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uTorrent

uTorrent is an easy to use, yet feature packed BitTorrent client, that enables you to download and manage .torrent files from the web. It features global and per-torrent speed limiting, simultaneous ...

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Mar 16, 2009
For version:
1.8.2

Great for downloading horrible on uploading

Interface: 4
Features: 1
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

I found a huge bug in uTorrent. You can create a torrent using uTorrent and it does't always seed correctly. Once you upload a certain amount, if you hit stop - force -> recheck, uTorrent no longer recognizes your hash on the file YOU create. This leaves everyone of the people trying to download the file from you with an incomplete file, and you can't fix it. The uTorrent people have told me it's the fault of Windows Media Player tagging mp3 or WMA or whatever files you use. This is a MAJOR flaw, that you now have corrupt files you're transfering all over the place. While it works well if you just download, make sure you constantly do a force -> recheck for any torrents you start. This explains a lot of why people have torrents that for no reason suddenly get stuck

Review by: EricPost (7)
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Feb 09, 2009
For version:
1.8.2

This might be the best

Interface: 4
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

I'm not a heavy user / provider of torrents, but now and then I find myself there. I've been using Azureus, but when I got wild about downloading Battlestar Galactica, I started to wonder if it all had to be that heavy and slow. Azureus gave me 10-50, 150kb/s, at most, but with uTorrent I got up to 400 or, momentarily, even 800kb/s... it was unbelievable for an older program with quite few seeders - and it just kept the speed! This is a highly recommendable program; the only problem I've had is some stalling with my firewall, a thing they admit in uTorrent's FAQ. It caused some slowdown in other Internet activity but then, I was getting down some 30 files, and you can't expect to get everything done in all circumstances, can you? All in all, an awesome product. And to consider: it's free. Having tried this and that, I'd claim this might be the best.

Review by: Henry8 (27)
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Jan 31, 2009
For version:
1.8.2

The very best p2p program

Interface: 5
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

This tiny program is my very favorite for peer-to-peer file sharing. It is outstanding in all aspects.

Review by: BillPfeifer (3)
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Jan 27, 2009
For version:
1.8.2

Cannot disagree with anyone here

Interface: 5
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

It's just the lightest, lowest resource using, easiest to use, best torrent software there is, no if's, and's, or but's. The hardest part of using this software is getting your port forwarded on your modem, but portforward.com is a big help since they have begun offering detailed instructions on how to port forward a wide variety of modems.

Review by: megabob6666 (19)
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Jan 01, 2009
For version:
1.8.1

Works perfectly

Interface: 5
Features: 4
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

I downloaded this software for my first experience with torrent files...so far it has been excellent - very lightweight.(I am running it on an external hard drive as it is standalone.)A very simple interface and a changeable port option gets you going straight away.I use the copy and paste option to link it to the file but there are also other options to do this ..it does miss out on excellent ..just because it doesnt have a search facility .. torrent sites can be a bit of a minefield! I highly recommend this for use with SiteAdvisor(on snapfiles). Thank you for a great bit of kit that is free, marvelous!!

Review by: ruthless (33)
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Aug 22, 2008
For version:
1.8

The best

Interface: 3
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

Of all the torrent programs I've tried (on several machines), uTorrent is by far the fastest. It's basic, but but packs in all the features you need, and that's far preferred to bloatware.

Review by: Klatuu (3)
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Nov 11, 2007
For version:
1.7.2

Freakin great torrenter

Interface: 5
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

This tiny Program acts like a Giant. All the features of the resource gobblers. How the heck did they make it so small. Smart Dudes or Dudettes. Very easy to setup. Firewalls are happy with it. I have had great speeds with this little dude. GET IT and dump your other one....;o)

Review by: Chazzz (9)
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Mar 26, 2007
For version:
1.6.1

Best torrent program out there!

Interface: 5
Features: 3
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

Best torrent program out there! I have tried 3 different torrent programs and for whatever reason, uTorrent downloaded torrents faster then any other program I have ever used. I used to only get around 20-30kbs-download speed, but for some reason uTorrent gives me around 30-60kbs. Lose your old torrent program and get this, trust me.

Review by: zoso1231 (2)
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Nov 25, 2006
For version:
1.6

Perfect bittorrent client

Interface: 5
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

All features, intuitive, easy to use, low CPU/memory usage, no install, even lots of skins (if you need) - just perfect!

Review by: Dreamer888 (17)
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Oct 16, 2006
For version:
1.6

Best torrent client ever was or will be

Interface: 4
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

It's small, it's free, it's blazingly fast, it's thrifty on resources, it's amazingly configurable... what else? You can even make it portable: move the three .dat files from Application DatauTorrent into the utorrent.exe folder, and it becomes user-insensitive. Copy all of them (and the torrent download directories) onto a flash drive... and you can download your torrent anywhere!

Review by: pepoluan (22)
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