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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.
uTorrent 2.0 looks to the future:Publisher's Description
From BitTorrent:
uTorrent is an 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.
What's new in this version: Version 3.2.2 has added new offer platform displays in-client offers from BitTorrent and software partners and fixed peer ID bug causing disconnects.
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"New Utorrent is full of adware and bloat"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
Nothing! The new developers are quickly ruining everyone's favorite torrent software.
Cons
Garbage malware upon installation, annoying ads all over the place... and if you have a problem with anything and try to bring it up in the user forums their professional troll moderators will gas your thread after insulting you. Stay away from this rapidly degrading program...
Summary
So sad to see the developers destroying this once universally loved program.
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"Malware and ads that can't be removed."
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
no pros with this crap
Cons
Malware sneaks in regardless of install options. Ads show up in utorrent window and can't be removed.
Summary
Get something else.
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"Its good but my ISP hates it"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
Very small and light for my pc.. no problem running it..
In my first months of use it did really great in downloading the contents I need... It also seeds well and the interface is all I need to get every information about the torrent .. I also liked the comments box where I get to see what everybody thinks about the torrent.Cons
After a few months of downloading and seeding files, It became slower and slower.. It never seed and when I download new stuffs the speed was terrible.. 10kb per second!!! It wasnt utorrent, but rather my isp was blocking it as it turned out..
Summary
Im going to install it again after I get a new internet subscription.
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"Fantastic Product!!!!!!!!!!"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
Works very fast.
Cons
Nothing bad to say.
Summary
I have been using for over 5 years and have had no problems. I also have the phone app.
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"best torrent download utility"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
I have been using it for years! Small and powerful! A lot of features and, yet, easy to use!
Cons
None that i have found!
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"Not Worth the Price"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
I've been a loyal fan of Utorrent for years, thanks to the simplicity it claims to aim for ("a very tiny bitTorrent client"). But today I finally acquiesced to the constant notifications badgering me to install yet another update, and I am incredibly disappointed.
Cons
When it presented the tic boxes for me to sign the User Agreement - yet again - it had tic boxes pre-checked to accept things I did not elect, that have nothing to do with the application I'm trying to continue using:
1) a UTorrent toolbar
2) a switch from my default Search provider to a UTorrent one
Things which are so blatantly needless and universally undesired that they can only be panned off on users by unscrupulous means.
I de-selected three check boxes. I then realized that the last box was actually for the User Agreement, so I re-checked it. Upon doing so, the two above automatically re-checked themselves. I unchecked them again, leaving only the last box checked.Summary
Unfortunately, the next time I opened my browser there was a uTorrent toolbar taking up the top of the screen and thanking me for installing it. I spent the next while manually uninstalling it from every web browser I have on my machine, including those that I rarely use.
Utorrent has no right to the claim that it's a light application when it's laden down with mandatory, insidious, bloatware. This is not free software. Just because the price isn't in dollars, doesn't mean it's not a price. One that many, like myself, are less willing to pay than an honest dollar.
On a lesser point, changing the entire interface with every update is not necessarily an asset, either. Simplicity means function, dependability, and no unwarranted baggage. Remember that, or prepare to move over for the next developers who do. -
"Installs malware! Avoid!"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
None at all, avoid!
Cons
Installs malware, browser hijackers & unwanted toolbars in all your browsers. No way to opt out. Even if you have read every single line and unchecked all additional add-ons, it will install them anyway - they have admitted it. Very difficult to remove all components of this sneaky malicious program. Consider this software a threat to your computer security. Should not be allowed on CNET.
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"Choice for novices, intermediate, and advanced users"
Version: uTorrent 3.2.2
Pros
good, clean, and ad-free torrent client with low system requirements
Cons
Privacy concerns
Summary
The uTorrent executable adds a directory and some option information to your PC, but it is still small enough to run off an old USB key. The memory footprint for uTorrent is very small, and system resources are barely touched. Our testers found that IP phones were difficult to use with a torrent, but uTorrent's simple button interface makes it easy to pause downloading.
The most difficult aspect of using a torrent client is finding the torrents, but included are both a torrent search bar that links to MiniNova 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 or two each. A speed guide helps you test your ports and adjust system settings for optimal performance.
Even though uTorrent is now owned by BitTorrent, there haven't been many noticeable drawbacks, if any. Some tried-and-true BitTorrent options are available to uTorrent users, such as Local Peer Discovery and DHT Network. The latest version also includes Teredo and Ipv6 support, and patches a critical security error that has been discovered in all pre-1.8 builds, making this one of the secure torrent clients around. Throw in all the other features, and that should make it the torrent program of choice for novices, intermediate, and advanced users.
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