Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including RSS auto-downloading, bandwidth prioritization, Mainline DHT and scheduling(compatible with BitComet).
Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification ) and peer exchange.
µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 170 KB in size.
Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple.
µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!
The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed
Here are some key features of "µTorrent":
· Multiple simultaneous downloads
· Configurable bandwidth scheduler
· Global and per-torrent speed limiting
· Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
· RSS Downloader
· Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
Requirements:
· Windows 95 users will need to install the Winsock2 Update from Microsoft for µTorrent to work correctly.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Change: enable multiple instances of the client to run on multi-user machines (e.g. fast user switching)
· Fix: fixed uTP crash in edge condition
· Fix: fixed crash when icmp.dll wouldn't contain the expected functions
· Fix: fixed crash when closing add torrent dialog while dragging a column
· Change: The Speed guide will now reject ports listed in bt.no_connect_to_services_list
· Change: add an upgrade message if a buggy version of nvLsp is detected
· Fix: don't take the total number of connections into account when connecting to trackers
· Change: increase default transfer cap to 250 GB/month
· Fix: Accounting of halfopen https connections would cause uT to stop making new connections
· Change: Made the DHT compatible with future extensions
· Fix: sometimes the &ip= parameter sent to trackers would be incorrect
· Fix: correctly order bencoded dict items in extension handshake message
· Fix: fixed holepunch error handling and support detection
· Fix: check invalid ports and IPs in the DNS reso...
Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:
· Contains third-party services unrelated to the program's functionality, intended to generate income
