BitTornado is a bittorrent client built on the original BitTorrent client from BitTorrent Inc. This client features a console and curses mode, lots of features, and is one of the original bittorrent clients created.

Features include:
* upload/download speed limitation
* prioritised downloading when downloading batches (several files)
* detailed information about connections to other peers
* encryption (PE/MSE) support (with the recommended python-crypto)
* console mode for running from scripts
* curses mode for running interactively
* tracker for the distribution of files
This package contains the console and curses interfaces, and a bittorrent tracker, install the package bittornado-gui to get the GUI components. See the bittorrent package for a description of what bittorrent is.