- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/NT
- Date added: January 25, 2010
- Total Downloads: 7,180,365
- Downloads last week: 80,966
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 740 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on February 03, 2010
Small enough to run off a USB key, but powerful enough to download any torrent in a jiffy (if it's got enough seeders), uTorrent 2.0 is easy on the eyes and smart on your network. The memory footprint for uTorrent is very small, and system resources are barely touched. While you're torrenting, you shouldn't be surprised to find that other programs that use your Internet connection slow down, but the latest version of uTorrent has an answer to that. Called uTorrent Protocol, or uTP, it's a built-in throttling that detects network congestion and slows down the torrent until the traffic jam has dissipated.
Version 2.0 includes a transfer cap, so that users who have had limits imposed by their ISPs can keep track and automatically kill torrenting when that limit is reached. Skins have also been introduced, but there's no skins option in Preferences: instead, you must go to the uTorrent site and download and install them yourself. That's unnecessarily irritating.
The most difficult aspect of using a torrent client is still finding the torrents, but included are both a torrent search bar and a handy RSS feed download function. Subscribe to select feeds, and uTorrent automatically downloads files as they publish. Adding, starting, pausing, and listing torrents takes merely a click each. A speed guide helps you test your ports and adjust system settings for optimal performance, although watch out for the opt-out Ask.com toolbar when you install. Combined with Local Peer Discovery and DHT Network options, and Teredo and Ipv6 support, uTorrent should be the torrent program of choice for novices, intermediate, and advanced users.
Publisher's description
From BitTorrent :uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading, and Mainline DHT. Additionally, uTorrent supports the protocol encryption joint specification and peer exchange. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources--typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 740 votes
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Version: uTorrent 2.0 build 17920
"Been using 2.0 since beta. Best client available."
Pros: Downloads are deifinitely faster and doesn't appear to impact web access. New transfer cap is great idea if it's necessary to monitor bandwidth.
Cons: Can't configure it to wash my car.
Summary: User friendly interface, bandwidth control for both UL and DL, avg. CPU usage whether up or downloading is 1% , able to choose downloads from multiple file torrents, magnet uri association, (one of) advanced settings forces first/last piece download... read more >>
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Version: uTorrent 2.0 build 17920
"simple, fast, multilanguage - great!!"
Pros: simple, fast, multilanguage
Cons: really no cons
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Version: uTorrent 2.0 build 17920
"good,better,best things come in (very) tiny packages"
Pros: small, light, user friendly, resource friendly, with the new search bar it beats all competition.
Cons: there are none for the average user. but for individual tastes - getting new skins is annoying and its not the fastest stuff out there without accelerators.
Summary: this product beats them all.
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Version: uTorrent 2.0 build 17920
"Good things come in small packages!"
Pros: Everything is a pro :)
Cons: If there is one, I couldn't find it!
Summary: Small, fast and efficient! What else do you want?
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: uTorrent 2.0 build 17920
"I'd love to take advantage of the new features, but..."
Pros: Started downloading files quicker at faster speeds...
Cons: but it keeps BSODing my computer!
Summary: At first I thought it was a driver issue (at least that's what the BSOD said). Nope. Made sure drivers were up to date. Even rolled back drivers to known working ones. Only other thing I've installed recently was uTorrent 2.0. Now that I'm back... read more >>
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