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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:14:36 +0000

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By: CrashUK

CrashUK — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:07:58 +0000

Some of old versions of uTP in utorrant was slower.. But I can say the lastest version is a lot better.

I run utorrant on my mediacentre 24/7 using webgui..

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KTorrent primero en adoptar el protocolo uTP « Red-Orbita — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:30:06 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:36:33 +0000

@39: For purposes of Network Address Translation a UDP stream is treated as a connection by routers.

Older hardware tends to have problems with number of connections and the packet rate (µTorrents implementation shrinks packet size, this isn’t part of the actual protocol though). Packet rate being what ISP’s complain about, small Russian ISP’s anyway.

By: Joker_

Joker_ — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:20:52 +0000

@36

“If your router messes up, well, that’s just a shitty router that can’t handle many open connections at once.”

uTP runs over UDP. There is no such concept as “open connection” in UDP communication. You might want rephrase your comment because obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.

By: Super Torrent Freaky

Super Torrent Freaky — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:07:12 +0000

I upgraded from uTorrent 1.8.4 to 2.0.2 not too long ago and am happy I did. For some reason TCP transfers were always slow, usually around one twelfth of what I pay for. uTP completely solved my speed issues. Instead of a file downloading in four days, it arrives in four hours.

It is interesting that some people see the opposite. My guess is that it probably has something to do with differences in how various ISP’s operate. The fact that uTP doesn’t work well for some folks just isn’t a good enough reason to dismiss it out of hand, since it clearly works quite well for others. Besides, it’s not like it isn’t going to improve with time. Hopefully more programmers will look at implementing it into their clients as well. If you don’t like it, simply turn it off. Problem solved.

By: thecalmcritic

thecalmcritic — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:43:37 +0000

More importantly let’s have our ktorrent users to come in and report on this latest version’s performance/issues and so forth with uTP.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:18:08 +0000

@34

You are aware that you can simply turn it off, correct? Have you ever actually used it, or are you really just going off what you’ve “heard” it does? I’ve seen some info that is blatantly wrong posted in comments on this site, such as the one above about UDP trackers somehow having something to do with uTP. I have a windows machine in the other room running utorrent with uTP turned on and it runs perfectly well. If your router messes up, well, that’s just a shitty router that can’t handle many open connections at once.

By: Manja

Manja — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:09:35 +0000

Excellent news! Ever since I switched to linux I’vee been looking for a nice BitTorrent client similar to uTorrent and I found KTorrent simply the best of them all. i fact I like it even more than uTorrent now. And it is great to hear they have also added support for uTP. Rock on KTorrent developers!

By: Anon1000

Anon1000 — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:46:40 +0000

@ 27 Soundwave:
more bandwidth -> ya right and the throttling is there just for laughs!!
easier on network devices -> that’s why i heard that many, many routers died using uTP!!
The basic idea of uTP might not be bad, but i do not think the implementation is ideal and neither the fact they try to spread it in this form