After what seems like an eternity, a new major release of uTorrent has hit the web. uTorrent is a bittorrent client which is well known for it's efficiency, stability and simplicity.
Features
- Unicode support for Windows 95/98/ME, avoiding use of the Microsoft Layer for Unicode which is several times larger than µTorrent.
- UPnP support for all versions of Windows, without needing Windows XP's UPnP framework.
- Protocol encryption (PE),
- Peer exchange (PEX) with other µTorrent clients,
- RSS ("broadcatching").
- "Trackerless" BitTorrent support using DHT, compatible with the original BitTorrent client and BitComet.
- User configurable intelligent disk caching system.
- Full proxy server support.
- HTTPS tracker support.
- Configurable bandwidth scheduler.
- Customizable search bar and icons.
- Localized for 38 languages.
- Initial seeding of torrents.
- Customizable user interface design
- Configuration settings and temporary files are stored in a single directory, allowing portable use.
- WebUI
- Embedded Tracker - a simple tracker designed for seeding torrents, lacking a web interface or list of hosted torrents.
How to get it
You can download uTorrent directly from official servers. It's free and is less than 200KB in file size.
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Optimization
We get a lot of mails regarding slow download rates. To get optimal download rate in torrents, some tweaks may need to be applied. The tweaks we mention here are suited for a 512Kbit/s ADSL connection and applying these to a different connection may cause slow download speeds.
- Install version 1.7
- Open uTorrent, go to Options-->Preferences.
- In general tab under 'Windows Integration", click on the button to make uTorrent default application for handling torrent files.
- Then browse to 'Connection' tab in preferences window. Under 'Global Bandwidth Limiting', set max UPLOAD rate to 7 and max DOWNLOAD rate to 0 (o is unlimited). (These settings are for 512K connections only).
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