[D.D.]

i just tried utorrent...its definitely giving me slower speed than azureus.

 

[Viper_Viper]

Gonna try this, I need something to get me away from ABC; it's been crappy to me lately.

ABC is fine for me, its all ive ever used once I got myself off the original client.

 

[ChaosBlade]

A new version should be out soon that should boost up speeds considerably.

 

[ChaosBlade]

Update, v1.1.3 is released. www.utorrent.com

 

[D.D.]

thanks for the update. it improved greatly on speeds but still not up to the level of azureus yet. but i have to say it looks very promising. i cant wait to try out v1.1.7

 

[ChaosBlade]

The wonderfull thing about it is the developer commitment to LISTENING. He considers what the users are asking and tries to satisfy everyone while keeping true to the original goals of the client. I think thats a great attitude

 

[Noxious Ninja]

It could only be better if it were open-source.

*ducks and hides from Flare*

 

[ChaosBlade]

I dont think it does any difference in a project like this. The BitTorrent protocol is open source completely. I even prefer it this way, notice all the G3 hacks that occured.

 

[Noxious Ninja]

That was supposed to be a joke. Oh well.

 

[Player-X]

Now that it can actuaily equal Azureus on most torrents (exccept on the connecting faster to peers) without slowing my computer to a crawl I am going to use it

 

[ChaosBlade]

µTorrent v1.1.4 released, now has super-seeding and more speed improvements. This one is a keeper, I suggest you try this version if you had issues with the previous ones.

 

[n_w95482]

I'll try it out in a couple of minutes. Speed isn't much of an issue for me as I don't download torrents often (I seed a ton though ), neither is resource usage. But small applications are always nice . I used to use ABC way back when but I had issues with its memory usage randomly going out of control, so I switched to Azureus. It uses a lot of resources but the amount it uses is more stable than what ABC used . I also like the amount of features it has. I'm interested in seeing how this client is .

 

[ChaosBlade]

I dont especially like azureus' vast features. Over half of them are just out of pure lazyness to me.

 

[Player-X]

I just have mysterious connection problems with it so I am sticking with azureus

 

[Random-hero]

I tried it and its good. And take less cpu than azerus

 

[VDDZ]

My verdict: #$%^en love uTorrent! Speeds are much faster (opened the same torrent at almost the same time with u and ABC [opened with ABC first] and u grabed sources far faster than ABC and dl was ~ 195 for u where ABC was ~55). ABC would stay open in the background after being closed and would need to be ended, often noticed when restarting; no such problem with u.

 

[Mr. Killjoy]

Agreed, µtorrent rocks, I can use it without slowing my games down, and it weights only 86kb!

Azureus got a trip to the recycle bin

 

[D.D.]

question : does utorrent have diskcaching to reduce HD thrashing? im thinking of completely switching over from azureus.

 

[ChaosBlade]

Yes, It does. Just look around in the options
Though i think thats just another one of azureus' useless features as windows does disk caching natively either way.

 

[Mr. Killjoy]

Yeah, it has this feature, but be sure to enable it before starting DLing, cause it's default disabled