uTorrent?

[HeyGuy]

<p>Has anyone used uTorrent? If so any knowledge about it? I have been using bittoorrent for over a year but just downloaded utorrent. It seems to work pretty fast, but wanted to know if anyone has used it, any problems, is it safe or whatever else? Thanks in advance</p>

[TheRealEddie]

it works great. Small footprint and does the job. <img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smoke.gif" /><br />

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by TheRealEddie on 11-13-06 @ 10:55 PM</span>

[romey79]

I've been using it for some time now, and I have no complaints.&nbsp; I used to use Azureus, ut it's Java based, and is a real resource hog.

[Sheeplovr]

<p>Azureus is where it's at</p><p><img width="370" height="292" border="0" src="http://www.dannesdjur.com/bilder/dendrobates_azureus_1.jpg" />&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

Real Eddie is the best....he's my newest, bestest friend!!!!!!<br />

[RapistWit]

I *think* utorrent allows you to d/l and u/l anonymously. This means a lot to those who have their torrent activity limited by their ISPs. The ISP is unable to choke your bandwith if you use an anonymous torrent manager.

[stinkbud]

<p>I used to use BitComet regularly, but I noticed it is banned on several trackers. uTorrent is simple to use, it is simple to make sure your ports are forwarded and all trackers accept it.</p><p>AFAIK, anonymous torrenting is possible with peerguardian.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[HeyGuy]

thanks for the help.

[SinA]

<strong>TheRealEddie</strong> wrote:<br />Ive been using it for a while to stay up to date with my favorite radio show since their timeslot sucks for working stiffs like me and it works great. Small footprint and does the job.<br /><p>oooh, what is it?&nbsp; there's no favorite listed on your profile.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>btw- i'm with sheepy. azureus rules.&nbsp; i thought it was too crisp and fancy to be good (stealing music/porn shouldn't seem so polished) but i've been very happy with it.</p>

[suggums]

if there's enough favorable reviews ill give utorrent a shot, but ive been using bitlord for months with no problems<br />

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>I've used UTorrent for almost a year now, and I love it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It's a small footprint, as mentioned previously, and a nice feature (which I'm not sure was previously mentioned or in other software packages) is that you can pick and choose which files you want to download out of a torrent.&nbsp; It works really well if you only want to pull certain episodes or segments out of large torrents.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also - another invaluable resource to have is <strong>PeerGuardian2</strong>.&nbsp; <strong><em>I cannot stress this enough</em></strong>.&nbsp; It's like a secondary firewall, which guards you from known IP ranges of certain companies which may not like you using torrents.</p>

[HeyGuy]

<strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I've used UTorrent for almost a year now, and I love it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It's a small footprint, as mentioned previously, and a nice feature (which I'm not sure was previously mentioned or in other software packages) is that you can pick and choose which files you want to download out of a torrent.&nbsp; It works really well if you only want to pull certain episodes or segments out of large torrents.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font style="background-color: #ccff66">Also - another invaluable resource to have is <strong>PeerGuardian2</strong>.&nbsp; <strong><em>I cannot stress this enough</em></strong>.&nbsp; It's like a secondary firewall, which guards you from known IP ranges of certain companies which may not like you using torrents.</font></p><p>Explain this. What do you mean &quot;known IP Ranges&quot;? and how does peerguardian2 work? Do you just download it and its active or do you need to do something everytime you download a torrent? Where can I get peerguardian2?</p><p>Thanks</p>

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>CampoNJ</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I've used UTorrent for almost a year now, and I love it.</p><p> </p><p>It's a small footprint, as mentioned previously, and a nice feature (which I'm not sure was previously mentioned or in other software packages) is that you can pick and choose which files you want to download out of a torrent. It works really well if you only want to pull certain episodes or segments out of large torrents. </p><p> </p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 102);">Also - another invaluable resource to have is <strong>PeerGuardian2</strong>. <strong><em>I cannot stress this enough</em></strong>. It's like a secondary firewall, which guards you from known IP ranges of certain companies which may not like you using torrents.</font></p><p>Explain this. What do you mean &quot;known IP Ranges&quot;? and how does peerguardian2 work? Do you just download it and its active or do you need to do something everytime you download a torrent? Where can I get peerguardian2?</p><p>Thanks</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PeerGuardian2, once installed and setup the way you want it (whether loading automatically at startup or you start it up) basically blocks p2p connections from sources that are known to be anti-torrent, whether it's the record labels, the RIAA, etc.&nbsp; It also helps block malicious IPs.&nbsp; There's a bunch of hackers who are always adding IPs to the block list.&nbsp; PeerGuardian automatically updates with the new IP list every day.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Google PeerGuardian2, and it'll help.&nbsp;</p>

[DeKrats]

It all depends on the system you use. If you have a lot of resources (ie ram) you should use Azureus. But if you have lest than 1.5 gigs of ram, Utorrent might be better for your needs... I seem to always have hundreds of things in que and azureus cant be beat.<br />