µTorrent 2.2.1 Build 25203

Rated 50/50 by MarcFou at Aug 14, 2008

I have to confirm what borisf98 said. When upload rate is set to 5kb or lower, your download speed gets throttled. Uploading is what makes downloading work. If everyone set low or near nothing uplod speed, it would take forever to download something. So I agree with the penalty. Besides. Many P2P apps have been doing this for the longest time. Not a new concept. Overall uTorrent proves to be the best client out there. I recently began using the RSS feature and love it.

Rated 10/50 by borisf98 at Aug 14, 2008

New version throttles download speed at very low level. So program is not useful anymore.

Rated 50/50 by ballyhairs at Aug 14, 2008

The best torrent client.

Rated 50/50 by skapig at Aug 14, 2008

Still very slick. Small size. Small footprint. Plenty of functionality. Perhaps we're due for a screen shot from the current version as opposed to 1.3?

Rated 50/50 by Lands at Aug 15, 2008

borisf98 you ****ing leecher. Learn to share you ****ing looser. The best BT client.

Rated 50/50 by payskin at Aug 21, 2008

@Viciously Cold: I'm on a 30/20gbit direct cable connection. I use only public trackers and I don't encrypt the connection. I download 30 to 50 gigabytes a month and seed back appr0x 5-10 times more. I'm doing this using only uTorrent and the best part is, that I don't have to move a finger, uTorrent does it for me automatically via RSS. Oh, I forgot I have fixed IP. :-))) So dude, think about it. Either you're a sad schizophrenic monkey, or simply a troll. If what you're saying were true, a commando would be right outside my door. Better go check it, eh? uTorrent is the best client.

Rated 50/50 by ZenoLabs at Aug 21, 2008

To ViciouslyCold: you can't say a thing without demostrate it. So show us the way they monitor our downloads or shut up.

Rated 10/50 by ViciouslyCold at Aug 21, 2008

only noobs and those who like being monitored use uTorrent anymore. BitTorrent owns uTorrent now and everyone knows BitTorrent monitors their own software so they can report people. Why do you think BitTorrent is so unwilling to tell everyone how they catch people? Because their doing it illegally. They use their own software to monitor those who use it then turn in the ip addresses. all i can say is you best make sure whatever you download is 100% legal and no doubts because if not those uTorrent lovers ip addresses will be turned in. BitTorrent and uTorrent both should be labeled as adware for monitoring user activity.

Rated 50/50 by Prospero424 at Aug 22, 2008

I swear to God, this is the last time I'm going to say this to you "OMG, uTorrent watches what you're transferring" idiots: ANYONE CONNECTED TO THE SAME TRACKER AS YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOWNLOADING NO MATTER WHAT CLIENT YOU USE. And even if there isn't anyone connected to the tracker you have to worry about, your ISP can still see what you're doing unless you're encrypted from end to end, which almost no one using Bittorrent is doing because it's really slow and/or requires a paid encryption service. Don't believe me? Do me a favor: go to the "peers" tab on whatever Bittorrent client you're currently using. See that list of IP addresses of people transferring that same file you are? Now think about that REAL hard. We'll wait. Why in the heck would the MPAA or the RIAA or whoever need to make some deal with uTorrent when all they have to do to collect IPs of people downloading certain files is connect to that same tracker? These STUPID conspiracy theories don't even make basic sense. uTorrent is the best Windows Bittorrent client out there, especially for those looking to keep resource usage low for whatever reason. It's tiny, it's fast, and it's more full-featured than any other client besides Azureus. The RSS feature works great for automating your downloads, some of the newer NAT traversal features are a big help to those who aren't savvy enough to configure their own router, and things like magnet link (URI) capability are slowly making the need to actually download the .torrent file first obsolete. The people still spreading the FUD about uTorrent are invariably either warez kiddies who are too ignorant of the internet they love to know any better or are deliberately lying about it because they're pissed that a lot of trackers are banning the old versions of uTorrent that they've hacked so they can leech and not give anything back.

Rated 40/50 by ShahinD at Aug 22, 2008

Good bittorrent client but does not have all the features that I need. I need advanced scheduling that Utorrent does not have. Non of the bittorent clients have this feature

Rated 40/50 by -Wanted- at Aug 26, 2008

Well said, Prospero424. Well said!

Rated 50/50 by shamas at Aug 26, 2008

uTorrent is my favorite client. I haven't used any other client since I started using uTorrent, which was a long time ago.

Rated 40/50 by Undesired Username at Aug 29, 2008

RE: "ANYONE CONNECTED TO THE SAME TRACKER AS YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOWNLOADING NO MATTER WHAT CLIENT YOU USE." Well, it depends on who or what "YOU" is. Who are "you" to peers? Peers can see your IP address, but what if that IP is dynamic? What if you're on a LAN with 5 or 500 other machines? Who are "you" to them? Now, if uTorrent were to use a GUID that identified your client, even when your IP changed... Then "you" takes on a whole new meaning to anyone who can associate that GUID with your various IP address(es). I use Vuze, so I don't really care either way.

Rated 50/50 by Prospero424 at Sep 1, 2008

Undesired Username: All a theoretical RIAA watchdog needs is your IP address and the time. With this information, they can and will get your identification from your ISP unless you're using a series of anonymous proxy servers (which slows transfers down immensely). 99% of people out there don't even know what that is. Even if your IP is dynamic, the lease and the duration are logged by your ISP, and they WILL release it upon subpoena, or perhaps even simple request. I like Vuze. I used Azureus for years and years, and the plugin ability is fantastic. I just came to the conclusion that all of the functionality I need is contained in uTorrent, it's a bit more efficient, and I like the interface a bit better. To conclude on the RIAA thing: the effort required for a dedicated commercial "watchdog" (hired by the RIAA/MPAA/ESA, etc.) to passively and actively (posting fake torrents, etc.) collect the IPs of pirates not using expensive and/or cumbersome obfuscation methods is trivial no matter how you cut it and no matter what Bittorrent client you're using.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Sep 1, 2008

Vuze? what is that? A utube replacement-lame comparison. GFU undesired userf**. I've always known. Not my fault lames didn't update til recently. azureus and their utube bs fanboys can kiss my ass.

Rated 40/50 by dzjepp at Sep 1, 2008

I have problems running Azureus (Vuze) on Vista SP1 x64, so I switched to uTorrent.

Rated 40/50 by Undesired Username at Sep 1, 2008

No, anomoly (who can't even figure out how to download the MP3 plugin for InfraRecorder), Vuze is the world's most-configurable, flexible, and extensible BitTorrent client, and it runs great on systems made after 1996. @Prospero424: I take your point regarding the RIAA, but that's not what I was addressing. I was responding to the idea that literally any peer could know who "you" were, as in "able to personally identify you and track your activity over a period of time". I am not aware of the accusations made against uTorrent with regard to the RIAA, so I guess my point (even if correct) was off target. In any case, there is still a difference between knowing a WAN IP (which could represent more than one machine), and uTorrent being tied to one specific machine over time.

Rated 50/50 by sorlag at Sep 1, 2008

the best of all torrent apps out there!

Rated 50/50 by rseiler at Sep 11, 2008

madmike, you "appear" to be an idiot, as what you're saying is 100% false. Obviously.

Rated 20/50 by madmike at Sep 11, 2008

Appears to be an RIAA snitch,for those who download stuff without paying serves you right. For this company to sell your soul to gangster type bullys like the RIAA however, shame on you.