I was talking with someone earlier today, and a topic called utorrent was mentioned on the fly. What is it?
I think its probably the best bittorrent client out there. If you don't know what bittorent is: BitTorrent (protocol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's not the best but 1 of the best to me.There are still some other better torrent client out there.Too bad BT in Malaysia has already been throttled
So what does that mean? Like I mentioned, this done in passing and I'd never heard of it before. What is is used for?
It's a P2P (peer to peer) tool used to trade files with each other without going through a third-party server.
and it's not so 'legal' btw (for certain files) to make it simple.. it something u use to download stuff form the internet
No but is offered now as an alternative to a direct server DL which is nice to see. Three tips for utorrent and it is the best torrent client I have used: 1) Always force start 2) Always set bandwidth allocation to "high" 3) Update trackers as often as you can
what's the force start for? I remember I used it once and my file become corrupt. I never use it again since sounds "force"fully
Force start ignores your settings and queue. So it overrides your other DL's and transfers in queue and also files you are seeding. It doesn't force a connection to the seeders
Hmm.. I didn't know that it would override the files you are seeding. If I'm not mistaken, utorrent has a built-in limiter. So that if you do not seed at a particular speed, your downloads are also limited.
Somewhat but if your really in a rush for something force start overrides the settings without changing settings for all the other DL's and seeded files. I find if you don't use it in utorrent sometimes the transfers never start
You could always modify your settings to allow more simulataneous download/uploads to be running, so that the queuing system of uTorrent doesn't kick in.
I use Bitlord to download torrents.For me, utorrent wasn't providing me full speeds for download.Bitlord always downloads in full available speed.
LOL nah only the ones that don't seem to pick up trackers ... its still nice to see companies using them as an alternative though
so basically force start is to start the download using the default setting and restricted by our setting?