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Trying to decide which torrent client to use can be a headache. All sorts of programs from dozens of different companies are constantly fighting for our attention, and to convince us that their client is the best to use in 2020.Sifting through all the information at our disposal takes time and effort, so it’s nice to take a focused look at a couple of our options and really get into what makes one better and the other worse. Today we’ll be taking a look at qBittorrent vs. UTorrent.Moreover, users should beware that downloading copyrighted content can get them in serious trouble.
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Oct 19, 2017 If you believe this is due to a problem in qBIttorrent and not with said other peers, feel free to submit an issue for the specific problem you observe. In general, stalling is 'bad' when you think it should not be stalling, i.e., when there is no upload/download activity but you think there should be. For example, if in similar circumstances you observe upload/download activity in another client but not.
To avoid getting caught red-handed, you should obscure your online identity by using a proxy or VPN service. Cheap and user friendly – CyberGhost offers a great server list and good P2P capabilities.After going through the comparison, we’ll have a better idea of how these clients compare, and how we can get started our content faster and safer.In order to get a good look at both of these programs, we will be going over a few different categories:.
ease of download. ease of installation. design and interface. safety and security. user ratings and reviews. speed tests on desktop and mobileSo let’s start off with the first category: ease of download. How easy is it to download qBittorrent vs uTorrent?When you visit the, you’ll find a rather ugly little page with the typical home page listing some features and asking for donations.Although the website interface isn’t the prettiest, it is easy to navigate with a tab leading directly to the “Download” section of their website.When you arrive at the download screen, you will find some public keys for the PGP signing on the various install files that the page has listed for download.
Underneath these are the download links for Mac and Windows; the Windows download links are highlighted here:Obviously, this is pretty straightforward—the website may not be pretty, but it has all the info and data you will need to install and get started with their client.As for uTorrent: When you visit the you will be met with a much sleeker website interface offering a download of “uTorrent web”, which is uTorrent’s new web-based client. This client allows you to download and stream files directly to your browser.For now, we’ll scroll down and take a look at their classic uTorrent client:Clicking on the big green “Download uTorrent Classic” button will bring up the different pay plans with various options available. Click on “Download Now” under the “Basic” plan to go with the free version. We can take a look at the different pay plans later on.As we can see, both clients have pretty straightforward websites with downloads readily available for their various clients. That being said, I’m going to give the gold to uTorrent in this category since their download link was front-and-center and their website is much easier on the eyes!uTorrent is better because of their better website and easier download.Next up is the installation.
How easy is the installation?Starting up the qBittorrent installer will give you some language options, and ask you to peruse to a license agreement.This is all pretty standard—if you check the box that says “agree” and hit next, you will be allowed to choose components and options for the install:If you want desktop or start menu shortcuts, or if you want.torrent files and magnet links to open with qBittorrent by default, select these before hitting next.Now you’ll be asked where you want to install the program:The default install folder is C:Program FilesqBittorrent. If you want the client installed somewhere else, enter a different path.Hitting “Install” will start the installation. The nice thing here was the absence of any hidden components or sketchy packaged programs.Moving on to the uTorrent installer, when you open up the.exe you’ll see a much prettier program, and a warning about illicit software:When you hit next, you’ll find a license agreement and privacy policy for uTorrent, and hitting “Agree” will take you to the next step.This is where you will want to be careful. The next page is an “optional offer” from Adaware Web Companion, and it looks just like another license agreement:We don’t want to install anything besides a torrent client, so we can just hit “Decline” to continue with the install. This will bring us to another optional offer from Avast Free Antivirus:Again, hitting “Decline” will continue the install without installing any unnecessary software.
Next, you’ll be asked if you want Start menu, Quick Launch, and Desktop icons. Hitting next from there will bring you to a few more options. We can choose to start uTorrent on Windows startup, and we have an option to associate.btsearch files as well. Hitting next will begin the install.The main problem here was the sneaky little optional installations that uTorrent tried to sneak into the package. QBittorrent will have to take the top spot for this category, since they had the decency to not pull a fast one on us.qBittorrent is better because uTorrent had too many offers and optional installations.So now that our client is installed, we can take a look at which one looks and handles better. Design and interfaceOpening up qBittorrent gives us a typical little torrent interface with tasteful minimalist icons:All the basic functions are present as buttons near the top.
You can add torrent links, add torrent files, and delete items using the first three buttons.The other controls here are pretty self explanatory; play, pause, priority controls, and settings. It’s nice to have these functions easily accessible, but there’s nothing special about the layout.The sidebar has options to sort the torrent list into status categories. Other options for tags and categories are also available, along with a list of trackers with a few different sections.It’s a very clean interface without any extra stuff sitting around anywhere. So now that we’ve gone over all the features and other concerns, let’s take a look at what people are saying about qBittorrent vs. User ratingsTaking a look at the android app store, we can see what people are saying about the mobile apps for qBittorrent vs. UTorrent.qBittorrent has a relatively low average user review, at 3.7 stars for its free version, and 4.1 for its paid ad-free version.The pro version also has only 1k+ downloads, compared to 100k+ for the free version. Looking at the user reviews for the free app, some are positive, but a large amount (6 within the first ten user reviews) of users are saying that the app has trouble connecting or pairing with the desktop app.Moving on to uTorrent, we can see that the user reviews are much more favorable, and it’s one of the most downloaded apps in the entire Play Store:The user reviews themselves mention some issues, such as the app not being able to run properly in the background, as well as complaining about the amount of ads in the free version.uTorrent has better (and much more) reviews.
Which is faster? QBittorrent vs uTorrentOne of the most important qualities that a good torrent client boils down to is the speed.
How fast is qBittorrent vs. UTorrent?We’ve taken a look at both clients’ speed by downloading the same file. It’s an.mp4 video file about 307MB in size.Here we can see the file downloading in qBittorrent:The download averaged about 13.5MiB/s with one seed connected. This is quite fast, and it finished in less than a minute. Overall, users will probably be very happy with this speed, although it may perform differently with different security settings.The mobile client for qBittorrent is simply a controller which allows you to remotely manage the torrents on your computer. Since the speeds for the app will be the same as the desktop client, let’s move on and take a look at uTorrent:As you can see, the test turned out significantly slower, at 2.7MB/s on average during the screenshot. It ended up with an average of 5.3MB/s, and took around two minutes to complete.
While the difference in speed with qBittorrent vs. UTorrent wasn’t very noticeable with this file, it was significant.Users downloading larger files or files with less reliable seeds would definitely prefer the speed of qBittorrent. Let’s take a look at uTorrent’s mobile app and see how the speeds compare:As you can see with the uTorrent mobile app, the speeds were much more comparable to the qBittorrent desktop client.
The download seemed to average about 11.5 MB/s. The mobile app has a few advertisements, but it was easy to use and worked very well, although it was hard to find data like the average speed for the completed download.This category will have to go to uTorrent hands-down due to it’s easy-to-use mobile app and relative speed capabilities.uTorrent provides a better mobile experience with great speeds.
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Many popular BitTorrent clients such as uTorrent/BitTorrent, BitComet and Vuze can work right out of the box. Download, install, load a torrent file and it’ll start downloading, provided any needed. If you don’t tweak the configurations, most probably it’ll take you longer to complete downloading the torrent because the default configuration might not be very well optimized for your router or internet connection.A slow to finish downloading game, movie or file from a torrent is not really a big problem. The biggest problem you’ll probably encounter is when someone else is on the network and your computer is downloading a torrent. Quite often all of sudden the internet connection will seem like it’s been cut off as if someone is using and there are problems browsing the web, Skype or your messenger program disconnects etc. Pinging the router could well give a “Request time out” error message.This problem happens both with a modem and router.
To get back the connection, you might need to disconnect and reconnect the internet connection, restart the router or even reboot the computer if the problem is really bad. Restarting the router is not a good solution because when the torrent detects a connection and starts downloading, the connection gets killed again.There are ways to configure a torrent client such as uTorrent, BitComet, Bitfrost or Vuze so that if you’re having similar problems, your internet won’t get disconnected while downloading torrents. This happens mainly because there is a large number of connections that BitTorrent utilizes is stressing out your router/modem. The default settings in a BitTorrent client are sometimes providing more connections than some modems/routers can handle. Since many of us are actually using the free and cheap modems or routers such as the provided by our ISP, we have to lower the global connections in the BitTorrent Client. Change the Connections in BitComet1. Go to Tools and select Options (or press CTRL+P) to bring up the preference options.2.
Go to Advanced and click on “network.maxconnections”.3. Change the value from 0 (unlimited) to a more usable connection number (100) in the “Value:” box below, then click Apply.Change the Connections in Frostwire1. Click on the Tools menu and go to Options, expand the Bittorrent tree and select Advanced.2. Change the value in “Global maximum number of connections” to your desired vale, thankfully the default isn’t set that high to start with at 100.You’ll find more connection setting for some popular torrent clients on Page 2. I did a lot of research and came up with a simple solution which would solve the problem of 80% of the people.First will post Solution then my story if anyone is interested:DSOLUTION:Try downloading a previous version of Torrent. Example 2.2.1. Which solved my problem.
Its just around 300kb. Google it or use your existing torrent to download the previous version I used Kickass torrent to get this version.My Problem –I never had problem with torrenting before until I got a new laptop in my Office, I downloaded the latest torrent thinking I’d have the best-in-class software.Only while torrenting my laptop’s network adapter shows yellow! And the internet stops working.I use wifi on my laptop and it stops working, while other people’s wifi and lan network still workes perfectly.Temp SolutionI right click the wifi icon on the start menu shortcut and troubleshoot – It says DNS did not respond.I go to my network setting click on my connected wifi and click Diagnose – It will reset adapter and the wifi will start working again.But if my torrent is still on it will again stop working in 2-3 mins.Just manage to get a previous stable version of torrent and it will work flawlessly.
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I had same problem (internet disconnects while torrenting). This problem only started for me when I switched to fiber service from ADSL and changed ISP and my router as well. So initially i couldn’t understand if it was my ISP or my router or the NTU Device which my ISP installed for me.After lot of elimination tests i found that disconnection was only happening when I was torrenting (and particularly torrenting through transmission client on my Centos machine). This solution didn’t help me at all actually!:( As soon as i change the value as you showed, it works for 3-4minutes and then stops working again, till i lower the value again! I started with 100, then 50 and now 20 and again it stopped working after a couple minutes Should i keep lowering the value? I don’t think that trying out 10 or 5 would help much, i fear my problem is entirely something else Any ideas?Thanks anyway.PS: Interestingly enough, i had to disable my utorrent in order to post this simple message!
This is very useful information. I have a litte curiosum to add.
I see a lot of people that complains that utorrent (or other torrent-client) seems to make their Cable Modem/Router crash/reset all the time. I suddenly had that problem after years of torrent DL’ing. I tried for days to figure out what I might have changed. I checked if my router settings had somehow been reset to factory default making my port forwarding disappear, but everything seemed to be exactly as it should be.
Then suddenly I remembered, that the separate computer that I use for torrent downloads only had been disconnected a couple of weeks ago, and even though I’ve remembered to forward the Network Port on it’s MAC adress, I suddenly remembered that I have two Network ports on my computer mounted right next to each other and when I reconnected my computer I put my RJ-45 cable in the wrong port, thereby connecting the computer with a MAC adress that hadn’t been forwarded in my router settings. When I put the Ethernet cable back into the other slot everything worked fine again.I’m only mentioning this as a possible solution to all of you out there that may also use a computer with two network cards mounted, and might have moved the RJ-45 cable to the wrong port. It took me two weeks to figure out that the solution was this simple.
This experience may spare some of you several days of headache.I really like your article. It is very clever and nicely written. Took me a long time before I started looking for a solution to the router cutting out only while downloading via Utorrent. I thought it was my ISP cutting off torrent downloads automatically and it pissed me off.Now I find out that its just a Modem Error from to many connections I just switched to 100 connections and am hoping for the best. It seems that the connection has improved now also.Thanks very much for the info it makes my life much better, basically allows me to use Utorrent reliably again which is awesome. I’m very happy.
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