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Fnoord · 2018-11-07 21:15:32+00:00

By the same programmer as uTorrent.

smegel | karma 2278 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2017-08-08 05:37:33+00:00

Thanks I haven't hear of that. And it is written in C++ which is nice.

Is it considered the spiritual successor to the original uTorrent?

userbinator | karma 78987 | avg karma 4.37 · | 2021-09-12 19:01:29

All sources I've found indicate that uTorrent was written in C++, but perhaps its author was a bit more mindful of unnecessary abstraction and the like.

DoubleCluster | karma 263 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2013-01-21 19:20:53+00:00

From Wikipedia, uTorrent: > Although originally developed by Ludvig Strigeus, since December 7, 2006, the code is owned and maintained by BitTorrent, Inc.

leyo1022 | karma -1 | avg karma -0.5 · | 2020-08-07 07:53:52

utorrent works.

leyo1022 | karma -1 | avg karma -0.5 · | 2020-08-07 07:54:09+00:00

utorrent works.

MentaLTorrent | karma 6 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2013-07-31 23:17:03+00:00

I'm the thread starter from RZ. The reason I mention uTorrent is because the source code was also in the BitTorrent repository for the company including all other source materials and more (Websites/Database user/passwords and more).

thanks.

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shp0ngle | karma 6104 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2018-06-19 14:42:04+00:00

uTorrent is owned by BitTorrent company

ordinary | karma 1255 | avg karma 3.18 · | 2011-09-14 12:24:30+00:00

I'm pretty sure uTorrent was never open source. The mainline client was, though.

techaddict009 | karma 1373 | avg karma 1.48 · | 2015-03-06 14:43:46

Any better alternative to uTorrent? I am using it since years. Bittorrent seems just clone of it with different color scheme.

e12e | karma 13838 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2013-10-27 07:58:47

Always nice to have a simple alternative now that uTorrent is dead (well, as the product/app it once was anyway).

Looking briefly at the code, it appears to be c++ (which is fine) -- but also entirely without tests? Or did I miss something?

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steeve | karma 2057 | avg karma 3.5 · | 2013-10-27 14:15:25

I'm using rasterbar's libtorrent for a project of mine and I find it already downloads as fast as uTorrent (likely because it implements uTP).

rinchik | karma 296 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2019-10-21 14:42:11

latest uTorrent is just a webapp that streams torrents, there are also a bunch of others.

hsjoberg | karma 12 | avg karma 0.71 · | 2018-01-02 17:03:58

The guy is who made utorrent also works for spotify

userbinator | karma 78987 | avg karma 4.37 · | 2022-03-02 20:26:52

uTorrent is definitely NOT Java --- the binary itself is a few orders of magnitude smaller than a JVM! You might be thinking of Azureus (since renamed Vuze)?

lossolo | karma 2553 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2016-07-05 20:28:16+00:00

It's not accurate. Widely adopted client before uTorrent was Azureus and it was written in Java.

neilsimp1 | karma 633 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2018-05-29 12:30:28

I came hear to say this. uTorrent was great for a number of years, but I'm now using qBitTorrent on both Windows and Linux.

There's a lot of great features, too, such as renaming files before starting the download.

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blueskin_ | karma 1344 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2015-03-06 11:38:39+00:00

BitTorrent (the client) is based on uTorrent's codebase as they are owned by the same company. Both can install malware if you're not careful.

maximilian | karma 743 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2010-06-09 03:03:48

I don't have any evidence to back it up, but I think uTorrent has better network code and produces faster downloads. I use despite its slight ugliness compared to transmission.

touristtam | karma 1580 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2016-11-04 15:01:40+00:00

uTorrent was great because it was optimized to be small and fast: a single exe file upx'ed.