A mini bittorrent client

Halite is a handy, free software only available for Windows, that belongs to the category Downloading software with subcategory P2P (more specifically Bittorrent).

More about Halite

Since we added this program to our catalog in 2007, it has managed to reach 23,182 downloads, and last week it achieved 4 downloads.Its current version is 0.3.0.2 and it has been updated on 2/06/2008. Halite is available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and previous versions, and it is only available in English. Halite is a light software that needs less free space than most programs in the section Downloading software. It’s a software frequently downloaded in United States, Canada, and India.

Halite is yet another open-source BitTorrent client and is based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. What makes Halite stand out is its remote control interface allowing you to monitor and control the program from a mobile phone. It supports the following features:

• Multiple downloads.
• Displays more detailed information for the selected torrent.
• Connection limits both global and per-torrent.
• Transfer rate limits again global and per-torrent.
• Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol).
• IP filtering with eMule ipfilter.dat import.
• Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary.
• Association with “.torrent” files.
• Option to limit the number of instances to one.
• Estimated time remaining indicator.