This new gadget for uTorrent allows you to monitor and handle your .torrent downloads from Vista’s sidebar. The gadget works in combination with the uTorrent WebUI, an extension that inspired many people to develop useful and innovative gadgets.
It turns out that the popular hosting company Dreamhost is shutting down any BitTorrent trackers hosted on its servers. In a letter to a customer, a representative of Dreamhost said “BitTorrent is strictly forbidden, both as a client and as a server right now.”
Here’s a roundup of some of the how-to articles that appeared on TorrentFreak over the past few months. Might be useful to some of the new readers.
Configuring your torrent client the right way is important to get the best speeds out of BitTorrent. This simple script calculates the optimal settings for your torrent client to maximize the speed of your BitTorrent downloads.
The script is based on 1c3d0g’s excellent tutorial. The tutorial is written for uTorrent, but most of the other torrent [...]
BitTorrent is the best tool for sharing files but you need to configure your client and your network the right way to get the best out of it. I will list some tips, tricks and guidelines in addition to the “speed up your torrents” and the “speed up bitcomet and uTorrent” posts.
