked well, though it’s not a feature I would normally use.
So far the only thing I don’t like is that sharing is ON by default.
I know you guys mean well but by this time you have to be aware that having sharing on by default
is a problem.
IMO it should be disabled by default and let the USER turn it on of they want to risk it.
There are those that will not let a person ‘leech’ but there are always many more that don’t care,
especially OUTSIDE the US, so I can’t stress this enough, if you want to use a client like this it
is in your best interests to turn OFF sharing. It may take you a little longer to get what you want,
but the risks, small as they may be aren’t worth it.
Set your Download path to an empty directory, that is not shared, and as soon as you have the
file you want, move it to another location and keep that folder empty, so there is nothing for
any prying eyes to see.
Thats about all I have time for for a bit, I am swamped with work due to a new rootkit keylogger
trojan that’s been making the rounds, and is a bitch to remove.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Thanks for the trouble, Dredd.
Cheers!
July 30th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Sorry it took so long, now it’s fallen off the main page.
If you think it merits an article, that’s fine by me.
August 16th, 2009 at 8:10 am
All I was really looking for at the moment was a b/t client that dosent hog resources and will allow fast uploads.The first thing this wanted to do was re d/l a file i already have that I was wanting to seed.I will keep it a while and try some d/l with it later but for now i gotta find a replacment for microtorrent as latley it has started acting up on me.for no reason my downloads will drop speed from over 400kb/s up to next to nothing and may stay that way for hours or may fix themselves almost instantly back to the original speed only to start the process over again almost instantlyt.I have tried every fix i could find that was even remotley related to no avail.I hope this is seen and a way is put in where I can restart a finished torrent just to seed as i like the looks of this client and the way it behaved while i had it running seemed very professional. roger
September 6th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Hi guys!
I have no idea what my wife was thinking when she installed Rocket Torrents. She has no clue what it does. I wasn’t there when she installed it, so I have no idea how to get rid of it, which is why I am writing. Immediately after she installed it, she had difficulty doing normal, everyday things ranging from posting on Craigslist, to checking her e-mail to opening more than one tab on her browser.
She said she tried uninstalling it, but that it didn’t work. The home page is set to go to Google, and Rocket Torrents proudly pastes their logo all over it. Obviously, this thing isn’t dead yet! I have only clicked on the “delete application” X on the LEFT side of the screen, and that bit of real estate disappeared at least.
Any clues or hints on how to finish the removal of this most UNhelpful piece of software would be greatly appreciated, given that I have no clue how far along or not far along the uninstall process actually is.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Dear Frustrated,
Looks like your wife installed the optional Rocket Torrents Google search toolbar.
Q: How do I uninstall the Rocket Torrrents Google toolbar?
A:
1. Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs
2. Remove “Rocket Torrents”
If you have any additional questions you can email us directly at support@rockettorrents.com
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