is µTorrent ripped from bittorrent ???

well utorrent is faster and has more and better features of bitorrent+ the program is very tiny kept under 400kb so thats amazing compared do 5mb bitcomet and bittorrent.
I get 500kb/s downloads with utorrent so its worth it( I change some settings when I download stuff)

SOS Guys...

Im a big fan of utorrent too. However, I don't think Im getting the fastest download speed out of it. Usually, everytime I download, my speed is ranging only from 30 to 45kbs, and very very seldom 70 to 80kbps...Is this normal? Is there anyway I can increase my downloading speed more than my current/usual speed w/o increasing my bandwith?

I use the recommended settings of utorrent; I also replace the value 0 to 20 in upload speed (base on my upload test results); I also patch the net_maxhalfopen and set 80. I did also tweak my internet connection and clean my regirstry, and so on forth....but to no avail, and still stuck in 40kbps and still much persevering using utorrent just to download my favorite movies!

....what am I missing here guys? Pls help.

Oh btw, Im using windows XP w/ sp2 and dsl 384kbps. I also take into consideration the "seeds & peers" of the movie that Im downloading.

Thank U and more power 9down.

BitTorrent is a file transfer protocol belonging to the P2P class protocols like Gnutella, LimeWire, DC or ed2k (or eDonkey).

It has it's own specifications which are open to the public. So any programmer can read and implement them in their own application.

The Bittorrent application is also called a client and it's like a demo for the specifications of the technology. That doesn't mean that any other BitTorrent client is a ripoff of the Bittorent client.

Among the best clients there are:
Azureus - java based, is very stable and is future loaded but uses lots of resources... my fav
uTorrent (micro torrent) - a small BT client, packed with the base features that anyone needs, also it uses a lot of the binary support that Windows already has thus it reached a popularity for using lower resources so it's the most used
BitComet - used to be a good client until the author stopped working on features and started working on how to fake stats for the private trackers that track how much is uploaded and how much it's downloaded, the give to get rule... it can fake uTorrent and others but not Azureus so it's less liked by the private trackers admins... however they tolerate it cause the more users a community has the better but fakers that are caught are banned

Others are Mainline, FlashGet, now FreeDownloadManager, BitSpirit, BitLord and others... less used!

Yes it's normal... the speed depends on the swarm speed, that's the average speed of each peer, if you can notice it in the torrent stats it would be close to your download speed.

The speed problem is caused when the number of requesters called peers or leechers is higher than the number of fulfiller's called seeders. usually if their numbers balances the speeds improve. I got speeds close to my internet plan limit but only on some torrents. Another problems is that most ISP's offer plans with upload speeds limited to a 10th of the download speed, so for my plan I can dl with 3 Mbps but upload with only 512 Kbps (64 KB/s). If every user is limited in such way expect 100 ppl to be able to upload with only 6.25 MB/s... split that to 1000 leechers and you get only 6.4 KB/s for each leecher. Once a piece is finished that leecher starts to upload to and helps the swarm.

That's not the way you should use that... anyway, that test measures your real connection, so the results are pure informal, nothing more. The value 0 should be set for the upload speed cause bandwidth test aren't always accurate and it hurts the swarms you dl from by limiting the amount of data you can give to them in a certain period of time. So I suggest to use 0 instead.

I can guess what that means... you mean you patched the file tcpip.sys to increase the concurrent number of connections from 10 to 80 (or as much as you need) ? if not, Google: Event ID 4226 Patcher

Keep uTorrent... changing to another client won't solve the problem.

no its bittorrent ripped from utorrent

utorrent is the best

The best!!!!!
Utorrent 4ever!!!!!

Many thanks to you Pascal4...now it ease my mind to know that my download speed is just normal.

More power to you PASCAL4.

TO vcoytus

you said that you have a dsl 384kbps (for down I suppose..) - Your max theoritical rate is 48 kb/s and you get 40? you are very very lucky.. why did you expect? 1500kb/s? ahahha. Think that we never reach our theoritical rate stable. Although sometimes it gets above this rate but not for more than seconds.

Have a nice day ;}