Why is utorrent best torrent client ?

Utorrent is considered as best bittorent download program by many torrent users. Although a closed source software, it has many fans. First and foremost it is small in "size" and eats minimal computer resources in comparison with other clients. Consequently it doesn't affect the computer speed.

Its free and the most feature rich BitTorrent client available.

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From Mininova .Fan's Guide

Trivia: The author of µTorrent wrote in 2005, "I usually say 'you torrent' because it looks like a u", and offered "microtorrent", "mytorrent" and latter "mutorrent" as candidate pronunciations.The symbol μ, which is actually the small Greek letter Mu, stands for the SI prefix "micro" meaning one one-millionth and refers to the program's small footprint.

For Further Reading
Torrentz: Meta search Engine
Utorrent Skins
DHT in Utorrent
Super-seeding in Utorrent
Bittorent Terminology
What are Seeds and Peers?

How to Download Torrents?

In order to make easy for people to understand how to download torrents from Bittorent clients in Windows or Mac. I decided to add a small video I found. Hope you find it useful. You can use the steps shown in video while downloading latest quality torrents from any of the top torrent sites.

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From Mininova Fan's Tips.

I feel you would like the below articles interesting as well as helpful in your quest for good torrents and related information about bittorent.

What are torrents?
Best torrent Sites
Seeds, peers, Leechers etc in bittorrents
Is downloading from Mininova illegal?
Torrent Help
Utorrent : Torrent program for Mac and Windows
Torrentz : Torrent meta-search engine
BTJunkie
Create and Upload torrent files

What is a tracker in Torrents?

A BitTorrent tracker is a service on the internet that assists in the communication between BitTorrent clients. When you open a torrent file, your machine contacts the tracker and asks for a list of seeds and leechers to connect to.

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A Bit Torrent tracker centrally coordinates the P2P transfer of files among users.
Tracker software serves up torrent files for download from a Web site. The tracker maintains information about all BitTorrent clients utilizing each torrent. Specifically, the tracker identifies the network location of each client either uploading or downloading the P2P file associated with a torrent. It also tracks which fragment(s) of that file each client possesses, to assist in efficient data sharing between clients.

Utorrent

uTorrent is the one of the most popular BitTorrent clients. Why? It has most of the present in other BitTorrent clients but is very light-weight. µTorrent is very efficient and unlike other torrent clients,it doesn't "eat up" system resources typically uses less than 6MB of memory, making you feel as if it weren't there at all. And best thing is its download file is less than 220 KB in size. Go Ahead Download Utorrent.

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What is the best torrent downloader for a mac?

Searching for best torrent program for Mac.

µtorrent doesn't work on macbook, I suggest vuze (azureus) or transmission. I am sure they are best torrent client available for Macbook.
You can also try Xtorrent is all about search. Type keywords in and the results show up right in Xtorrent.


Also These are top best bittorent clients for mac.
Update: Now there is utorrent for Mac.

I don't recommend BitThief for torrent users.

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What are seeds and leechers (peers) in torrents?

Number of seeds and leechers (peers) play an important role in determining the download speed of torrent file. So what exactly is meaning of torrents (bittorrent, utorrent) seeds and leechers?

What are seeds?
A seed is a client that has a complete copy of the data of a certain torrent. Once your BitTorrent client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button (or otherwise close it). This is known as being a seed or seeding.

What are leechers?
A leecher is a client that is currently downloading the data of a torrent. A leecher does not have the complete file, otherwise it would be called a seed.

Conclusion:
Seeds have the complete file and are actively sharing ... peers are downloading the file and have part of it and usually are sharing pieces also ... high numbers of each are best for speed ... low numbers of seeds and high peers will make it slow .. low numbers on each will make it slow ......

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Caution:
If a file has 0 seeders or a vast amount more leechers/peers than seeders then it is a risk of a virus, if possible it is best to view any comments associated with the file first. Don't be fooled by torrents with more or most seeds and peers.

More for experts:

Leech:
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an egoistic person who downloads a file using P2P technology, and who does NOT share (enough) with others when in possession of the complete file, reducing it's Availability. Normally in BitTorrent, it is polite and considerate to leave your connection open long after you finish downloading to seed - so that other peers in the swarm, who do NOT yet have the complete file yet, benefit from you sharing, as you did benefit from others sharing when you originally downloaded the torrent. Some share more, some share less, but a leech is somebody who closes their connection as soon as they have downloaded the complete file. In the long run, your total Share Ratio (Tools > Statistics > Transfers Tab) should always be >1.000!








Seed:
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a peer who has 100% of the torrent and is only uploading to other peers. Seed is also used as a verb, as in "I'm going to be seeding this file overnight", meaning leave open and available for other users to download. Usually, a person with the whole file is a 'seed', while someone with a partial amount is a peer. Remember that a seed is not a file server. We're not talking about "magic seeds" here, so get any idea like that out of your mind. Connecting to more seeds does not necessarily mean that you'll finish downloading any faster. If you don't connect to all the seeds in a swarm, or even if you don't connect to any seeds, it does not mean Azureus is doing anything wrong. For any random torrent, you might download faster when connected only to 5 other peers and no seeds than you might with some other random torrent while connected to 50 seeds and no other peers. Seeding torrents improves your Share Ratio.

So, go ahead enjoy the file-sharing experience with Mininova after having a good knowledge about what are leechers and seeds in torrentz?
Which country downloads the most torrents
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