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uTorrent portable

A portable version of uTorrent may come in handy when you’re with friends, at school, or at work. It will fit perfectly on every usb-stick, Ipod, mobile phone, or any other device that is recognized a “removable disk”.

utorrent portableSetting up a portable uTorrent is easy.

1. Download the latest standalone version, and copy it onto your datastick.

2. Create an empty datafile with notepad or any other text editor, and name it settings.dat

3. Place the settings.dat file in the same folder on your portable disk as uTorrent.

4. Run uTorrent from your portable drive and confugure the options and preferences.

Now you’re ready to go. You can start downloading at school, and finish at home. And the good thing is that you don’t need to install uTorrent or another BitTorrent client, just a USB-port, that’s all you need.

right click to adjust bandwidth settingsIf you’re planning to use uTorrent on different computers with different bandwidth settings, make sure that you set the maximum upload speed to 90% of the available upload speed to guarantee fast download speeds.

Tip: An easy way to adjust the up- and download speeds is by rightclicking the uTorrent icon in the taskbar.

Other useful (for torrenting) portable applications are:

VLC media player: A bunch of codecs are included in this great media player, so you don’t have to install the latest codect on every computer you’re working on.
7-zip: Some torrents might be archived. 7-zip extracts .zip, rar, and other archives.

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  • Yatti

    Considered at school… Network is 2 risk-e.. Very unstable\crap speeds for browsing is it is but good to know its out…..

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  • sam

    u fucking suck

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  • emgee

    What if the USB stick gets different driveletters at home and at school/work/a firends computer? I assume you mean that one should use the USB stick itself as the download target, since you can’t resume at home otherways.

    Mike

  • KJ

    won’t work with firewalls

  • w305gh7

    Try port 20 or 21 or do a port scan for open ones.

  • Luis Tamayo

    I had problems when i tried to continue downloading the torrent because the drive letter assigned to the usb stick was different from one PC to another. I guess something is missing in the instructions given, and creating a blank settings.dat file isn’t enough. I think that the file resume.dat also must be modified in order to inform utorrent the drive and directory where the files are being downloaded. Isn’ it?

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  • David

    Why doesn’t someone create a simple short script that would updated the download drive location to the one that computer assigns to the USB drive once inserted into the socket? This could be added to the Portable uTorrent software being open source.

    I’m sure it would be something simple like reading a drive allocation table, and making the drive a variable in the actual program that would be based on the indicator of the allocation table for the USB key. Give the key a name that would be read every time it was plugged in….

    If I remember correctly uTorrent was written in C++, so this should be relatively easy to do.

    If I was properly educated in such matter’s and had the time for it I would do it, but I’m neither unfortunately.

  • sam

    hi,
    thanks a lot. its working. the only problem is while using in the university it is not using the max bandwidth while my university is providing.

    thanks once again…..

  • Paegan

    I think i figured out the drive/file path issue. after copying/making the settings.dat in the program folder run utorrent and go to the preferences (ctrl+p). Under the Downloads section, set the path you want to save your downloads relative to the program executable, preferably in the same folder eg. I made a “Incoming” folder and a “Complete” folder in the same folder as utorrent.exe & settings.dat. The path I used in the settings in utorrent was “.\Incoming” and “.\Completed”. Seems to be working so far, tried it on a couple machines and all seems hunky dory. On a side note I tried similar settings with emule & emule plus and it seems to work with that as well but that required a little more fiddling :D. I hope this helps some1 out.

  • amichi

    works fine

  • Si

    all of you who it didn’t work for probably didn’t set uTorrrent to save your files on the portable devise as well as run from it.

  • jimmers

    Does bittorrent have to be installed on the host computer for the usb utorrent to work?

    Maybe I could just uninstall bittorrent from one of my computers to test it.

  • Batavier

    Windows firewall @ work blocks uTorrent. :(

    Don’t have admin rights and windows has been changed so you can’t even use command console or configuration screen applications.

  • rockerzen

    since the utorrent is portable, can the downloaded file is portable?
    for example, I download a file has 50% completed download at home. Then, I stop.
    So, I continue to download another 50% at the office.
    where and how can I put the *.torrent file and the downloaded file?
    Which part of the removable drive?
    What are the settings?

  • levi

    great! thanks!

  • Gjeto

    Work like a charm using 1.7.7. Use the .\ in all the paths in uTorrent settings. In my uTorrent folder on my stick, the folder structure look like this:

    AutoLoadTorrents
    Completed
    -> TorrentFiles
    Incoming
    -> TorrentFiles

    But now I have to buy a new memory stick!

  • Peter

    Thanks! This was just what I needed.

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  • northstar

    Good BitTorrent client

    -> BitTorrent 6.0.3
    http://www.portableshare.com/BitTorrent-Portable.html

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  • Philo

    This is great and all, but it still leaves traces of it being on the computer in C:/Documents and Setting/%USER%/Local Settings/Utorrent/ and its not dificult to just delete such file, but it doesnt fool IT guys at work and they have it in for me… guess il have to lay low for a while then.

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  • iomoga

    Thank you for the tip, works fine for me.

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