There are two flavours: the stripped-back Vuze Leap, and the fully fledged Vuze Plus. Both offer torrent download, media playback and support for magnet file links, but Vuze Plus adds integrated virus protection and the ability to preview media files. One of Vuze's key selling points is its interface, which slices through jargon and makes even the more advanced features accessible to new users.
Vuze also offers bandwidth limiting, IP filtering, and all the other features you'd expect from a robust torrent client. Definitely one of the first options to consider. Read our full Vuze review. Deluge has been around forever, and it can be as simple or as powerful as you want it to be, making it one of the most versatile free torrent clients out there. That's because it's extendable via plug-ins, which effectively enable you to build your own personalised version of Deluge.
Fancy something that resembles uTorrent without the unwanted software? No problem. Want to add alphabetical downloading, move downloaded files to specific directories according to the file type, adjust speed according to network conditions, create pretty graphs, schedule everything, integrate with Chrome or Firefox, or batch-rename downloads?
That's not a problem either. Read our full Deluge review. It's attracted some criticism over the years, however: it's ad-supported and many users argue that the most recent versions are a little too heavy on the advertising and bundled software front.
Make sure you read each step of the installer carefully and uncheck any software you don't want to install. That aside, uTorrent is useful, effective and doesn't gobble up too much of your system's resources: the entire app mainly runs in your web browser. Although it isn't the official BitTorrent app, it's been maintained by BitTorrent for the last decade. It's worth noting that uTorrent has a record of security problems, the most recent of which had the potential to let hackers control key functions of the client and spy on users' downloads.
BitTorrent has since released a patch for the vulnerability. Read our full uTorrent review. You might be wondering why BitTorrent has its own torrent client when it also maintains uTorrent — especially when the BitTorrent app is a rebranded version of uTorrent. Are you still following us? However, while the apps are functionally identical there are a few key differences: BitTorrent offers web-based seeding, commenting and reviewing, and you may find that the BitTorrent client is welcomed by private trackers that don't like uTorrent.
It's very simple to use as well, and could be a good choice if you're new to torrenting and want a client that will give you an easy introduction. Read our full BitTorrent review. Daryl had been freelancing for 3 years before joining TechRadar, now reporting on everything software-related. If you have a story about an updated app or one that's about to launch, drop him a line. North America. Read on for our deeper dive into the product.
There are a couple things that uTorrent is missing though: a full torrent search tool and a built-in player to preview your downloads. 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. 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. Once you install uTorrent on your computer with the default settings, it will automatically launch whenever you access a torrent file on the Internet.
Locate a torrent file on the Web, and click on it to download the. Note: you should only download content that is legally available to you. Fossbytes maintains a list of legally available torrents.
There are many alternatives to uTorrent available. At some point, you may decide that you no longer want uTorrent installed on your computer. If so, rest assured that it is easy to uninstall uTorrent. For Windows users, simply …. Sometimes, uTorrent downloads very slowly, and that can be frustrating. This is usually due to slow network connections or congestion.
Some public WiFi providers block or rate-limit torrent access, which can contribute to the problem. Also, uTorrent sometimes requires a lot of CPU power and bandwidth, and if you have a lot of other applications running and competing for bandwidth, things can really slow down.
Fortunately, there are several options to speed up uTorrent. For more in-depth instructions, take a look at our full guide on how to speed up uTorrent downloads. This adds both new seeds and new peers to your torrent download, and will increase uTorrent download speed in most cases.
Bittorrent clients rely on peer-to-peer sharing, so finding an option to prevent sharing can be difficult. Mainline DHT short for distributed hash table is an alternative mechanism to trackers that some Bittorrent clients use to find peers for file sharing. To turn this off, go to the General section of the Preferences window under the options Menu.
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