uTorrent
uTorrent implements many of the features introduced by much larger clients, but uTorrent retains a very small memory footprint. uTorrent's typical memory usage is less than 6 MB, and the CPU use is low enough for most older systems (as low as 486) to run it. uTorrent is one of the most popular BiTorrent clients for PC users.
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uTorrent (pronounced as 'micro-torrent', 'you-torrent' or 'mu-torrent') is a BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows. uTorrent is included in a single 214 KiB (as of April 2008) executable. It was designed to use as little of the computer's resources as possible while offering a lot of the functionality expected from 'full-featured' clients, such as Azureus and BitComet. - Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled - Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0, and now BitComet 0.63) and peer exchange.
- Resource-Friendly - µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. 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. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 160 KB in size.
- Skinnable and Localized - Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!
- Actively Developed and Improved - The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.
Many users of the BitTorrent network have problems with there speeds so for this we suggest you check out our Zeropaid thread in the forums on how to Improve Your BitTorrent Download Speeds. Once you get this setup why not check our torrent tracker sites for the latest in the best BitTorrent sites for the latest downloads. Once your good, go and Get BitTorrent News to catch up with everthing. Some of the more notable features present in uTorrent include: - Protocol Encryption
- Peer Exchange
- Unicode support
- UPnP support (Windows XP only)
- Super-seeding
- RSS Broadcatching/Toolbar Button
- Trackerless BitTorrent support using DHT (Distributed Hash Table)
- Configurable bandwidth scheduler
- Customizable search bar and icons
- Localized to different languages
- Multiple simultaneous downloads
- Smart bandwidth usage
- File level priorities
- Configurable bandwidth scheduling
- Global and per-torrent speed limiting
- Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
- UPnP support (WinXP only)
- Supports popular protocol extensions
- Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
- Localized to different languages
- Typical memory use less than 6 MB
- Incredibly small: 155 KB
What is Peer Exchange? - Peer exchange (PEX) is another method to gather peers for BitTorrent in addition to trackers and DHT. Peer exchange checks with other peers to see if they know of any other peers. Peer Exchange has been introduced with uTorrent 1.5 to reduce the load on trackers and the Distributed database since peers only need them as an initial source of peers and then only depend on other peers supporting PEX. Of course that doesn't mean they don't report back to the tracker, but uTorrent peers only do it at the max-interval thus minimizing the load. What is Protocol Encryption? - Protocol encryption (PE), Message stream encryption (MSE), or Protocol header encrypt are features of some BitTorrent clients that attempt to make BitTorrent traffic hard to throttle. Some ISPs throttle BitTorrent traffic because it makes up a large proportion of total traffic and they don't want to spend money buying extra capacity. Instead, ISPs spend money on hardware designed to look for BitTorrent traffic and slow them down. Encryption makes BitTorrent traffic harder to detect and therefore harder to throttle. It is not designed to provide anonymity
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