Tixati is a free and easy to use BitTorrent client featuring detailed views of all seed, peer, and file transfer properties. Also included are powerful bandwidth charting and throttling capabilities, and a full DHT implementation. Tixati is one of the most advanced and flexible BitTorrent clients available. And unlike many other clients, Tixati contains NO SPYWARE, NO ADS, and NO GIMMICKS.
Tixati portable version is meant to run on a USB flash drive or other portable media. It stores all it"s configuration files in the same folder as the executable binary files, and all file paths are stored in a format relative to the program executable folder.
It is important you do not delete the "tixati_portable_mode.txt" file within the executables folder. This file is what triggers Tixati to run in portable mode. (The executable binaries are actually the same as the standard edition binaries.)
When running the portable edition from a USB flash drive, especially one that is formatted in FAT16/FAT32, you may experience some lag when initially loading a new transfer. This is because initializing and allocating large files on flash-based media consumes a greater amount of time and resources compared to a conventional hard-drive.
Tixati has the following features:
- detailed views of all aspects of the swarm, including peers, pieces, files, and trackers
- support for magnet links, so no need to download .torrent files if a simple magnet-link is available
- super-efficient peer choking/unchoking algorithms ensure the fastest downloads
- peer connection encryption for added security
- full DHT (Distributed Hash Table) implementation for trackerless torrents, including detailed message traffic graphs and customizable event logging
- advanced bandwidth charting of overall traffic and per-transfer traffic, with separate classification of protocol and file bytes, and with separate classification of outbound traffic for trading and seeding
- highly flexible bandwidth throttling, including trading/seeding proportion adjustment and adjustable priority for individual transfers and peers
- bitfield graphs that show the completeness of all downloaded files, what pieces other peers have available, and the health of the overall swarm
- customizable event logging for each download, and individual event logs for all peers within the swarm
- expert local file management functions which allow you to move files to a different partition even while downloading is still in progress
- 100% compatible with the BitTorrent protocol
- Windows and Linux-GTK native versions available
Changes in Tixati 2.18:
- random-port feature with adjustable interval
- NAT-PMP port-mapping support in parallel with UPNP
- greatly improved UPNP compatibility
- all HTTPS connections (trackers/RSS/etc) support Server Name Indication (SNI)
- WebUI now has full HTTPS capabilities, generates self-signed certs
- torrent file loading compatibility improvements (work-around broken encodings in .torrent files)
- raised incoming block request queue declared ("reqq") limit to 256, raised actual limit to 512
- outgoing block request pipelining algorithms are greatly improved
- numerous improvements to automatic upload/download queue slot management
- channel stream hash-checking has a few important fixes to better cope with naturally zerod-out sections in streams
- several minor fixes to channel information propagation, and channel topic change logic
- new HTTP framework and core logic for trackers, RSS, IPFilter downloader, .torrent downloader, web seed client
- new incoming port manager and configuration GUI
- bandwidth throttle has been fully replaced, including all core proportioning logic
- new UDP Peer Connection protocol driver (used by transfer peers and channel connections)
- Linux versions now leave a crash-dump on desktop if there is a SIGSEGV, SIGABRT, SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGINT, or SIGQUIT
- process time-scheduler and runtime profiler have been upgraded
- completely new event-logging engine that uses much less memory to hold backscroll buffers
- a completely new filesystem driver, which offers improved performance when saving/loading any data to/from files
- new DNS resolver
- new low-level TCP/UDP event-driving and notification systems
- all tracker code, including UDP tracking, has been fully re-implemented
- outgoing connection pacing engine is new (regulation of simultaneous outgoing connections, eg. "Waiting to connect")
- all core shell-integration features are now relying on the new framework
- peer connection attempt sequencing and timing logic (udp/tcp/enc/plain) is now much more accurate
- new ICMP driver for auto-throttle (ping/traceroute)
- major revisions to auto-throttle trace/ping failure handling logic
- several other minor GUI fixes and improvements
Update: Tixati version 2.19 is now available.
This is a minor last-minute update to version 2.18 released earlier today. There have been a few important changes:
- changed incoming block request queue size (declared 512, limit 1600) for better compatibility with non-conforming clients
- outgoing block request pipelining algorithms adjusted to be more aggressive at higher speeds (>2MB/s)
- automatic retry on incoming port bind error window
- fixed problems with incoming port errors (EADDRNOTAVAIL) when corrupt addresses arrive via hole-punching
- fixed crash when renaming folders in files tab
- minor adjustments to run-time profiler for better accuracy
Download: Tixati 2.18 32-bit | 12.3 MB (Freeware)
Download: Tixati 2.18 64-bit | 12.4 MB
Download: Portable Tixati 2.18 | 53.4 MB
Download: Tixati 2.18 for Linux
View: Tixati Website