Utorrent 2.0 has been out for a few weeks now, and this new torrent client made some major changes to the way peers interact in the peer swarm. If you want to read all the details you can read the entire change-log over on the official forums: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=65482
This new torrent client version by uTorrent now gives priority to seeders with a higher connection speed. This is great news for public torrent trackers, because you will now connect to the fastest uploaders and transfer speeds should be much faster and more consistent. However, man this new torrent peer priority ranking will have a significant impact on users of private torrent sites, which require a minimum share ratio; something that many European users with low upload rates were already having a hard time with.
Depending on how you use your torrent clients and the speed of your connection, it may be worth considering staying with the earlier uTorrent 1.85 client. You can grab that at the official site, or follow this direct link: http://download.utorrent.com/1.8.5/utorrent.exe
Monday, April 5, 2010
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