AfterDawn: News

Chinese 'Thunder' is most used torrent client

According to new figures from TorrentFreak, uTorrent is no longer the most used torrent client in the world, being surpassed by the Chinese client "Thunder." The data was collected from 357 million unique peer IDs from all over the world.

About 30 percent of all tracker connections come from China, with the U.S. as a distant runner up at 8 percent.



Thunder/Xunlei has taken the lead from uTorrent and the stats were taken from OpenBitTorrent, PublicBitTorrent and Denis Stalker trackers. Vuze remains close in third place.

Full pic:



Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 5 Dec 2009 12:02

• Previous article

• Nokia to halve smartphone offerings in 2010

• Next article

• LG begins mass production on Full HD 3D displays

• 6 comments

• jony218

  If I was Thunder/Xunlei I would stay on the "downlow" of the radar screen.
  It's not something to brag about, less "the man" get too interested. The man has been known to go after lesser "torrent clients" that got too big for there own good.
  Hopefully we won't be reading an "eulogy" on the demise of Thunder/Xunlei in the foreseeable future.

  6.12.2009 00:25 #1

• Hopium

  ^^ aint nobody saying jack to the chinese so i dont know what your talking about if the mpiaa tried to stronghold them they owuld just stop making their dvd's lmao

  6.12.2009 11:13 #2

• Mik3h

  Originally posted by jony218: If I was Thunder/Xunlei I would stay on the "downlow" of the radar screen.
  It's not something to brag about, less "the man" get too interested. The man has been known to go after lesser "torrent clients" that got too big for there own good.
  Hopefully we won't be reading an "eulogy" on the demise of Thunder/Xunlei in the foreseeable future.But Torrent clients themselves are perfectly legal, it's the data being shared without the copyright holder's permission that isn't.
  Xunlei looks like a strange Chinese version of BitComet
  

  http://my.afterdawn.com/mik3h/blog_entry.cfm/1394 - Guides written by me.
  http://www.adbuddies.org/ - Join us Live on IRC!
  
  (Kudos to Ripper For The Beautiful Sig!)
  
  

  6.12.2009 12:18 #3

• cyprusrom

  Originally posted by jony218: If I was Thunder/Xunlei I would stay on the "downlow" of the radar screen.
  It's not something to brag about, less "the man" get too interested. The man has been known to go after lesser "torrent clients" that got too big for there own good.
  Hopefully we won't be reading an "eulogy" on the demise of Thunder/Xunlei in the foreseeable future.I think you're mistaking it for a torrent site...

  6.12.2009 21:44 #4

• scum101

  It IS bitcomet.. or a clone of the code. .. obsolete and highly insecure.. the reason private trackers ban all bit***** code based clients.
  

  Yes, we give you 100% free, no strings attached email! Just send us your address and we will send you as much free email as you could ever wish for

  6.12.2009 21:47 #5

• badimalex

  SPAM removed

  3.1.2010 05:53 #6