FYI, I’m one of the millions torrent users. Since 3 years I have use and extensively test various type of torrent client software (fact: do you know that there are 40++ torrent client out there?). I have come to test several popular client like; BitTorrent(the Brain Cohem, original one), BitTornado, Shadow Client, BitComet and Azureus… but finally I found one that I really fell in love… I’m stick with this client and never ever considered to change to another, even not checking their other websites anymore.
It’s called µTorrent (miuTorrent) but it’s widely pronounced “(u)youTorrent” since the official website was www.utorrent.com
Unlike the memory sucker Azureus, µTorrent was light weight running silently in the background. µTorrent consume around 5~10MB only while Azureus eat up to 30~50MB of RAM to run, plus extra for Java Virtual Machine sometimes suck until 125MB of RAM. I’m not sure what are these application doing, the download speed didn’t boost much with that such memory cost.
Some interesting fact about µTorrent
- Lightweight; resource friendly, consume only 5 to 6 MB of memory,
- Micro-Sized; total application file just 170KB (you can imagine how long it takes to download),
- Feture Filled; RSS auto download, trackerless (DHT), peer exchange and protocol encryption, skinnable… too much to say
Opps, did I write too much jargon here? below are the simple explaination
resource friendly - save your PC RAM, resource friendly application lets your PC runs faster while opening several application at once.
rss auto download - point some RSS link and lets the appliacation automatically download the latest torrent release
trackerless - sometimes the tarcker server goes down, but with trackerless support, each peer will act like tracker, which means no dead torrent.
peer exchange - lets client distribute the peers among peers instead of tracker
protocol encryption - the most handy one, don’t tell your ISP that you are using torrent, because they are capping your bandwidth.
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