µTorrent 2.2.1 Build 25203

Rated 30/50 by aking80 at Dec 4, 2008

Talking rubbish? Obviously you don't know yourself. This is an alpha people, if you give this 5 stars you are an idiot. This version particularly is not suitable for general use!

Rated 50/50 by FileTracker at Dec 5, 2008

Great Alpha

Rated 50/50 by XeNdO at Dec 6, 2008

uTorrent has been die Scheiße unt has been for years. its small (pico even) its lite on resources, updates often and easily, always works, etc. rave, drool. btw, i like this little proggie and highly recommend it. @mel this is not the forum for spamvertising.

Rated 50/50 by analphatester at Dec 7, 2008

analphatester Xmas gift for all utorrent users of the world no more eating 90% of CPU how? marked utp.log and sockets.log az read only and use CPU 2 or 4 % tada

Rated 50/50 by keiichi999 at Dec 8, 2008

protip about the CPU high usage: ALPHA VERSION

Rated 40/50 by aking80 at Dec 22, 2008

Did I hit a nerve Pfurri? Rather than being a gay little fanboy maybe you should admit the faults of programs rather than kissing its a** so blindly. Yes the STABLE version is the best torrent client out there but these are, I repeat, NOT FOR GENERAL USE. Maybe if you actually followed the progress on the forums you would quit trolling and make a relevant comment.

Rated 50/50 by khagaroth at Dec 22, 2008

The CPU usage isn't because it's alpha, it's because some stupid moron is uploading debug builds that are supposed to be used only for a few minutes at most, and only by users that were asked to run them by the developers, because they contain code that logs detailed info about each and every packed sent or received by utorrent. You don't have to be a genius to figure out this will completely kill your processor no matter how powerfull it is. To top it, at the end of the download, the log files will be probably bigger than the files you downloaded.

Rated 50/50 by Daddy_Spank at Dec 23, 2008

A LOT of programmers have A LOT to learn from this program.... while most other torrent programs are 10-25MB this one is about 275KB. I wish all programs were like this...

Rated 50/50 by jotte_ct at Dec 25, 2008

I'm giving the product a 5 just because it's a small great torrent program. But this alpha release doesn't work for me: after few seconds will stop responding, so back to a stable version...

Rated 20/50 by tntoak at Dec 28, 2008

While uTorrent is by far my preferred torrent client, I have to give this build a low score. As soon as I installed it, I ran into issues where my torrents would quickly run up to about 20% of my bandwidth, then drop all the way down to 5-12 kBps and stay there. It also made my browser and computer completely non-responsive, most likely due to the debug code mentioned before. I reinstalled the 1.8.1 release, and was instantly back up to my normal transfer speeds.

Rated 10/50 by bigmama at Dec 28, 2008

So if it doesn't work why do you rate it 5??? Another crap. Use azureus!

Rated 10/50 by elopez17 at Dec 29, 2008

I know is ALPHA but I have the same issue as tntoak

Rated 50/50 by Virtual_ManPL at Dec 29, 2008

@ bigmama - remember its ALPHA version only dedicated for TESTERS... and Vuze (old Azureus) is too slow and too memory eating because based on Java... whats I need is fast download and lightweight application uTorrent is answer for this ;)

Rated 50/50 by keiichi999 at Dec 29, 2008

if the paranoid claims about utorrent were true, would have already been proven for some time, we have security specialists and anyone has access to programs such as Wireshark to analyze traffic ... utorrent is the best torrent program simply because it is lightweight and practical, I see no need to be charging a Java virtual machine just to download torrents, Vuze is very slow and worse - still has not some functions of utorrent, for example, utorrent rename the extensions of the incomplete files to .! ut, Vuze don't! LOL JAVA

Rated 10/50 by djshamrock at Dec 31, 2008

Doesn't work with Vista SP2 beta. But I use Usenext anyways. Way better than torrents and download at true speeds if you pay extra. If I have to torrent I use Bitcommet. Fast.

Rated 40/50 by mahlerscom at Jan 22, 2009

uTorrent is as it is written up to be. Lightweight on system resources BUT the biggest complaint I have is the following: When in the taskbar of Windows Vista, it tends to stay there and neither left nor right mouse click(s) can get it begone, not even the Task Manager fully does this. Although it seems UTorrent is gone, in fact, according to Vista, uTorrent still runs and a "new" start is non comprende. This occurs when (other than security software) only uTorrent is running or another instance of a program of varying size is running as well. Other than that, you will find that you can selectively choose which files within files you want, you can pick and choose. You can read easily just what is coming "in the pipeline". The interface is self explanatory and the author has really left nothing out. It is not a resource hog at all. Yet again, the inability to shut down uTorrent simply by right clicking (at random this happens) is frustrating, requiring a reboot if you truly seek to utilize uTorrent as the author perhaps intends. -W. K. Mahler, Mahlers.Com

Rated 50/50 by roj at Feb 5, 2009

Kicks the CRAP out of that bloated Java garbage known as Fuze. Did I mention it kicks the crap out of it? It kicks the crap out of it. On a BAD day. FIVE stars.

Rated 50/50 by bgronas at Feb 6, 2009

Don't bother developing for Vista Vista will die immediately after Windows 7 is released, and if anyone still uses Vista in July this year it's a world sensation

Rated 30/50 by emanresU deriseD at Feb 7, 2009

I've almost become a uTorrent convert. There are still some things I prefer about Vuze, and some things that are easier (or only possible) with Vuze (e.g. automatically having certain torrents stop once complete, automatically saving torrents of a certain label in desired folders, not needing to keep all the .torrent files to seed, being able to prioritize the download of certain file extensions, etc.). But Vuze's startup and shutdown times--which are measured in eons--annoy the hell out of me. And (Vuze) using well over 100 MB is pretty ridiculous as well. Edit: Bah... After a week of using uTorrent, I'm going back to Vuze. There's just no comparison in terms of power. Vuze is a hog but it makes it so much easier to handle my files. In Vuze, I can simply assign a category, and have files saved where I want, and control how they are seeded. I can share a file between Vuze and PeerGuardian, wheras uTorrent has only a lame IP filter implementation. And Vuze lets me use the automatic upload speed feature when I'm downloading, but not seeding, whereas uTorrent keeps it on all the time. And so on, and on... No comparison. I'll deal with the annoying startup/shutdown times.

Rated 50/50 by MickyFoley at Feb 16, 2009

Who the hell writes BETA to an ALPHA application? Anyways, here the whole changelog (who prefers to read): -- 2009-02-13: Version 1.9 (build 14589) - Change: optimize torrent generator to move the largest file to the front of the torrent - Change: support TB, PB, and EB sizes in UI - Feature: language selector and downloader before installer - Change: show revision number in HTTP user agent --- 2009-02-04: Version 1.9 (build 14470) - Feature: url bundling (from 1.8.2) - Fix: duplicate search engines are no longer added to the list - Fix: don't process SYN packets on existing uTP connections - Fix: uTP congestion control fix - Change: Translation initialization - Change: 'h' peer flag for connections via hole-punching --- 2008-12-24: Version 1.9 (build 13910) - Fix: never 'upload_only' in superseeding mode - Fix: total download byte counters --- 2008-12-20: Version 1.9 (build 13885) - Feature: NAT hole-punching (for uTP only) - Feature: account for uTP overhead when net.calc_overhead is true - Feature: Open URL in Browser for torrents - Feature: Right click menu in RSS history - Change: default net.calc_overhead to true - Change: Red RSS icon for broken feeds - Change: Bring back RSS icons for new and previously downloaded items - Change: Use feed name as label to torrents downloaded via RSS - Change: RSS dialog subscription wording - Change: URL column in RSS history - Change: Tweak RSS episode parser to better handle multi-episode feed items - Fix: uTP compatibility with 1.8.1 --- 2008-12-02: Version 1.9 (build 13582) - Change: add independent TCP and uTP, and queue length stats to Statistics dialog - Fix: another fix to trackers stuck in "updating..." - Fix: PEX address parsing bug - Fix: New Download message from RSS feed --- 2008-12-01: Version 1.9 (build 13559) - Fix: TCP connection queue when using uTP (fixed trackers stuck in "updating...") - Fix: re-connecting too quickly to peers when using uTP - Fix: crash/corrupt text with Advanc