Long gone are the days of DC++ and similar file-sharing systems. Peer to Peer sharing is the fastest way to transfer data over the internet, and to make good use of it, you need a client to match. You wouldn’t expect a 1MB app to be up to the challenge, but uTorrent proves us wrong. Here’s why uTorrent continues to be the most popular free download P2P file sharing app in the world:
uTorrent gets constant updates, ever increasing its performance levels and stability. It has extremely customizable settings that can be tweaked to get the most out of your bandwidth. With recent updates, you don’t even need to modify anything to get the best speeds, default ports and settings usually work wonders and provide download speeds on par with your bandwidth. The more you have, the faster uTorrent will download files, assuming of course your hard drive is up to the task of copying data and there are plenty of seeders on the torrent file you’re trying to download. At times, I was forced to limit uTorrent’s download speeds because they were rendering my hard-drive useless while a file download was in progress. It can even put a quality SSD drive on its knees if you have sufficient bandwidth. Despite this, uTorrent takes extremely little resources to run, so leaving it open in the background won’t affect your computer’s performance.
uTorrent is available as a free download, and to make a profit, the developer uses ads within the program. These are nowhere near being bothersome, as their size is extremely limited, and unless you’re looking for them specifically, you won’t really notice them at all. The only real problem with using uTorrent doesn’t come from the app itself, but rather the source of the torrent files. It’s hard to find reliable platforms for peer to peer sharing on the internet, and recent titans such as ThePirateBay or Mininova have been under close federal scrutiny lately, so I recommend you avoid these altogether. Of course, if the files you are downloading are not copyright protected, you have nothing to worry about.
Overall, uTorrent provides a very pleasant experience for such a simple app. With a little over a mega-byte in overall installation size and requiring very little space on your hard drive, it’s by far the best torrent client available for a free download out there. Whatever issues it had in the past have been solved by now, and the stability of the app is astonishing. uTorrent also has a free download available on the Google Play Store, so if you want to download files on your Android smartphone or tablet and have the necessary space, you can use it just as easily.