Miniscule BitTorrent Client- uTorrent
 

* 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
* Localized to different languages
* Typical memory use less than 4 MB
* Incredibly small: 94 KB


http://www.utorrent.com/

I saw a review for this on digg.com a few days ago, a guy who reviewed a bunch of clients put this at the top of the list. I've only been using it for a few days, but I totally agree - so far it's the best client I've used.

this is gonna sound retarded but what's a little retardation between friends, eh?

here goes...

if i have some files dling, switching clients midstream wouldn't have any affect on them will it? Long as i use the same folder locations, etc.?

right?

It should work. I saw this a while ago. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic....light=resuming

Whoot! :cheer:

occasionally resuming a torrent w/a new client can erase everything d/l'd so far if the new torrent creates (or in this case re-creates) a new folder and new files with the same name. it could overwrite your partials w/zero-bit files. to prevent this possibility i stop the download, cut and paste the partially completed original folder to a new location, resume the d/l with the new client creating it's new (and bit-less) folder, then stop the d/l once more. next, i move the original folder back to the original location, and let explorer overwrite the bit-less files with my partially-completed saved ones.

a final restart gets things back to normal. the client checks for the completion-percentage (10, 50, 90%-whatever) and continues from there with the partial files intact, as if nothing had happened.

this works well with corrupted clients that need to be re-installed during a download.

- js.

thanx for the tip JS.

decided to hold steady til done then i'll try this (feeling a bit lazy and wimpy this weekend :D)

The latest version has major upgrades.

The long awaited 1.2 is here. Along with a slew of improvements, the most notable new feature is Mainline compatible DHT (Trackerless) support. The version was bumped from 1.1.7.2 to 1.2 due to the significance of the changes. Note however that Unicode is not yet supported, but it will be available soon. Also, the changes for the unofficial 1.1.8.RC1 version are listed below. You can get it from the download section.


--- 2005-11-09: Version 1.2 (build 328)
- Feature: Remember last tracker url in create tracker window
- Fix: Move completed job was buggy
- Fix: Create multifile torrent was buggy

--- 2005-11-09: Version 1.2 (build 326)
- Feature: Mainline compatible DHT
- Feature: Show tracker url in list.
- Feature: Configurable flags (flags.conf / flags.bmp)
- Feature: Resolve countries using ip->country online database.
- Feature: Autodetect write queue size.
- Feature: Ability to relocate torrents.
- Feature: Show amount of waste bytes.
- Feature: Ability to specify directory where to save with the /directory command line option.
- Feature: Parse the 'nodes' attribute in a torrent.
- Feature: Added remaining column
- Feature: Added Ctrl-C/Ctrl-A in logger window
- Fix: Tracker ip not working.
- Fix: Search box size was limited.
- Fix: Done column wasn't sortable.
- Change: Use less memory for torrents with lots of files.
- Fix: Support moving complete torrents across file systems.
- Fix: Use a little bit less memory in the network code.
- Fix: Use closesocket instead of close when closing ipblocked sockets.
- Fix: >4GB torrents were created incorrectly.
- Fix: Better recovery if resume.dat is missing/damaged.
- Change: Changed default value of flush_files to true.
- Change: New flags.
- Fix: Ignore directories in the autoload dir.
- Change: Show a message if the user is adding a duplicate torrent.
- Fix: Don't rotate trackers in main list
- Change: *.cpl is an unsafe file
- Fix: fixed a status bar flicker issue when going into a menu
- Fix: Prevent listen error if you start up µTorrent immediately after closing it.

http://www.utorrent.com/download/1.2/utorrent.exe

been running uTorrent for a few days now and i like it too. i think it uses less resources than abc, and it shuts down when i ask it to. abc required ctrl-alt-delete to fully close, on this xp box anyway. nice thread napho.

- js.

Latest version has an RSS feed if anyone wants that.

http://www.utorrent.com/download/bet...-build-377.exe

utorrent 1.5 is out by the way, better looking interface and ecryption.

anyone know any good tweaks for speed/security/overall performance for this client???I have messed around with it a little I was maybe hoping that someone had some better ones than I have been able to come up with. Thanx

I lowered the peer disconnect interval to 60 and increased the max half open to 800 and added diskio read and write queue and cache of 16384 to protect the hard drive (if it's really needed). 2000 max connections allowed , too many will just slow you down. Not really much to do with uTorrent. It either works well or it doesn't.