uTorrent a Powerful Bittorrent Client to download the files today
I was using Bitcomet for a long time but I do not like the new versions as they are getting more commercial and blocking the speed of the download purposefully (I guess so)
So compared to any other Bittorrent client utorrent is one of the best
Features of uTorrent
- uTorrent is lightweight
- uTorrent does not consume too much resources of your computer like Limewire
- More options than other Bit Torrent client
You all know what is BitTorrent if you do not know you can read it in Wikipedia torrent page
So you have found a website to download music, movies, audio, software or games or anything interests you. The next step is to download the torrent to your computer.
Then download uTorrent or anything of your choice
Open uTorrent and you will see the following interface
Open the downloaded file
I have downloaded a torrent file to download Firefox 3.0 (This is legal because you can share Firefox)
Open the file and see the description below inside the image
First choose the location you want to download the file
Give it a label, now we are downloading only one file but soon or later you will have 100’s of the files queued in Utorrent, It will be hard for you to find the ones you are looking for if you have no lable. Give it labels like “Browser”
The other settings are default setting that you do not need to touch
If you want the file download to start later uncheck “Start Torrent”
Sometime your download bunch will have more than 2 files, if you do not want to download all the files just uncheck the file list
If you go to advanced Tab you will see the Image as below
This is also called torrent properties setting
The websites are the ones that has the trackers (to make it easy to understand – the websites see how many people are sharing (Seeding) the file, how many are downloading etc. The more trackers you have, the more speed you get to download the file
If you do not any just leave everything to default
You can set the internet speed for each torrent file you download, so your normal work does not get affected
If you click on the advanced tab on top you will get the window as shown below
You can automatically run specific programs when the download completes such as Media Player or Document viewer etc..
Then click OK to start the download
Details of uTorrents
The rest is very much self explanatory
Seeders: Seeders are the ones that have the full file in their computer
Peers or Leechers are the one that download the files from the seeders
Once you finish the download, you computer will automatically upload the files to some Leechers, You will be a seeder then
You can stop uploading the files by clicking on the stop button at the top
You can pause a download and start it again
You can close the application and start the download later
You can shutdown your computer and then start the application to download the paused download. You will not loose any downloaded portion of it. This is Good right? 🙂
More screen shots to help you know more about utorrent
When you click on the Peers Tab, you can see all the people who is seeding and downloading the file
Again Here you can select which file to download pause or stop by rght clicking on the file name
You can see the progress of the each file
I have not done this much, I always leave it to default
So you can set the preference here
This is very important and very useful to enjoy th complete benefit of uTorrent
If you want any advanced help, you can visit their website forum
You can Download uTorrent Free here
If you have any questions or suggestion, please post a comment
Dave 🙂