Features of uTorrent

uTorrent includes everything you would expect from a complete, reliable torrent downloader: highly detailed stats, support for RSS feeds, automatic shutdown, download scheduler and more. There are a couple things that uTorrent is missing though: a full torrent search tool and a built-in player to preview your downloads.

uTorrent 3 lets you play media in streaming as you download, rate and comment torrent files, drag and drop files to share them, and disable the UDP tracker.

Ideal for all user levels

Since version 3 uTorrent has sported a totally redesigned interface: more usable, easier to use and a perfect match for uTorrent’s web interface.

Just like previous versions, uTorrent 3 is easy enough to use for everyone no matter what their level of computer expertise is, but it also includes dozens of configuration settings that will please the most tech-savvy users. Also, this new version includes several beginner-oriented guides to make sure everybody can make the most of it.

Light on system resources

After a quick installation process (although there are quite a few prompts to install browser add-ons etc) and a handy built-in speed test to make the initial setting much easier, uTorrent is ready. The program takes up minimal hard drive and PC resources, which enables you to have a good amount of torrents downloading and still be able to use your computer without any lag.

Conclusion

If you're searching for a reliable, fast and lightweight torrent client, look no further: uTorrent is what you need.

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Features

Thanks to a straightforward, uncluttered interface BitTorrent appears as a user friendly torrent client that beginners will feel comfortable with. We particularly appreciated the integrated search box to look for files on the BitTorrent website. Once you’ve found the torrent you want, download it to your PC, open it up inside BitTorrent and let the client do the rest. The speed at which you download will depend on the number of seeds, that is people who have the complete file and are sharing it. The more seeds there are the quicker files will download.

You can set multiple torrent downloads and the downloading speed is fairly quick. It’s easy to configure the client and we suggest choosing the right port and setting upload and download rate limits to avoid hogging your bandwidth. It’s also good to set your downloads by priority to monitor more precisely how your torrents are doing.

Using BitTorrent

The file you want to download is cut up into small segments shared by users, creating what is called a swarm, and does not go through a central server, significantly reducing the bulk of file transfers. The BitTorrent client is actually the first P2P application to use this technology and became immensely popular when it was released. Torrents are considered by online users as a great way to download recently anything from movies to operating systems.

Competition

Compared to the exhaustive Azureus, BitTorrent is very simplistic. It doesn’t provide half as many statistics and doesn’t let you customize the interface. Integrating a search box is a great idea, but it limits searches to the BitTorrent website, not considered the most thorough source by torrent aficionados.

Conclusion

If you’re a newbie to the torrent world, BitTorrent is a good bet. It’s safe, stable and sharp. Associated with the huge database of legal torrents that is the BitTorrent website, it makes for a very rich P2P experience. Advanced users will probably frown upon its lack of options but others should give it a try.

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When using UltraTorrent, you'll be searching popular torrent sites such as Isohunt or Mininova. Results are displayed in a neatly organized table, and can be sorted by different parameters: name, size and seeds – so you can always choose the best option. Double clicking any of these files will immediately launch the downloader in UltraTorrent.

Currently active downloads in UltraTorrent are displayed under the Downloads tab, where you can organize them according to several different filters. If you select a file, you can see detailed information about it in the three panels at the bottom of the interface: General, Trackers and Files.

UltraTorrent is really simple to use and also very light on resources. It works with the most popular torrent search engines, provides quick results, and includes a built-in downloader that does what it is supposed to. With such a collection of handy features, you can just about forgive the fact that the program doesn't really have any extended configuration options.

With UltraTorrent you can search multiple Torrent sites at the same time and start downloading files in no time.

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Just click on the Torrent Turbo Search button and you're instantly presented with a search box and the option of which torrent site you want to search. These include popular torrent finder sites such as isoHunt, BTjunkie, Fenopy, Russia and kickass.

Alternatively, you can also search files on file hosting sites. To do so, click on "Rapidshare & Co" in the appropriate field and type the file name to search. Turbo Torrent Search will index the search results on sites like RapidShare, HotFile and 4Shared.

The only downside of Torrent Turbo Search is that no downloading is possible via the search button. The links provides only refer to the page where the torrent is to be found.

If you're a big torrent downloader and Chrome user, you'll love Torrent Turbo Search.

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The problem I find is that all too often, you wait ages for a torrent to appear and then the minute you've lost interest, someone posts the exact torrent you were waiting for. Ted (Torrent Episode Downloader) provides the perfect solution if you're a TV torrent downloader and it supports all mainstream shows. Simply click "Add Torrent" and the list of possible shows, along with a synopsis and an option whether to download the Next Episode or Last Aired episode is revealed immediately. You can even opt to download only torrents in HD.

Ted uses RSS and Bittorrents to provide you with the latest episodes of your favorite shows. It relies on several torrent sites such as TorrentReactor, Mininova and TVRSS for new episodes of TV shows. To prevent ted automatically downloading fake torrents, you can add keywords for it to look for such as those of your favorite torrent packager or something that fakes usually don't have in their titles. This is also particularly useful if you don't want to keep downloading torrents in the wrong language.

You should note that ted should only be used for downloading those torrents that are legal. Some of the sites it uses - such as The Pirate Bay - have already had some of their content restricted due to legal reasons and so it must be used responsibly.

If you're tired of constantly checking or searching torrent sites for your favorite TV shows, ted provides an automatic stress-free way to do so.

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TorrentForage is a search tool that lets you browse and query several torrent sites at the same time, saving you work, time and extra typing.

The program is very simple both in design and functionality. There are no options, no extra tools, no settings menu: just a list of torrent sites and two text fields to enter the keywords for your search and some optional filters respectively. You can choose which search engines to use and which not, but apart from that, there's basically no other way to tweak the program's behavior.

Global results are presented using a color code, each color representing the results from each separate site, which is a nice way to categorize results. Double clicking on each entry will open your default web browser with the correspondent torrent site. From this moment on, that is, if you really want to download the file, you'll need a torrent client.

TorrentForage offers you an easier, faster way to search for torrent files, but it ends up being too simple. Some extra tools would have been nice.

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TorrentSearch is a small program that uses various sites on the net to gather torrent links. This program has no ads and no popups! It displays torrents from TorrentReactor, isoHunt and TorrentSpy.

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